The Real Reason

1 John 3:4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. (NKJV) (Previous devotionals can be found at https://www.seriousfaith.com/)As Christians, we sometimes speak in terms, phrases and concepts that the unsaved don’t have a clue about....

Does the Bible Really Say That?

Jeremiah 23:29 “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? (NKJV) (Previous devotionals can be found at www.seriousfaith.com)There are many sayings, or phrases, that we use that are not in Scripture. Sometimes it is...

Bad Lamps

Luke 11:34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness. (NKJV) (Previous devotionals can be found at www.seriousfaith.com)Jesus had just told the...

Come, Hear, Do

Luke 6:47 Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: (NKJV) (Previous devotionals can be found at www.seriousfaith.com)The wise man built his house upon the rock… The wise man built his house upon the...

Rejoice In This

Luke 10:20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” (NKJV) (Previous devotionals can be found at www.seriousfaith.com)It’s great to be a Christian. There are so many...

It Cant Mean That!

2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (NKJV) (Previous devotionals can be found at www.seriousfaith.com)Believers of all walks, all maturity levels and all...

Hey, Stupid!

Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid. (NKJV) (Previous devotionals can be found at www.seriousfaith.com)Growing up, we’d get a whuppin’ for calling someone stupid. Deep down I always knew I had...

A Genuine Imitation

1 Corinthians 11:1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ. (NKJV) (Previous devotionals can be found at www.seriousfaith.com)”Imitation” usually means one of two things for us today: either it is something fake in the place of the real thing or it is...

Me First

3 John 9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. (NKJV) (Previous devotionals can be found at www.seriousfaith.com)Within a few short years, the early church was already seeing many of the problems that...

In Jesus

A honest prayer of thankfulness for Jesus Omniscient God, You truly know my heart,You know my motives and my character,You see more uncleanness in my supposed goodness than I have ever seen in the worst of my sins. Compared to you, nothing is holy, Not the heavens,...