Dr. Roger D. Duke

Beauty In The Valley Do You "Cling To," "Trust In," and "Rely On" Christ for Eternal Salvation; And "Yet Sin"? Don't Despair! Pray and Meditate On This! He Still Receives Sinners Like You and Me . . . ! "Yet I Sin!" “Eternal Father, Thou art good beyond all thought, But I am vile, wretched, miserable, blind; My lips are ready to confess, but my heart is slow to feel, and my ways reluctant to amend. I bring my soul to Thee; break it, wound it, bend it, mold it. Unmask to me si

A rendition of a beheading with a sword! A Devotional for Friday, July 17, 2026 On this day in Christian history: [The] Romans Beheaded Twelve Martyrs at Scilli for Rejecting Emperor Worship TWELVE CHRISTIANS—seven men and five women—stood before the Roman administrator of North Africa, Proconsul Saturninus. They had spent the previous day in the stocks. The proconsul was inclined to deal lightly with them. All they had to do, he told them, was swear that the Emperor was divi

Have You Strived to Keep "God's Law"? Christ is the Only One Who Has Kept It? It is Only "Being In Christ" by the New Birth that We Can Keep the Law! A Grand Point to Ponder . . . ! A Devotional for Thursday for July 16, 2026 From the pen of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress Christ: The End of the Law “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes” Romans 10: 4. And whereas it is said Christ kept the law as our example, that we by kee

Are You a Servant of the LORD GOD? Are You "in The Battle"? "Have You Grown Weary in Well Doing"? Look Unto Him Faithful Servant, He Will Sustain You! A Point to Ponder . . . ! The Servant in Battle O LORD, I bless thee that the issue of the battle between thyself and Satan has never been uncertain, and will end in victory. Calvary broke the dragon’s head, and I contend with a vanquished foe, who with all his subtlety and strength has already been overcome. When I feel the se

Our vile affections are what make us look dirty in the sight of God! A point to ponder. Some Startling Words from the Pen of an Early English Baptist, Rev. Dr. John Gill. 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 gr

What is the Gospel? It is "GOOD NEWS"! All Other Religions Only Give Advice. The Gospel Declares What Jesus Has Done for Our Eternal Salvation! Please Ponder This News! What is the Gospel? A blog from the pen of our guest blogger today, Nathaniel Beaty of Oklahoma, City. May these words prick your heart and bring you to The Lord Jesus Christ! “What is the gospel?” This question is a very simple question that has a very simple answer: The gospel, or the good news, refers to

Christ is Coming Again Just as He Went; In the Clouds! Are You Looking for His Coming? Have You Prepared Your Heart for His Judgment? The Separation of the Sheep from the Goats?! A devotional reading for Friday July 10th, 2026 From the pen of Rev. Dr. John Gill Behold He [Jesus] Comes with Clouds[1] Revelation 1:7 John carries on the account of Christ in his kingly office, one branch of which is to execute judgment; and describes him by a future coming of his, which cannot

Are You On Your Way to the Place of Eternal Damnation? You Are if The Cross of Christ in Only Foolishness in Your Eyes! But it is the Power of God Unto Salvation to All Who Believe? A Point to Ponder . . . A Devotional for Tuesday July 9, 2026 From the pen of British Baptist Pastor John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress The Cross is Foolishness God judges [,] “The preaching of the cross,” that is, Christ crucified, “is to them that perish foolishness” (1 Corinthians 1:

The Will to Loyalty By Oswald Chambers To Whom or To What Are You Loyal? Do You Have an Idol of This World? Sex, Drugs, or Rock & Roll? Or is Your Eternal Loyalty to the LORD JESUS CHRIST? Ponder That . . . ! Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. —Joshua 24:15 I can’t give up my will; I must exercise it. Will is the whole person active. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God’s Spirit. When God gives me a vision of what should be, the question is nev

One on his face before the Heavenly Father confessing sins and calling out to God asking God to hear his prayers. Confession And Petition A Devotional for the Second Day of the Week, Tuesday Holy Lord, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Thy mind in Thy Word, of neglect to seek Thee in my daily life. My transgressions and short-comings present me with a list of accusations, but I bless Thee that they will not stand aga

A rendition of The LAW and GOSPEL: Without either of which you cannot and will not be saved eternally! LAW & GOSPEL A Devotional from the pen of John Calvin, one of the Father's of the Protestant Reformation! Grant, Almighty God, that as thou hast made known thy Law, and hast also added thy gospel, in which thou callest us to thy service, and also invitest us with all kindness to partake of thy grace — O grant, that we may not be deaf, either to thy command or to the promis

The Father (God our Heavenly Father) receives the Prodigal (you and me) back after he repents! A Devotional for Friday July 3, 2023 The Justified Prodigal “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight and am no more worthy to be called thy son” (Luke 15: 21, KJV). . . . This man was is sufficiently declared in verse [Luke 15:]13. [And not may days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and here wasted his substance wit

Nonchaloir (Repose) painting by John Singer Sargent hangs in the National Gallery of Art Repose HEAVENLY FATHER, My faith is in thee, My expectation is from thee, My love goes out toward thee, I believe thee, accept thy Word, acquiesce in thy will, rely on thy promises, trust thy providence. I bless thee that the court of conscience proves me to be thine. I do not need signs and wonders to believe, or thy Word is sure truth. I have cast my anchor in the port of peace, knowing

The Gideons Gathered to Safeguard Traveling Salesmen (ABOVE: Now you can get a more complete picture of what God has been doing through The Gideons in Witness to History—The Story of The Gideons International. This brand new book is now available at WitnessToHistory.org. [Adapted from the https://gideons.org/blog/witness-to-history web page].) THE FOUNDERS OF THE GIDEONS had reason to believe God was guiding their steps. John Nicholson, a traveling salesman from Janesville, W

Settle Matters Quickly with Your Adversary! Especially with CHRIST JESUS Over Your Eternal Soul! "Turn" in Repentance of "Burn" Eternally! DO IT NOW! Time is of the Essence Do It Now By Oswald Chambers Settle matters quickly with your adversary. — Matthew 5:25 Jesus Christ is laying down a principle: we must do what we know we should, and we must do it quickly. If we don’t, an inevitable process will begin to unfold, and before it is over we will have paid all we have in ago

The beheading of the great Apostle Paul.. (LEFT: Detail from The Beheading of St. Paul—Simon de Vos (1603–1676). Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp / public domain, Wikimedia) ON THIS DAY, 29 June 67, a Roman soldier beheaded the apostle Paul in Rome.* Preaching the Gospel of Christ Jesus, Paul did as much as any man to found the churches of the western Roman Empire. He was aware of his own influence. Writing to the Corinthian church, he summed up his own contribution to Chris

Are You "In" or "Out," CHRIST That IS? One is Either In or Out by the New Birth? Are You "BORN AGAIN"? Jesus Said, "You Must Be Born Again"! Ponder That . . . Therefore if any man be in Christ[1] 2 Corinthians 5:17 There's a secret being in Christ from everlasting; so all that are loved by him, espoused unto him, chosen and preserved in him, to whom he was a covenant head, surety, and representative, are in him, united to him, and one with him; not in such sense as the Fathe

Cliché or Truth? "For God So Loved the World That He Gave His Only Begotten (Unique) Son"; Given for You and Given to You? Have You Received Christ by Repentance and Faith? A Devotional for the Fifth Day Morning: The Giver CREATOR, UPHOLDER AND PROPRIETOR OF ALL THINGS, We cannot escape from thy presence and control, nor do we desire to do so. Our privilege is to be under the agency of thy omnipotence, righteousness, wisdom, patience, mercy and grace; For thou art Love with m

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden after they had sinned and made aprons of leaves to cover their shame. But, But God covers them with skins of a sacrificed animal after he makes clothes for them. A Devotional for Wednesday June 24, 2026 From the pen of English Baptist Pastor John Bunyan Author of The Pilgrim's Progress The LORD God as Clothier “And the LORD God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins and clothed them” Genesis 3: 21. [Consider an Old Testament example of

Have you been humiliated for Christ's sake? Humiliation SOVEREIGN LORD, When clouds of darkness, atheism, and unbelief come to me, I see thy purpose of love in withdrawing the Spirit that I might prize him more, in chastening me for my confidence in past successes, that my wound of secret godlessness might be cured. Help me to humble myself before thee by seeing the vanity of honour as a conceit of men’s minds, as standing between me and thee; by seeing that thy will must alo