The angel answered, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God' (Luke 1:35).In Charles Dickens' classic sto...

The record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:1).The Book of Matthew begins most inauspiciously—with a genealogy, a list of names. The list, though scarcely read by most, serves as an i...

Transitioning from one year to the next gives us a great opportunity to step back and evaluate where we've been and where we may be going. In the first of two year-end youth group devos, our Bible guru helps yo...

Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24). The weeks leading up to Christmas are filled with activity and busyness, especially in the church. There are service...

"Jesus asked, 'Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?'" (Luke 17:17-19).Here on this Thanksgiving weekend we are reminded o...

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son" (John 3:16).Youth ministry is tough because we often are called to love unloveable kids. Many years ago in my first youth ministry job, I disc...

"Now the body is not made up of one part, but of many" (1 Corinthians 12:14).When I was in college, I had a friend who was a pre-med student. In one corner of his apartment hung a full-sized plastic skeleton, c...

Have you ever wondered if you could pass God's smell test? Did you know He had a smell test?Follow your nose through the passages below. Each time you see a reference to smell, note who is doing the smelling an...

"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent and praiseworthy—think about such things" (Philippians 4...

The BackdropGod reveals. It's what He does, and He revealed Himself in one sure-fire way for us to know Him: through His Word.The WhatThis devo is fairly simple. Each passage below is from a different era of Go...