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Devotions that Resonate Truth
by Nate Ayres
Short reflections on biblical truths resonate in our minds and souls, amplifying our true devotion to God.
Episodes
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Is This What Winning Feels Like?
I heard a great sermon a few weeks ago. There was an illustration that encouraged me and gave me hope—but challenged me that often my feelings don’t tell me the truth. The preacher reminded us we have three types of real enemies: our own sinful heart, the world, but also the evil, demonic horde.…
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See Your Words with New Eyes
There’s a well-known proverb that talks about the words we use. You heard it on the playground as a kid. Maybe you came crying into the house and your parents tried to encourage you with this proverb. It goes like this - sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.…
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Is Your Soul Thirsty?
God wrote the Bible, through men, over thousands of years. It covers hundreds of topics, but has one overarching goal—to show us who God is, how much we need him, and how to find him and then follow him. God is the perfect author, and he knows us perfectly. He wants to save and care for our…
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Don’t Let Them Get To You
You know the scene well. You’ve seen it in countless movies, whether comedies or dramas. Someone is being a jerk. They’re real proud of themselves, too. Maybe they are bullying the main character or breaking all the rules and laughing about it. But then, as the audience, we see the authority…
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Disappointment and Faith
The gavel comes down with a crash. The judgment is rendered, final. Nothing and no one can overturn it now. After staring ahead for years, with vacant eyes, at inevitable, solitary confinement, I can’t believe that the echoing report of the gavel is ringing the news… of… my release, not my...
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Healthy Competition
I love well-made things, especially when they are doing what they were designed to do. Don’t you? Picture a balanced, razor-sharp chef’s knife cutting slices of tomato; a lifted off-road vehicle crawling through a boulder field; a fine musical instrument, like a guitar, resonating with all the...
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Do You Want to Walk on Water?
I hope so, because one of my all-time favorite true stories in the bible is the story of Jesus walking on the surface of the Sea of Galilee, and Peter getting out of his boat to also walk on water. I’ll read you the story in a minute, but here are a few reasons I love it. First, I’m a chemistry…
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Roots, Leaves, & Fruit
Roots aren’t pretty, are they? Nor are they even visible when they are doing what they are supposed to do. Dirty, unseen, gnarled things. And yet it is the investment in the root that allows any life at all, but especially healthy growth and beautiful leaves and fruit. You may think I've spent…
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The Prince's Bride (Part 2)
Welcome back for the second half of my short story, The Prince's Bride, where we find out what happens to Sophia after she finds that a disease has begun spreading over her hands and arms.
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The Prince's Bride (Part 1)
I'm excited to share something a bit different today - the first part of the short story I wrote for my daughter, Sophia. I wanted to write a fun and exciting fictional story that resonates the truth of the gospel and all that is ours in Jesus, so that she could come back to these pictures of the...
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What is Your Net Worth?
In Junior High and High School we begin asking ourselves the lifelong question, “What is my net worth, as a human?” We continue to ask ourselves this question and the only difference between a middle-aged person and a high schooler is that we picked something many years ago to hang our worth on....
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My Portion Forever
Psalm 73:23-26 Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the…
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Is There Enough For Me?
Mark 8:1-2, 6-9 In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, [Jesus] called his disciples to him and said to them, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.” And he directed the crowd to sit down…
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Imagine Everything Made New
Revelation 21:3-5a And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more…
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You Are My Friends
John 15:13-15 NLT There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. There…
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Slaves to Sin or Righteousness
Romans 6:16-17, 20-22 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become...
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While We Were Still Weak
Romans 5:6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. While we were...
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He Gave His Life A Ransom For Many (Part 2)
Mark 10:42-45 And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and…
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He Gave His Life A Ransom For Many (Part 1)
Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. The picture of God offering Jesus as a ransom for many is one of the most powerful, illustrated truths in the Bible. So, I want us to lower our buckets down into the well twice, to...
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Foolishness or Wisdom and Power?
1 Corinthians 1:17 – 25 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For...
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Welcome to the Family
1 John 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! The letter of 1 John is very different from other letters in the new testament, like Romans or Galatians. The author, John, doesn’t step us through a linear argument or truth. Instead, he…
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There Is One Mediator
1 Timothy 2:5-6 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. Verse 5 makes very clear that there aren’t many Gods, there is one God, a single God to all humans.…
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The Word Became Human
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. The first two gospels (Matthew and Mark) were written between 50-60 AD. Then Luke came after, around 60-61 AD. Matthew and Luke give us our...
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To Present Us Holy and Blameless
Colossians 1:15, 19-22 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. [In] him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And you, who once were...
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Rich In Mercy (Part 2)
Ephesians 2:1-7 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying...
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Rich In Mercy (Part 1)
Ephesians 2:1-7 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying...
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Christ Reconciled Us To Himself
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to...
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The Lie We Keep Falling For
Romans 5:20-21 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. We humans are suckers for the one, most…
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Sent By His Father
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. This is one of the simplest verses in the Bible. It has no big words and can be understood by a child on its first reading. There are two people mentioned in this simple verse - a father and…
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The Love of Christ Surpasses Knowledge
Ephesians 3:18-19 That you, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. How do you capture the infinite dimensions of the love...
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No Longer Under A Curse
Galatians 3:10, 13 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is...
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He Rescued Me From The Pit
Psalm 40:1-2 I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. I opened my eyes to utter darkness. It was incredibly quiet. I was unable to tell where I was,...
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He Himself Bore Our Sins
1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. He bore our sins. He bore their weight. We are all familiar with this concept – carrying a bag of concrete, or a heavy tool, or moving a friend’s...
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God Has Bigger Plans For You
2 Corinthians 12:8-10 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me....
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He Emptied Himself
Philippians 2:5-9 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form…
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Why Devotions?
I want to tell you why I'm excited to share these devotions with you. There’s a special time, usually in the morning, when mist rolls into a valley and rests like a thick and heavy blanket over a sleeping landscape. It is beautiful and serene to behold, but it is fragile, so you have to rise a...
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Short reflections on biblical truths resonate in our minds and souls, amplifying our true devotion to God.
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Nate Ayres
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