Dr. Roger D. Duke

In The Valley I Am A Believer! Yet Sin Still Remains Within Me! But, If We Confess Our Sin, Christ Is Faithful and Just To Forgive Us Our Sin And Cleanse Us From All Unrighteousness! Ponder This . . . ! YET I SIN: A Puritan Prayer “Eternal Father, Thou art good beyond all thought, But I am vile, wretched, miserable, blind; My lips are ready to confess, but my heart is slow to feel, and my ways reluctant to amend. I bring my soul to Thee; break it, wound it, bend it, mold it.

Your Life is a "Voyage." What is Your Destination? Hell? Or Heaven? The Scripture Declares, "Prepare To Meet Thy God"! Please Consider Your Destination, Consider Your Preparation! THE [Your] VOYAGE A timeless 200 Year-old Puritan Prayer that is just as relevant today as the moment it was first penned. "O LORD OF THE OCEANS, My little bark sails on a restless sea, Grant that Jesus may sit at the helm and steer me safely; Suffer no adverse currents to divert my heavenward cours

Determinedly Discipline Other Things By Oswald Chambers Are You a DIY Person? Are You A "Determinedly Disciplined" Person? Do You Take Every Thought Captive for Christ? To Do So, You Must Be "Born Again"! Do You Discipline Your Mind? Or Does It You? We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience. — 2 Corinthians 10:5–6 These verses point to the strenuous nature of Christian discipleship. Paul writes that h

Are You in Need of God's Divine Grace Like I Am? It is Available To Us. Read, Think, Pray, Meditate On This Devotional-You Will Find Grace When You Seek God With All Your Heart? What a Thought? Amen!! "Need of Grace" [Are You in Need of God's Divine Grace Like I Do?] O Lord, Thou knowest my great unfitness for service, my present deadness, my inability to do anything for thy glory, my distressing coldness of heart. I am weak, ignorant, unprofitable, and loathe and ab

We All Move On To the Grave! What Wait's At Your End? Hell? Heaven? Judgment? Blessedness? We "Journey On" Daily To Those Ends. Make Sure Your Journey Comes To the Best End! Please Consider These...! A Devotional Reading for Monday September 7, 2026 Journeying On This is the webmaster's testimony and commitment. May God bless it to be so! LORD OF THE CLOUD AND FIRE, I am a stranger, with a stranger’s indifference; My hands hold a pilgrim’s staff, My march is Zionward, My eyes

Are You For God? If So, God Is For You! “What then shall we say . . . If God is for us, who can be against us”! There Is No Security In This World, There Is Only Security In Christ And His Gospel... A Devotional Reading for Friday September 4, 2026 From the pen of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress In God’s Presence is Safety “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us”? Romans 8: 31. God’s presence is the safety of a man. If Go

The Waters of Satisfaction Scattered By Oswald Chambers A Devotional for Thursday September 3, 2026 Would You Drink the Water, Three Friends Have Risked Their Lives To Bring You, When You Asked A Drink From Your Home Town Well? Or Would You Wordship? Ponder This . . . ! The three mighty warriors . . . drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before the Lord. — 2 Samuel 23:16 Have yo

Bust of Janus, the Roman God for which January is named. He looked forward to the new year while also looking back to the last year. Retrospect and Prospect SUPREME RULER OF THE VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE WORLDS, My heart is drawn out to thee for thy amazing grace and condescension. Thou hast kept my conversion fresh before me, that season of my first spiritual comfort when I passed through the Red Sea by a way I did not expect. I rejoiced then for that unthought-of passage, that

What Do You Truly "Lust After" or Desire? No Lust In This Life Lasts! A Desire For God Will Be Fulfilled In This Life and Rewarded In The Next! What Motivates You? Take a "DESIRE" Inventory Today! A Devotional for Tuesday September 1, 2026 From the pen of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress Desire for God “My soul yearns for you in the night, my spirit withinme earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world learn righteous

This Is Not a Funeral Psalm Only! It Is a Living Psalm: A Prayer of Praise, of Thanks, of Blessing: Because THE LORD Loves-Leads-Feeds-Protects-By His Very Presence! Read and Meditate On This . . . Psalm 23 King James Version 1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the va

Today in Christian History - Friday, August 28 Bill and Vonette Bright Brought Faith to Campuses Bill and Vonette Bright Brought Faith to Campuses (ABOVE: Bill Bright—Courtesy of Bill Bright Media Center) ON THIS DAY, 28 August 1953, Campus Crusade for Christ was incorporated in Los Angeles. The founders of the organization were Bill and Vonette Bright. The concept behind their campus ministry was to “win the campus today and change the world tomorrow.” Today, Campus Crusade

How Long Since You Turned The LORD'S PRAYER Over in Your Mind? Are You Willing for "His Will [To] Be Done" in Your Life? If Not, Why Not? This is Telling of Your Soul's Condition! Ponder That . . . ! The LORD's [Disciples] Prayer Found in the New Testament Book of Matthew 6:9-13 King James Version 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day

How Long Since You Recited "THE APOSTLES CREED"? Or Thought About Its Words? Do You Believe It? Then You May Be A Christian? Are You? Then Ponder That . . . ! The Apostles' Creed I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and [I believe] in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and was buried; he descended into hades; on the third day he r

Have You Prayed This Morning? Why? Why Not? Turn This Prayer Over Slowly In Your Mind And Ponder The Words As They Soak Down Into Your Mind And Heart! How Might They Might Change Your Direction! Morning Trinitarian Prayer Good morning heavenly Father, good morning Lord Jesus, good morning Holy Spirit. Heavenly Father, I worship you as the creator and sustainer of the universe.Lord Jesus, I worship you, Savior and Lord of the world.Holy Spirit, I worship you, sanctifier of t

How Long Since You Took Inventory? "Spiritual Inventory," That Is? Have You Looked Deeply Into You Heart To See What Is Really There? It May Scare You To Death? Ponder That My Friend . . . The Spiritual Inventory By Oswald Chambers Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Matthew 7:9 The illustration of prayer Jesus uses here is of a good child asking for a good thing. We talk about prayer as if the state of our relationship to God makes no difference

How Long Since You Worshipped? Have You Ever? Definition: "The Act of Giving Yourself To God"! Have You Ever Given Yourself To God? Better Now Before It Is Too Late? Eternally! Ponder That . . . . Worship: How Long Since You Participated? GLORIOUS GOD, It is the flame of my life to worship thee, the crown and glory of my soul to adore thee, heavenly pleasure to approach thee. Give me power by thy Spirit to help me worship now, that I may forget the world, be brought into full

A Devotional for The Twentieth Day of the August, 2026 “Hallowed Be Thy Name”[1] Do You "Hallow" God's Name? Do You Take God's Name in Vain? Do You Even Know the Difference? Have You Ever Thought About It? Think About It Before It Is Eternally Too Late? A Deep Thought to Ponder! From the pen of John Albert Broadus Co-Founder of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Scripture Portion "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name." Matthew 6:9 "Hallowed be thy name.

Has God's Love Been Shed Abroad in Your Heart (Romans 5:5)? If Not, It Can Be, By Your Repentance Towards God and Placing Your Faith in the LORD JESUS CHRIST! An Eternal Thought To Ponder . . . !? 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

Peter being crucified upsidedown because he submitted himself to God! A Devotional for Tuesday August 18, 2026 From the pen of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress Submission to God’s Righteousness “For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness” Romans 10: 3. The want of understanding of . . . [justification by faith] is that which keeps so many in a mist of darkness about the way of

Are You Discouraged in Devotion? By Oswald Chambers Do You Ask “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Are You Discouraged in [Christian] Devotion? Chambers Comments May Help, Please Read to See! . . . I Am Praying for You! A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” — Luke 18:18 When the rich young ruler asked Jesus how to win eternal life, Jesus didn’t respond with anxiousness or concern; he made no attempt to keep the