This page has various series of Daily Devotions that the Staff and members of Second Baptist have written and shared. These devotions have been for both specific times – Christmas/Advent and a January Bible Study – as well as for general encouragement and hope. 

January Bible Study

Keeping the Faith

Text: Mark 5:24-34

Keeping the Faith

 

Do you ever experience circumstances that make you just want to talk to Jesus face to face or just to touch him? Sometimes I feel if I could just physically see and touch him, whatever my circumstance is at that particular time would just fade away. Maybe we just feel alone and feel that physical time with Jesus would be all we need.

This is exactly how the woman in this passage felt. She had been sick with some sort of disease that caused her continual bleeding for 12 years, and not a single doctor could give her any answers. She had suffered for so long, and since there weren’t any other options left, she felt that if she could just touch the hem of the cloak that Jesus was wearing, she would be healed. So that’s what she set out to do, and Jesus in fact healed her immediately. Her faith is so encouraging!


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Grace For All

July 21, 2020
 
Text: Luke 23:32-46
Grace For All
Here we read the story of the crucifixion of Jesus. I find this story to be one of my favorites because it teaches me many important things such as all people have a choice to make about eternity, that we can find hope in a lost and dying world, and that the plan of salvation is simple and for everyone.

As Jesus hung there on the cross to die, in the middle of two other men, he showed love and mercy even in his own suffering and pain. Jesus said “Father forgive them for they know not what they do”.

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