Dr. Roger D. Duke

Getting There By Oswald Chambers Getting There; That is to Heaven! You Cannot Get There on Your Own. Jesus Declared "I Am The Way, The Truth, and The Life"! Are You Going "There"?! Jesus said, "Come unto Me." Matthew 11:28 Where the Sin and the Sorrow Cease and the Song and the Saint Commence Do I want to get there? I can now. The questions that matter in life are remarkably few, and they are all answered by the words — “Come unto Me.” Not — “Do this, or don’t do that”; but

Christianity's Difference: Jesus Christ is Raised from the Dead! And He Will Come Again; TO RAISE ALL WHO CALL ON HIM BY FAITH AND REPENTANCE! GLORY TO HIS NAME!! A Devotional for Wednesday June 10, 2026 From the Pen of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress Sharers in His Resurrection “So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus” Romans 6: 11. By this . . . we have now escaped death. “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead

Do You Know What It Takes To "Approach God"? Humbly Read and Consider This Prayer and Let It Sink Down Into Your Heart and Mind. You May Find Yourself Surprised?! Ponder That . . . . Act of Approach [To God] BENIGN LORD, I praise thee continually for permission to approach thy throne of grace, and to spread my wants and desires before thee. I am not worthy of thy blessings and mercies for I am far gone from original righteousness; My depraved nature reveals itself in disobedi

Lloyd-Jones Was Admired World-Wide for His Masterful Preaching (Head Shot of Lloyd-Jones. Christian History Institute.) Lloyd-Jones Was Admired World-Wide for His Masterful Preaching (Editorial comment: Please consider one of my all time favorite preachers that I have just recently discovered, enjoy!) IT IS NOT HARD to find testimonials from people who consider Martyn Lloyd-Jones one of the greatest preachers of the twentieth century. His books and recorded sermons give evide

Is God Foolish? Is God Weak? Check Out This Rhetorical Turn of a Phrase in the Apostle's Writings to Get Our Attention! Employed Showing God's Superiority to Humankind! Check It Out . . . A Devotional for Friday June 5, 2026 From the Pen of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress God’s Foolishness Wiser than Men “For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men” 1 Corinthians 1: 25. That he suffered as a common person is true.

Jesus Second Coming with the glory of His Holy Angles. Are you prepared?! A Devotional Thought from Charles Haddon Spurgeon, famous English Baptist Pastor/Theologian form the 19th Century. "Received up into glory." 1 Timothy 3:16 We have seen our well-beloved Lord in the days of his flesh, humiliated and sore vexed; for he was "despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." He whose brightness is as the morning, wore the sackcloth of sorrow as his

Jesus Christ declared He was the Way, the Truth, and the Life! Is He all of these to you? But we are all as an unclean thing[1] Isaiah 64:6 Or “we have been”; so all men are in a state of nature: man was made pure and holy, but by sinning became impure; and this impurity is propagated by natural generation, and belongs to all, none are free from it; and there is no cleansing from it but by the grace of God and blood of Christ: all are not sensible of it; some are, as the chu

Christ is our Righteousness. A Devotional Thought for Tuesday June 2, 2026 From the pen of John Bunyan, Early Baptist Pastor and Author of Pilgrim's Progress Christ [Is] Our Righteousness “For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinner, so by the one man’s obedience the many the many will be made righteous” Romans 5: 19 Now—to wit, what sin and the curse is—stand clear in all men’s sight, unless they be atheists or desperately heretical. I shall, therefore, in

Ezekiel questioned by God, could the dry bones live? God tells him to preach to the wind to come and "breathe" on them the "breath of life" so they can live. The Staggering Question By Oswald Chambers Son of man, can these bones live? — Ezekiel 37:3 Oswald Chambers reminds us, "It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration." Can that sinner be turned into a saint? Can that twisted life be put right? There is only one answer: “O Lord,

John Gano RESISTED God For Two Years (BELOW: John Gano. New York Public Library's Digital Library / Wikimedia. Public domain.) Rendering of John Gano. JOHN GANO became a Christian in his early twenties. He studied the Westminster Catechism, expecting to join a Presbyterian Church—his godly father was Presbyterian. However he balked at the reasons the catechism gave for infant baptism. After a thorough study he concluded the Baptists are right: they teach that a person must be

Unquestioned Revelation By Oswald Chambers The beauties of Spring remind us annually of Christ's bodily physical resurrection and our ultimate resurrection because of His Resurrection. He is coming back to raise us with Himself! And in that day ye shall ask Me nothing. John 16:23 When is “that day”? When the Ascended Lord makes you one with the Father. In that day you will be one with the Father as Jesus is, and “in that day,” Jesus says, “ye shall ask Me nothing.” Until the

Jesus separates the Sheep from the Goats on the Last Day of Judgment. A Devotional for Wednesday May 27, 2026 From the pen of John Bunyan, British Baptist Pastor and author of The Pilgrims' Progress "Amazed by Their Disappointment" “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” Hebrews 10: 31. [The false professor’s] . . . disappointment will be fearful, so certainly it will be very full of amazement. 1. Will it not amaze them to be unexpectedly excluded fro

The Holy Spirit comes on the Day of Pentecost to initiate The Church. "Spiritus Sanctus" O Holy Spirit, As the sun is full of light, the ocean full of water, Heaven full of glory, so may my heart be full of thee. Vain are all divine purposes of love and the redemption wrought by Jesus except thou work within, regenerating by thy power, giving me eyes to see Jesus, showing me the realities of the unseen world. Give me thyself without measure, as an unimpaired fountain, an inex

Jesus crucified with two two thieves on Calvary.. The Grace of the Cross O MY SAVIOUR, I thank thee from the depths of my being for thy wondrous grace and love in bearing my sin in thine own body on the tree. May thy cross be to me as the tree that sweetens my bitter Marahs, as the rod that blossoms with life and beauty, as the brazen serpent that calls forth the look of faith. By thy cross crucify my every sin; Use it to increase my intimacy with thyself; Make it the ground

Now This Explains It By Oswald Chambers "Now This Explains It," you could realize you are cut off from God?! That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. — John 17:21 If you are going through a solitary way, read John 17, it will explain exactly why you are where you are — Jesus has prayed that you may be one with the Father as He is. Are you helping God to answer that prayer, or have you some other end for your life?

A rendering of Charles Wesley preaching, saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. This Day in Christian History: Charles Wesley Was Filled with the Holy Spirit (LEFT: Charles Wesley preaching—John Kirk, Charles Wesley, the poet of Methodism. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1890. Public domain) HE HAD JUST BEEN to the American colonies on a mission trip. Yet Charles Wesley was consumed by a deep spiritual void. Although he had been involved in evangelism, spiritual disciplines

Jesus taught us to pray "Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done . . . " A Devotional From The pen of Dr. John A. Broadus Co-founder of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary The Twenty First Day May of the Month June Do You Pray “Thy Kingdom Come"1] Scripture Portion Thy Kingdom Come Matthew 6: 10 "Thy reign come." I am not going to explain all these simple words of course, but here is one that wants explaining. The Greek word which is rendered "kingdom" in the text requires t

Are you standing firm in the LORD? Standing Firm Before the Lord By Oswald Chambers Stand firm, and you will win life.— Luke 21:19 For some time after we are born again, we aren’t as quick in our thinking and reasoning as we were before. We have to learn how to express our new life by forming the mind of Christ, and this takes time, effort, and patience. “In your patience possess ye your souls” (Luke 21:19 KJV). Many of us prefer to stay at the threshold of the Christian lif

A woman who humbles herself to the point falling prostrate on her knees to cry out for mercy to God! Grace in Trials FATHER OF MERCIES, Hear me for Jesus’ sake. I am sinful even in my closest walk with thee; it is of thy mercy I died not long ago; Thy grace has given me faith in the cross by which thou hast reconciled thyself to me and me to thee, drawing me by thy great love, reckoning me as innocent in Christ though guilty in myself. Giver of all graces, I look to thee for

A Devotional Reading for Monday May 18, 2026 From the pen of John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress Hot or Cold? “I know your work: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot” Revelation 3: 15. “Strive to enter in.” By these words . . . the Lord Jesus gives sharp rebuke to those professors that have not eternal glory but temporal things in their eye—by all the bustle that they make in the world about religion. Some there are that make a stir, what