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A Daily Devotional From the Pen of John Bunyan: Where Are You Truly Safe? You Are Only Truly Safe in the Presence of God!
A Daily Devotional for September 4 In God’s Presence is Safety “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Sep 4, 20241 min read
For Your Consideration: The First and Great Rescue Mission! Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago Ill.
[Adapted, adopted, edited, and used by permission from the Christian History Institute. You can enjoy their other writings at...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Sep 3, 20243 min read
Dr. John Gill Asks: "Where Have You Set Your Affections." "Who or What Do You Love"?
Colossians 3:2 Set your affections on things above . . . [1] For unless the affections are set on them, they [the things above] will...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Sep 2, 20242 min read
Have You Personally Cried Out For Mercy Like Israel's King David? Think About It ... A Devotional From John Gill
Psalm 51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God [1] David, under a sense of sin, does not run away from God, but applies unto him, and casts himself...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 30, 20242 min read
Is Your Praying Like “The Prayer of the Woman of Canaan”? Think About It . . .
A Devotional from the Desk of John A. Broadus Sermon Excerpt “The Prayer of the Woman of Canaan” [1] Scripture Portion Matthew...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 29, 20243 min read
I Corinthians 5:7: "...For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us." A Devotional from the Pen of John Gill
Exodus 12:7 & 8 And they shall take of the blood [1] Of the lamb, being received into a basin, Exodus 12:22: And strike it on the two...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 28, 20243 min read
There is the One Thing Needful: That Christ Should Be All And All! Please Think About It?!
“But Christ is all, and in all.” Colossians 3:11. THE great concernment of lost creatures is, above all things, to mind salvation. This...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 27, 20241 min read
Have You Thought About It Lately? He's Got the Whole World In His Hands! Think About It?
This Is My Father's World “The Story Behind the Hymn” This hymn has been a popular one for several years. Maltbie Davenport Babcock was...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 26, 20242 min read
Consider: “JESUS PRAYS FOR PETER—AND YOU and ME!”
A Devotional: “JESUS PRAYS FOR PETER—AND YOU and ME!” Morning Devotional "These have no root."-Luke 8:13 Please enjoy The...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 23, 20242 min read
Encouragement to the Unbeliever!
(From the Writings of John Bunyan. Author of The Pilgrim’s Progress. Bunyan’s writings are in the Public Domain.) Encouragement to the...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 22, 20244 min read
From the Pen of John Broadus, a Devotional for August 21st: Are You Waiting for "The Kingdom of God"? Do You Seek To Enter Into His Kingdom?
The Twenty First Day of the Month “Thy Kingdom Come” [1] Scripture Portion Thy Kingdom Come Matthew 6: 10 "Thy reign come." I...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 21, 20242 min read
Not to be Offensive! But: What Type of Sinner Are You? Great of Small? Have No Fear! There is Mercy Offered to All Sinners--Great or Small!
Mercy Offered to All Sinners—Great or Small! [1] Would Jesus Christ have mercy offered, in the first place, to the biggest sinners? Then...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 20, 20244 min read
Jesus Was Tempted in All Points Like We Are, Yet Without Sin! (Hebrews 4:15). Thanks Be To God! He Showed He Was God Incarnate By His Power to Overcome!
"THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST" (This is excerpted from "The Self-Emptying of Christ" paper written by Dr. Roy O. Beaman. Th.D. He was a...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 19, 20244 min read
Is Your Life Dry As a Dust Storm? Or Are You Full of the Grace of God? Please Consider This Very Important Question!
Dust or Grace? “For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust. As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 16, 20243 min read
Are You in the Valley of Vision? Are You Looking for the Light of Christ from the Dark Bottom of the Well of Life? Think About It!
“The Valley of Vision” Please enjoy “The Valley of Vision,” a selected reading brought to you brought to you by The Duke Consulting...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 15, 20241 min read
Missionaries! Why Do We Go? Commission? and Support Our Missionaries? To Seek Those to Worship Out God!
John Piper Quote on Missions and Worship: “Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 14, 20241 min read
Are You a "Big Sinner" or a "Small Sinner"? Or, Do You Think Yourself a Sinner at All? Think About It?
Biggest Sinners Have the Most Need of Mercy [1] [2] He that has most need, reason says, should be helped first. I mean, when a...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 13, 20245 min read
"Reason for the Season" There is a Purpose for Everything God Does in His Ministers and in All of His Creation!
"Reason for the Season" This month's featured book of Dr. Roger D Duke is Reason for the Season: Ministerial Reflections on Grief and...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 12, 20241 min read
A Devotional Thought: Do You Bless the LORD with All YOUR SOUL? Think About it Won't You Please?
Psalm 103: 1 Bless the Lord, O my soul [1] His better part, his soul, which comes immediately from God, and returns to him, which is...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 9, 20243 min read
A New Soon to be Released: Daily Readings from John Bunyan Published by Christian Focus Press
Introduction (Release date Nov.12, 2024) Since 1678 when it was first published The Pilgrim’s Progress has been read and...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Aug 8, 20242 min read
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