Dr. Roger D. Duke

“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

Are you giving your due diligence to your soul's need!? Give Diligence to Your Faith! From the Writings of the Rev. Dr. John Gill 2 Peter 1:10   Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence [1] To make your calling and election sure By calling is not meant a call to any office in the church, nor an external call, either by the voice of nature, or by the ministry of the word; but an internal and effectual call by special grace, to grace here, and glory hereafter; [a] “callin

This man is enrolled with Christ in the School of Prayer. A Daily Prayer Devotional for January 6 Chapter 6- 'How much more? ' or The Infinite Fatherliness of God 'Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone; or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent! If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in Heaven give good things to them that ask Him!' Matthew 7

The calling of Matthew away from his tax table to follow Jesus as His Disciple. Not Now, but Later By Oswald Chambers Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later. — John 13:36 When Peter first encountered Jesus, he was fascinated. Jesus said, “Follow me,” and Peter went easily. Then he denied Jesus three times, his heart broke, and fascination turned to shame. When Jesus called to him again, Peter could go only because he’d received the Holy Spirit. The

A hypocrite, a wolf amongst the sheep! A Devotional Thought for Saturday January 3, 2026 The Log and the Speck “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye” Matthew 7:5. Wherefore I fell to some outward reformation, both in my words and life, and did set the commandments before me for my way to heaven; which commandments I also did strive to keep, and, as I thought, did keep them pretty well

Adam and Eve after "The Fall," after they had sinned and were driving out of Eden. This was also after God decreed their would be a Redeemer and the curses were made on them! Genesis 3:15   And I will put enmity between thee and the woman [1]   Between whom there had been so much familiarity, not only while they had the preceding discourse together, but before; for it is conjectured by some, that she took a particular liking to that creature, and was delighted with it, and la

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

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