Devotional

https://allsaintsparishchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/050120-gracious-obedience-devotional.mp3 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” (John 14:15) The Scripture teaches that it is by God’s grace (unmerited favor) that we are saved. By grace, we are forgiven and regenerated, and by grace we persevere through life. Apart from God’s grace, we would remain under His condemnation. Our entire lives, therefore, are lived in a state of grace. This devotional is about two of the primary implications of our salvation by grace. First, the blessing of ...

https://allsaintsparishchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/042420-He-Cares-for-You.mp3 He Cares for You The Bible gives us directions concerning how we are to handle our worries. For example, in one of His many exhortations to the disciples, Jesus addressed this issue: “. . . do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?” (Matt. 6:25) The ...

For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it passes by, or as a watch in the night. (Psalm 90:4) In Genesis 8, we read about the end of Noah’s experience in the ark. For more than a year, Noah and his passengers endured all the trials and tribulations that you might imagine would arise in such a situation. When the day came, however, for Noah and company to relieve the ark, his first inclination was not ...

  SATURDAY Women at tomb (Mt. 27:61; Mk. 15:47; Mk. 23:55, 56) Guard (Mt. 27:62-66) Jesus' body lay in its tomb, where it was guarded by Roman soldiers throughout the day on Saturday, which was the Sabbath. When the Sabbath ended at 6 p.m., Christ's body was ceremonially treated for burial with spices purchased by Nicodemus: Nicodemus, like Joseph of Arimathea, was a member of the Sanhedrin, the court that had condemned Jesus Christ to death. For a time, both ...

  FRIDAY Before Pilate (Mt. 27:2, 11-14; Mk. 15:1-5; Lk. 23:1-5; Jn. 18:28-38) Before Herod (Lk. 23:6-12) Return to Pilate (Mt. 27:15-26; Mk. 15;6-15; Lk. 23:13-25; Jn. 18:39-19;16) Mockery (Mt. 27:27-30; Mk. 15:16-19) To Calvary (Mt. 27:31-34; Mk. 15:20-23; Lk. 23:26-32; Jn. 19:16, 17) Crucifixion (Mt. 27: 35-56; Mk. 15:24-41; Lk. 23:33-49; Jn. 19:18-30) Burial (Mt. 27:57-60; Mk. 15:42-46; Lk. 23:50-54; Jn. 19:31-42) Good Friday is the most difficult day of Holy Week. Christ's journey turned treacherous and acutely painful ...