I am glad that you have been enjoying the new devotional, and I have truly enjoyed writing it. It was easy for me to do while I was recovering from my surgery, but now that I’m fully back to work, I am finding it more difficult. I typically write in the evenings, and when I do that, I am not engaging with Dori. While she is still present, I need to focus on her and spend my time with her, taking a...  Read More

Pastor JD and Dori are currently traveling. Due to their travels, and JD actively caring for Dori, he is taking a pause on the Daily Devotional. The devotions will restart when he gets back into town. Thank you for your understanding and support of them during this time!Thank you for reading each day! We're so glad you're here!...  Read More

Together, the confessions agree that assurance is not found by searching feelings but by returning again and again to what God has said. The Word spoken by God becomes the anchor when everything else is shifting.  Read More

The Reformed confessions agree that God comforts His people through His Word. Suffering does not cancel His promises. It sends you back to them.  Read More

The Reformed confessions place sanctification squarely under the rule of Scripture. God sets His people apart by truth, and that truth is His Word.  Read More

The Reformed tradition binds hearing to doing. To know God's Word is to be accountable to it. Where there is true faith, there will be willing obedience.  Read More

The Reformed confessions treat preaching as God’s appointed means for proclaiming His Word to His people, not as mere religious talk.  Read More

The Reformers believed God is jealous for His glory and protective of His people. He regulates worship because false worship harms the soul.  Read More

The Reformers believed the church's job is proclamation, not production. The church guards what has been delivered, and does not manufacture new truth.  Read More

The Reformers did not despise tradition. They simply refused to grant it the final say.  Read More

The Reformers believed God spoke to be understood. They insisted the Bible must be in the people’s language so the church can read it, hear it preached, and be shaped by it.  Read More

To the Reformers, the preservation of Scripture is the proof that God intended His Word to remain the living rule of the Church until the end of time.  Read More