Dr. Roger D. Duke

One who is looking to God to fulfill the God shaped vacuum in the heart. Am I Looking To God? By Oswald Chambers Look to Me, and be saved… — Isaiah 45:22 Do we expect God to come to us with His blessings and save us? He says, “ Look to Me , and be saved….” The greatest difficulty spiritually is to concentrate on God, and His blessings are what make it so difficult. Troubles almost always make us look to God, but His blessings tend to divert our attention elsewhere. The basic

Confession of Christ to Christ is tantamount to Repentance towards God and placing your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ! Confession is Good for the Soul! Especially when you confess your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ! I John 1:9   If we confess our sins [1] (Gill’s writings are in the Public Domain.) Not to one other; for though it is our duty to confess our faults to our fellow creatures and fellow Christians which are committed against them, yet are under no obligation to c

A picture showing computer security, but there is no security but in God's Christ--Who is the Alpha and Omega--the Beginning and the End! Yesterday By Oswald Chambers You shall not go out with haste,…for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. — Isaiah 52:12 Security from Yesterday. “…God requires an account of what is past” ( Ecclesiastes 3:15 ). At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anx

If you are a Christian, you have a privilege of being a Child of the King and will Rule and Reign with Him! AMEN! Privileges O LORD GOD, Teach me to know that grace precedes, accompanies, and follows my salvation, that it sustains the redeemed soul, that not one link of its chain can ever break. From Calvary’s cross wave upon wave of grace reaches me, deals with my sin, washes me clean, renews my heart, strengthens my will, draws out my affection, kindles a flame in my soul,

The symbol of the Southern Rebellion. A Devotional for Saturday January 17, 2025 Am I a Rebel? “But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken” Isaiah 1:20. Then I was struck into a very great trembling. So much that at times I could, for whole days together, feel my very body, as well as my mind, to shake and totter under the sense of the dreadful judgment of God. This should fall on those that have sinned that most fearful

Isaiah answering GOD'S call to go and prophesy to Judah for God! The Voice of the Nature of God By Oswald Chambers I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” — Isaiah 6:8 When we talk about the call of God, we often forget the most important thing, namely, the nature of Him who calls. There are many things calling each of us today. Some of these calls will be answered, and others will not even be heard. The call is the expression of th

One who is rejoicing "In the Lord"! A Colloquy on Rejoicing REMEMBER, O MY SOUL, It is thy duty and privilege to rejoice in God: He requires it of thee for all his favours of grace. Rejoice then in the Giver and his goodness, Be happy in him, O my heart, and in nothing but God, for whatever a man trusts in, from that he expects happiness. He who is the ground of thy faith should be the substance of thy joy. Whence then comes heaviness and dejection, when joy is sown in thee,

The dove, the symbol of True Christianity! True Christianity! A Devotional for the Fourth Day of the Week Morning LORD OF HEAVEN, Thy goodness is inexpressible and in conceivable. In the works of creation thou art almighty, In the dispensations of providence all-wise, In the gospel of grace all love, And in thy Son thou hast provided for our deliverance from the effects of sin, the justification of our persons, the sanctification of our natures, the perseverance of our souls

Have You Ever Been Alone with God? By Oswald Chambers Moses alone with God in the cleft of the rock, after he asked God to be able to see him. When He was alone…the twelve asked Him about the parable. — Mark 4:10 His Solitude with Us. When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship— when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even on

A sacrificial lamb about to be burned for the atonement for sins. Christ is our sacrifice. A Devotional for Monday January 12, 2025 From the Pen of John Bunyan author of Pilgrim's Progress Peace through Christ’s Blood “. . . and through him [Christ] to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven making peace by the blood of his cross” Colossians 1: 20. I remember that one day, as I was traveling into the country and musing on the wickedness and blasphemy of

Who or what is influencing your thought life? A Devotional Thought for Friday January 9, from the Pen of John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress. An Uneasy Conscience “A man’s spirit will endure sickness but a crushed spirit who can bear” Proverbs 18:14. Further, in these days I should find my heart to shut itself up against the Lord. Against his Holy Word. I have found my unbelief to set, as it were, the shoulder to the door to keep him out. And when I have with many a bi

This one has heard Christ's call to follow him on His path and clings to, trusts in, and relies on Him! The Fourth Day of the Week Morning Devotional: True Christianity LORD OF HEAVEN, Thy goodness is inexpressible and inconceivable. In the works of creation thou art almighty, In the dispensations of providence all-wise, In the gospel of grace all love, And in thy Son thou hast provided for our deliverance from the effects of sin, the justification of our persons, the sanctif

You can lock up belongings, but that does not give a security of the heart and life! Yesterday By Oswald Chambers You shall not go out with haste,…for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. Isaiah 52:12 Security from Yesterday. “…God requires an account of what is past” ( Ecclesiastes 3:15 ). At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise when we remember our yesterdays. O

“JESUS is THE GLORY and SIMPLICITY of the GOSPEL!” (Used by Permission.) Please enjoy the “GOSPEL” as found in “The Leather Journal” of Pastor Phil Newton of South Woods Baptist Church. Other ministries can be found at https://www.southwoodsbc.org/ This is presented by “The Inverted Christian” blog located at https://www.invertedchristian.com/ We exist to meet your spiritual needs through different presentations of the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ. Contact us if we can be

A rendering of the French ocean liner SS Ville du Havre. The ship in which Spafford's family was traveling when struck by another ship and his daughters perished. This is the Anniversary of Horatio Spafford's Loss of His Daughter's which was the Emphasis for Writing of This Hymn! “A Shipwreck, A Poem, A Song, A Testimony” “It Is Well With My Soul!” (Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHe_qmo3gX4 ) First Verse: When peace,

Moses Showing God's Law To the Hebrew Nation The Devotional for the Eighteenth Day of the December From the Pen of Rev. Dr. John Gill John 1: 17 For the law was given by Moses [1]   Both moral and ceremonial [laws were given by Moses]. The moral law was given to Adam, in innocence, which having been broken, and almost lost out of the minds, and memories of men, was given by Moses, in a new edition of it in writing; and points out what is man's duty both to God and men; discov

A Devotional Thought for March 19, 2025 From the Pen of John Bunyan Author of Pilgrim's Progress "The Time is at Hand"! “. . . the day of Christ is at hand” 2 Thessalonians 2: 2 (KJV). [One] . . . reason why those that fear God should so manage their time and work for God in this world: That they may not have [some] part to do when they should be departing this life. It is, because loitering in your work does as much as in it lies, defer, and holds back the second coming of o

An April 29 Devotional   “Reasons Why Baptists Ought to Teach Their Distinctive Views” [1]   T o teach our distinctive views is a duty we owe to other fellow-Christians . Take the Roman Catholics. We are often told very earnestly that Baptists must make common cause with other Protestants against the aggressions of Romanism. It is urged, especially in some localities, that we ought to push all our denominational differences into the background and stand shoulder to shoulder a

Christ on His Eternal Throne! Will you be with Him? A point to ponder. Revelation 21:6 And he said unto me, it is done   [1] The end of all things is come; it is all over with the first heaven and earth; these are no more, and the new heaven and earth are finished: there seems to be an allusion to the old creation, he spake, and it was done, Psalms 33:9. The whole election of grace is completed; every individual vessel of mercy is called by grace; all the saints are brought

You can "execute" sin in your life by the Holy Spirit, or God will execute your because of your sin! “Be Killing Sin or It Will Be Killing You” [1] : Rhetorical Insights Into John Owen’s “Mortification of Sin in Believers” [ 2]   Introduction, Thesis, and Outline          There has been many words uttered and much ink spilled at this conference about John Owen—the man and his ministry. Nearly as much as he depleted in his own expositions of the Scriptures and theological writ