This week in our Simple Bible Reading Plan, we arrive at Luke 2, a chapter so familiar to many believers that we risk hearing it with Christmas ears only. However, Luke 2 is far more than a seasonal Christmas story. It serves as a theological anchor, a human story, and a divine interruption all in one. LukeContinue reading “Saturday in the Word | When Glory Entered Quietly”
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The Devotional Guy™ is a blog written by Rainer Bantau helping Christians think biblically and live purposefully in a complex and changing world.
Happy New Year. Don’t Forget to Put on the Armor of God.
The calendar turned and a new year showed up right on time. Fresh pages and clean slates tend to make us hopeful. We set intentions, choose a word for the year, sketch out plans, and reimagine a version of ourselves that is a little wiser, a little steadier, and maybe even a little braver thanContinue reading “Happy New Year. Don’t Forget to Put on the Armor of God.”
Who is close to you but far from God?
We all have people in our lives who sit at tables with us, share our laughter, and know our stories. Yet, they feel worlds away from God. They aren’t strangers.They’re family.Friends.Coworkers.People we love deeply. And that’s what makes this question so uncomfortable. Because it’s always easier to talk about those people out there than these people right here.Continue reading “Who is close to you but far from God?”
