Dr. Roger D. Duke

Judas Iscariot betays our Lord Jesus Christ with a kiss. A Deep Devotional Thought for the last day of the year December 31, 2025 from John Bunyan, early English Baptist pastor and author of The Pilgrim's Progress Judas: A Gift to Jesus! “While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled” John 17: 12 Some are given to Christ, that

a rendering of Eve being tempted by the Serpent. A Bible Devotional for January 1, 2026 from John Bunyan Early English Baptist Pastor and Author of The Pilgrim's Progress A Child of Disobedience “. . . [And] they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the Devil, after being captured by Him to do His will” 2 Timothy 2:26. As for my own natural life, for the time that I was without God in the world, it was indeed according to the course of this world, and “the sp

Judas Iscariot betays our Lord Jesus Christ with a kiss. A Deep Devotional Thought for the last day of the year December 31, 2025 from John Bunyan, early English Baptist pastor and author of The Pilgrim's Progress Judas: A Gift to Jesus! “While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled” John 17: 12 Some are given to Christ, that

Only true happiness comes from knowing Christ Jesus the Lord! Happiness Taken from T he Valley of Vision Devotional Book O LORD, Help me never to expect any happiness from the world, but only in thee .Let me not think that I shall be more happy by living to myself, for I can only be happy if employed for thee, and if I desire to live in this world only to do and suffer what thou dost allot me. Teach me that if I do not live a life that satisfies thee, I shall not live a life

Yesterday By Oswald Chambers Do you have true cyber security, or any other security for that matter? 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. Our present

A rendering of Charles Haddon Spurgeon preaching. The one who prayed for sinners to be saved! A Popular Article that was rerun because of its popularity! Today's reading is supplied to us from Dr. Michael AG Haykin's substack web page. Used by permission. And Jesus said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.” (Luke 10:2). O God, we would not speak to you from

Metropolitan Tabernacle where Spurgeon preached. For the Morning of Friday December 26, 2025 (This reading is taken from Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotional now in the Public Domain.) "The last Adam." 1 Corinthians 15:45 Jesus is the federal head of his elect. As in Adam, every heir of flesh and blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head and representative of the race as considered under the law of works; so under the law of grace, every redeemed sou

One who is praying the prayer, repenting, and renewing their faith. 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, my wasted hours, my unspent opportunities. I am blind while light shines around me: take the scales from my eyes, grind to

John Bunyan in Bedford jail pondering and writing Pilgrim's Progress. A Devotional for Wednesday December 24, 2025 From the pen of John Bunyan author of Pilgrim's Progress Final Sermon’s Final Summons “Therefore, preparing your mind for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ”

Christ's Manger points to Christ's Cross! Don't forget! Identified with His Death By Oswald Chambers May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. — Galatians 6:14 The gospel of Jesus Christ always forces an issue of will. Will I accept the verdict God passed on sin in the cross of Christ? Do I want to be identified with the death of Jesus? To be killed to all my former interest in sin, worldliness, and self? To be so identified with Jesus that I’m spoiled f

Dwight L Moody, great 19th century American Evangelist Dwight L. Moody More Alive than Ever AS THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY drew to a close, so did the earthly life of Dwight L. Moody. For nine years his heart had been dilating. In November 1899, he suffered serious symptoms one morning in Kansas after preaching to fifteen thousand people the night before. He had to break off his remaining meetings and return to his home in Northfield Massachusetts. The man who had led half a milli

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

“All Hail the Power of Jesus Name” © “The Story Behind the Hymn” A Hymn of Coronation Scripture Portion Rev. 4: 10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne saying, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to received glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” Rev. 6: 2 And I saw, and behold a white h

George Williams, founder of the Young Man's Christian Association. A Devotional and Historical Remembrance for June 6, 2025 Concerning: George Williams Created the YMCA to Give Young Men Clean and Useful Fun GEORGE WILLIAMS WAS APPALLED at the way London’s shocking amusements tempted unattached workmen into vice. Their employers cared nothing about them, he wrote. “They were treated as though deprived of mind . . . as though formed only to labor and sleep...without a moment f

Jesus came preaching "Repent and believed the Gospel"! A Devotional Thought for June 9, 2025 Christ Was Delivered for Our Trespasses “[Christ] . . . who was delivered for our trespassed and raised for our justification” Romans 4: 25. We received, by our thus being counted in him, that benefit which did precede his rising from the dead; and what was that but the forgiveness of sins? For this stands clear to reason, that if Christ had our sins charged upon him at his death, he

Do you concentate on you iPhone? Or how you fair before God? What To Concentrate On By Oswald Chambers I came not to send peace, but a sword. — Matthew 10:34 Never be sympathetic with the soul whose case makes you come to the conclusion that God is hard. God is more tender than we can conceive, and every now and again He gives us the chance of being the rugged one that He may be the tender One. If a man cannot get through to God it is because there is a secret thing he does n

Jesus Talks to Nicodemus about the Most Needful Thing--the Rebirth! Things Needful [!] What Do You and I Really Need? THOU ETERNAL SOURCE, Author of all created being and happiness, I adore thee for making man capable of religion, that he may be taught to say: ‘Where is God, my Maker, who giveth songs in the night?’ But degeneracy has spread over our human race, turning glory into shame, rendering us forgetful of thee. We know it is thy power alone that can recall wandering c

Prepare to meet they God! Amos 4: 12 A Devotional for Wednesday December 17, 2025 From the pen of John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress It All Depends on God “So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy” Romans 9: 16. "It is not in him that wills, nor in him that runs, but in God that shews mercy;" there is willing and running, and yet to no purpose (Romans 9: 16). Israel, which followed the law of righteousness, has not obtained it. I do n

Do You Think God's Thoughts after Him? Scriptural Convictions O GOD OF LOVE, I approach thee with encouragements derived from thy character, for I am not left to feel after thee in the darkness of my nature, nor to worship thee as the unknown God. I cannot find out thy perfections, but I know thou art good, ready to forgive, plenteous in mercy. Thou hast displayed thy wisdom, power, and goodness in all thy works, and hast revealed thy will in the Scripture of truth. Thou hast

Are You Approved by God? Why? Of Why Not? Approved unto God By Oswald Chambers Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. — 2 Timothy 2:15 What we need today isn’t a new gospel; it’s men and women who can restate the gospel of the Son of God in terms that will reach the very heart of people’s problems. There’s nothing easy or automatic about becoming such a man or woman. If you