Dr. Roger D. Duke

The Key to the Master’s Orders By Oswald Chambers (This devotional adapted from https://utmost.org/modern-classic/the-key-to-the-masters-orders/ by webmaster Dr. Roger D Duke.) The Key to the Master’s Orders: Prayer. We Are To Pray for The LORD To Thrust Out Laborers Into His Vineyard. Do You Pray Or Have You Been Thrust Out?! He is Sovereign Over All Missionaries; Even Us! Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. Matthew 9

Law and Gospel (or Law and Grace) is one of a number of thematically linked, allegorical panel paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder from about 1529. The paintings, intended to illustrate Lutheran ideas of salvation, are exemplars of Lutheran Merkbilder,[1] which were simple, didactic illustrations of Christian doctrine. LAW and the GOSPEL A prayer of John Calvin concerning the Law and the Gospel (This reading adapted from https://www.monergism.com/select-prayers-devotions-j

(Adapted from https://utmost.org/modern-classic/the-key-for-the-missionary/ by your webmaster Dr. Roger D Duke. More like this can be seen there.) Are You a Missionary? If Not Why Not? Jesus Commissioned All "Born Again" Christians "To Go Into All The World and Make Disciples." Are You Going? The Key for the Missionary By Oswald Chambers All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations. Matthew 28:18–19 The basis of the

"God [is] Creator and Controller" of the Universe. By the Resurrection, God Declared Jesus; Savior, Lord, and Final Judge! Prepare To Meet Him In Judgment! Ponder That...! Third Day Morning: God Creator and Controller MOST HIGH GOD, The universe with all its myriad creatures is thine, made by thy word, upheld by thy power, governed by thy will. But thou art also the Father of mercies, the God of all grace, the bestower of all comfort, the protector of the saved. Thou hast bee

Christ Died and Was Raised Again; One Result, We Are Saved Now By His Life. To All Those Who Called On His Name By Faith and Repentance, Born Again! A Devotional for Monday October 12, 2026 (Today's devotional is dedicated to my mother, Lura Oline Scott Duke Who Died This Day in 1995, Rest in Peace Until Christ Comes for us all!) Saved by His Life “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to by the death of his son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be sa

SHOCKING! Sin Is Something That You ARE! It Does Produce All of Our Sins! But Jesus Has Become Sin for Us and Reconciled Us To God! Have You Been Reconciled by Faith in Christ Alone? Check Yourself! Reconciliation By Oswald Chambers God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21 Sin is a fundamental relationship. It isn’t wrongdoing; it’s wrong being. Sin is deliberate and emphatic independence from Go

Jesus Prays for His Own in John 17. He Continues to Pray for Them in Hebrews 7:25 as High Priest. Are You Included by Your Rebirth and Taking Up Your Cross? If Not, Why Not? Please Meditate on That! A Devotional Reading for Tuesday October 6 From the pen of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress Christ Prays as High Priest “Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them”

Jesus, the Lord of Heaven, humbling Himself by washing His disciples feet. Humiliation (Of our Lord Christ and of ourselves) SOVEREIGN LORD, When clouds of darkness, atheism, and unbelief come to me, I see thy purpose of love in withdrawing the Spirit that I might prize him more, in chastening me for my confidence in past successes, that my wound of secret godlessness might be cured. Help me to humble myself before thee by seeing the vanity of honour as a conceit of men’s min

God [is] All-Sufficient: He Said His Strength Is Made Perfect in Our Weakness, He Will Be In Us and Through Us All We Need, If We But Submit To Him. Please Consider Submitting?! God All-Sufficient O LORD OF GRACE, The world is before me this day, and I am weak and fearful, but I look to thee for strength; If I venture forth alone I stumble and fall, but on the Beloved’s arms I am firm as the eternal hills; If left to the treachery of my heart I shall shame thy Name, but if en

A Devotional for the Fifth Day Morning of the Week: October 1st The LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT is the Original Giver: He Gives-In Creation, In Redemption, In Life, In Death, And Gives His Everlasting Love For All of Those He Calls Eternally To Himself. "The Giver" CREATOR, UPHOLDER AND PROPRIETOR OF ALL THINGS, We cannot escape from thy presence and control, nor do we desire to do so. Our privilege is to be under the agency of thy omnipotence, righteousness, wisdom, patience, mercy

Has God "Pinched You"? If You Are To Be Used by HIM, You Must Be; You Will Be Crushed! So, HE Can Break Your Will and Conform You To HIS WILL! So, "HIS Will Can Be Done On Earth" by You! Amen! The Commission of the Call By Oswald Chambers I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions. Colossians 1:24 The call of God is utterly unique. We think we are answering God’s call when we devote ourselves to

The Consciousness of the Call By Oswald Chambers Jesus Calls All! To Salvation, To Preach, To Follow HIM, To Take Up Our Cross, To Father, To Mother, To Vocation, To Be His Witnesses! Are You Conscious of His Call On You? I am compelled [called] to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel! I Corinthians 9: 16 We are prone to forgetting the mystical, supernatural quality of the touch of God. If you can tell others where and when you received the call of God and all abo

Has The Love of God Been Shed Abroad In Your Heart By His Holy Spirit? It Can Be; By The Rebirth By and In Jesus Our Lord! Ponder That, There Is Nothing Else Like It In This World-Or The Next! Love Shed Abroad GRACIOUS GOD, My heart praises thee for the wonder of thy love in Jesus; He is heaven’s darling, but is for me the incarnate, despised, rejected, crucified sin-bearer; In him thy grace has almost out-graced itself, In him thy love to rebels has reached its height; O to

"Are You Kind To God, That Is Do You Love Him," John Bunyan Asks? We Are Commanded To Love God and Love Neighbor! Are You And I Fulfilling These Commands? I Look Within To Check Myself! Do You? A Devotional for Friday September 25, 2026 From the pen of John Bunyan author of The Pilgrim's Progress Love to God is Kindness to Him “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, ‘Thus says the LORD, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in

Do You Understand "Depravity"? The Bible Declares We All Are Depraved! We Need a "Heart Transplant" Spiritually, Changing The Heart of Stone To A Heart That Loves God! Meditate On That . . . ! Thine Is My Heart: A Devotional Reading from the Writings of John Calvin John Calvin (compiled by John H. Kromminga) Bible Text: Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things whic

Are You A Witness for Christ? That is "The Missionary's Goal"! You ARE To Be A Witness and Missionary? For All Followers Of Christ Are To Be Both? If We Are To Be Faithful Christians! Are We Faithful? The Missionary’s Goal By Oswald Chambers "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem." Luke 18:31 In the natural life our ambitions alter as we develop; in the Christian life the goal is given at the beginning, the beginning and the end are the same, viz., Our Lord Himself. We start with C

God Desires Men’s Heart! He Desires Your Heart, Does He Have Your Heart? Why? Or Why Not? It Comes Down To Your Heart's Affections? Who or What Do You Love? Ponder That . . . ! A Devotional for Tuesday September 22, 2026 From the pen of John Bunyan author of The Pilgrim's Progress God Desires Men’s Heart “Of David. To you, O LORD, I will lift up my soul” Psalm 25: 1. God’s desire is to the work of his hands and the righteous are for surrendering that up to him. 1. In giving u

Are You A Follower, Disciple of the LORD JESUS CHRIST? Then You Need Renewal, Constant Daily Renewal! How Do I Know, Because I Need Daily Renewal Myself! Would You Repent With Me? Please Do! A Disciple’s Renewal O MY SAVIOUR, Help me. I am so slow to learn, so prone to forget, so weak to climb; I am in the foothills when I should be on the heights; I am pained by my graceless heart, my prayerless days, my poverty of love, my sloth in the heavenly race, my sullied conscience,

Jesus Told the Apostle Paul, "My Grace is Sufficient for You." Is His "GRACE ACTIVE" in Your Life? It (HE) Can Equip You for All You Face and Have To Do! Please Meditate On That . . . ! Grace Active Lord Jesus, Great High Priest, You have opened a new and living way by which a fallen creature can approach you with acceptance. Help me to contemplate the dignity of your Person, the perfectness of your sacrifice, the effectiveness of your intercession. O what blessedness accompa

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, and Desperately Wicked: Who Can Know It? Does That Describe You, It Does Me!! But We Can Have Our Hearts Changed By the Rebirth! Bible Text: Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, Philippians 3:13 A Devotional from Church Reformer John Calvin for Thursday September 17, 2026 ... Depravity never ceases in u