Dr. Roger D. Duke

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

A Devotional for the 12th Day of the Month of December 2025 From the Pen of Dr. John A. Broadus The skeptic's "look" at God and what He has said in His Word!   “Unbelief is a Grievous Sin” [1]   We are in God’s world—we are bound to receive his teachings as truth, to rest upon his promises, and obey his precepts.             But it is unbelief with respect to the Son of God, which is denounced in the text and elsewhere as a flagrant sin. In the text, the dignity of Christ’s c

Individuality By Oswald Chambers Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves. — Matthew 16:24 There’s a difference between individuality and personality. Individuality is the husk of the personal life; it separates and isolates and must stand alone. Personality is something that can be merged and blended. Individuality is God’s natural covering for the personal life, but individuality must go so that the personal life can emerge and be brought into fellowship with Go

John FLAVEL: Man of God and Man of Prayer [ Above: John Flavel, c. 1691—National Library of Wales / Wikimedia public domain ] John Flavel "Man of Prayer" Puritan JOHN FLAVEL was a man of prayer. On at least two occasions, his public prayers resulted in divine intervention with immediate and consequential results. Born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England around 1630, he lived through the turbulent period of the English Civil War. The son of a nonconformist minister, he beca

The Offense of the Natural By Oswald Chambers Guest Devotional Blogger from History Have you been crucified with Christ? Do you have a "New Nature?" Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. — Galatians 5:24 The natural life isn’t sinful; the disposition that rules the natural life is sinful. Sin belongs to hell and the devil, while I, as a child of God, belong to heaven and God and the disposition he has put in me. I must have n

Romans 5: 5 For the Love of God is shed aborad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit . . . Love Shed Abroad GRACIOUS GOD, My heart praises thee for the wonder of thy love in Jesus; He is heaven’s darling, but is for me the incarnate, despised, rejected, crucified sin-bearer; In him thy grace has almost out-graced itself, In him thy love to rebels has reached its height; O to love thee with a love like this! My heart is stone, melt it with thy love, My heart is locked, let thy love

Isaiah sees the LORD of Glory in the TEMPLE high and lifted up and laments, "Woe is me!" The Temple of the Holy Spirit By Oswald Chambers A Daily Devotional for Advent Friday December 5th, 2025 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit? — 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do I realize that God holds me accountable for how I rule my body? Am I keeping my body under his rule, drawing on his grace in order to maintain righteousness? “I do not set aside the grace of God,”

Jesus told His followers that in the world they would have trouble! But He also said "Cheer Up!" I have overcome the world! The Law of Antagonism By Oswald Chambers In this world you will have trouble. — John16:33 Life without war is impossible, either in nature or in grace. The basis of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual life is antagonism. This is the open fact of life. The law of antagonism means that in order to stay healthy, I have to fight. Health is a kind of bal

Privileges of Heaven and Eternal Life only come from Christ's finished work! Privileges O LORD GOD, Teach me to know that grace precedes, accompanies, and follows my salvation, that it sustains the redeemed soul, that not one link of its chain can ever break. From Calvary’s cross wave upon wave of grace reaches me, deals with my sin, washes me clean, renews my heart, strengthens my will, draws out my affection, kindles a flame in my soul, rules throughout my inner man, consec

One alone before the Great White Throne Judgment of God to give account for his/her life! A Devotional Thought for November 2, 2025 From the Pen of John Bunyan, an Early English Baptist Who Wrote the Pilgrim's Progress There Remains No Strength in Me! “And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, ‘O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.

Moses breaking the tablets of the Ten Commandments after Israel sinned while he was on Horeb receiving the Law. The Law and the Gospel By Oswald Chambers Second Day of Advent Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. — James 2:10 The moral law doesn’t take into account the fact that we are weak human beings. It doesn’t consider our infirmities or our sinful heredity. It simply demands that we be absolutely moral. The moral

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

A rendering of Charles Haddon Spurgeon preaching. The one who prayed for sinners to be saved! 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 a distance nor stand at a distance from the burning mountain

Justifed before God by faith in the Death, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ the Lord! The Riches of the Destitute By Oswald Chambers A Devotional the Friday November 28, 2025 after Thanksgiving Scripture Reference …being justified freely by His grace… — Romans 3:24 The gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the truth that it reveals is not palatable or easy to swallow. There is a cert