Devotions

Begin Your Day in Prayer

Sign up to receive our daily devotions straight to your inbox. It's the best way to begin.

{formbuilder:MTAxMDE1}

Loving your daily devo email? Feeling a tug to talk about the devotions with friends? Join us on the BIS app. We read the devotions together every day, and share our takeaways with each other. It’s the best, and completely free. We’d love to see you there.

Serving God

Serving God

First Reading: Romans 6:12-18 Brothers and sisters: Sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires. And do not present the parts of your bodies...
October 21, 2015
Grace Overflows

Grace Overflows

First Reading: Romans 5:12, 15B, 17-19, 20B-21 Brothers and sisters: Through one man sin entered the world, and through sin, death, and thus death came to all men, inasmuch as...
October 20, 2015
He Knows What You're Going Through

He Knows What You're Going Through

First Reading: Isaiah 53:10-11 The LORD was pleased to crush him in infirmity. If he gives his life as an offering for sin, he shall see his descendants in a...
October 18, 2015
Don't Pull a Peter. Be a Stephen.

Don't Pull a Peter. Be a Stephen.

First Reading: Romans 4:13, 16-18 Brothers and sisters: It was not through the law that the promise was made to Abraham and his descendants that he would inherit the world,...
October 17, 2015
God Sees Us

God Sees Us

First Reading: Romans 4;1-8 Brothers and sisters: What can we say that Abraham found, our ancestor according to the flesh? Indeed, if Abraham was justified on the basis of his...
October 16, 2015
Being the Hands and Feet of Christ

Being the Hands and Feet of Christ

First Reading: Romans 3:21-30 Brothers and sisters: Now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, though testified to by the law and the prophets, the righteousness...
October 15, 2015
#knockitoff

#knockitoff

First Reading: Romans 2:1-11 You, O man, are without excuse, every one of you who passes judgment. For by the standard by which you judge another you condemn yourself, since...
October 14, 2015
Cleansing the Heart

Cleansing the Heart

First Reading: Romans 1:16-25 Brothers and sisters: I am not ashamed of the Gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first,...
October 13, 2015
Making Time for Our Lord

Making Time for Our Lord

First Reading: Wisdom 7:7-11 I prayed, and prudence was given me; I pleaded, and the spirit of wisdom came to me. I preferred her to scepter and throne, and deemed...
October 11, 2015
Growing Closer to Jesus Through Mary

Growing Closer to Jesus Through Mary

First Reading: Joel 4:12-21 Thus says the LORD: Let the nations bestir themselves and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there will I sit in judgment upon all...
October 10, 2015
There’s No Such Thing as Neutral

There’s No Such Thing as Neutral

First Reading: Joel 1:13-15;2:1-2 Gird yourselves and weep, O priests! wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! The house of...
October 09, 2015
Atlas, We Are Not

Atlas, We Are Not

First Reading: Malachi 3:13-20B You have defied me in word, says the LORD, yet you ask, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “It is vain to serve...
October 08, 2015