Dr. Roger D. Duke

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

People striving to enter into The Straight Gate and the Narrow Way! A Devotional for Friday May 15, 2026 The Sixth Day of the Week From the pen of John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress But Why Should We Strive? Answer[s]— 1. Because the thing for which you are here exhorted to strive, it is worth striving for. It is for not less than for a whole heaven, and an eternity of felicity there. How will men that have before them a little honor, a little profit, a little pleasure

Annie Armstrong Founded and Led the Woman’s Missionary Union Annie Armstrong hero of Southern Baptist missions. [ABOVE: Annie Armstrong, c. 1875—Public domain.] DURING THE 1800s missionaries such as Adoniram and Ann Judson inspired many Baptist women of the southern United States to throw their support behind mission work. By 1873, some were supporting Lottie Moon in China. Two leaders in the Baptist mission movement agreed that an organization representing the entire church

Jesus responding to Satan in the wilderness temptation. Things Needful 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 children, can impress on them a sense of divine

Do You Have Habits That Enslave You? Do You Know You Are Their Slave? Do You Have a Desire To Be "Free at Last"? Then Trust Christ and Repent! Sweet Freedom in His Name? The Habit of Having No Habits By Oswald Chambers If these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful… 2 Peter 1:8 When we first begin to form a habit, we are fully aware of it. There are times when we are aware of becoming virtuous and godly, but this awareness should only be a st

A Devotional for the Second Day Morning: Monday May 11, 2026 God Over All The child's Sunday School song says it all: "He has the whole world in His hands!" O GOD ALL-SUFFICIENT, Thou hast made and upholdest all things by the word of thy power; darkness is thy pavilion, thou walkest on the wings of the wind; all nations are nothing before thee ;one generation succeeds another, and we hasten back to the dust ;the heavens we behold will vanish away like the clouds that cover th

Jacob Arminius who is the father of Arminianism theology. Questioning Calvin, Arminius Split Dutch Protestants [ABOVE: Jacobus Arminius—W. H. Daniels, History of Methodism in Great Britain and America. New York: Phillips and Hunt, 1880] WHEN THE CURATORS OF LEYDEN UNIVERSITY (in the town of the same name in the Netherlands) appointed Jacob Arminius as professor of theology on this day, 8 May 1603, they did not realize what a controversy they were creating. It initially seemed

Christ the Incarnate Son of God is the Rock upon which ALL of Christianity is built. No Christ! No Christianity! Are You Building For Eternity By Oswald Chambers For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? — Luke 14:28 Our Lord refers not to a cost we have to count, but to a cost which He has counted. The cost was those thirty years in Nazareth, those three years of popularity, scandal a

Christ can set you free to enjoy life the way he created us to do! Freedom Through Christ By Oswald Chambers Jesus said: "If the Son shall set you free you shall be free indeed"! John 8: 36 The Aostle Paul also said: It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. — Galatians 5:1 Spiritually-minded people will never demand that you believe a certain thing or hold a certain opinion; they’ll dema

Jesus is the Door to Heaven, If you and I are to enter, we must repent toward God and place our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. A Devotional for Tuesday May 5, 2026 From the pen of John Bunyan author of Pilgrim's Progress Is not Christ Himself the Gate? “When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from’” Luke 13: 25. It