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First15 Devotional
First15 is a daily devotional written to help you connect with God. Each day, the devotional features scripture, a devotional thought, guided prayer, and action steps. For more information, please visit first15.org. To hear the music from the devotional, search for First15 Worship on Spotify or Apple Music. Tags: First15 Devotional, First 15, First15 Worship, Devotional
Episodes
- First15 Devotional
God Redeems All He Allows
As we continue our first week of the new year, today we’re going to look at how God redeems all that he allows. Each of us faces difficult seasons in our…
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Trust His Heart
Today we’re going to explore what it means to truly trust God. Life is full of incredibly difficult circumstances, and in the midst of disappointments and…
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The Resolution Your Heart Wants to Make
As we begin a brand new year, we’re going to explore what it looks like to create New Year’s resolutions that matter. Many of us feel the pressure to make…
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Make Space for God to Fill
For the last day of the year, we’re going to take time to simply make space for God to fill. Whenever we make a little room in our day, and in our hearts for…
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Dream
As we near the end of this year, today I want to create space to simply dream with God. God has so many incredible plans for you next year. He has so many…
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Hope in God’s Nearness
Today we’re going to take a look at the fresh hope we have in God’s nearness. God’s promise to be near to us as his people, and the great lengths he’s gone to…
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You Can Do All Things
As we continue our series allowing God to prepare us for the new year, today we’re going to look at the promise of God that we can do all things in his…
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New Beginnings
As we continue our series, allowing God to prepare us as the new year approaches, today we’ll make space for God to create new beginnings in our lives. Every…
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Seasons with God
As this year comes to a close, it’s vital that we take time to both reflect on what God has done and allow him to prepare us for what’s to come. A new year…
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Overflowing Joy
In today’s First15 we’ll be celebrating Christmas, Christ come for you and me, by allowing the reality of his coming to fill our hearts with overflowing joy…
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The Sacrifice of Christmas
It’s easy during the Christmas season to get so caught up in the busyness and gifts that we forget the immense sacrifice Jesus made to dwell with us. The truth…
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Interdependence
Yesterday, in the first day of our Christmas series, we explored the incarnation of Christ, that in ways beyond the coming of Jesus God has and continues to…
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Incarnation
Christmas is a time where we as believers celebrate God’s heart to write himself into our story. Prior to Jesus we had no real picture of God’s love. All we…
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The Humble King
As we end our week looking to Jesus, today we’ll explore one of my favorite aspects of his nature: his humility. Jesus, the King of all the earth, the one who…
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The Just King
As we begin to wrap up our week celebrating Jesus our King, today we’ll celebrate the justice of God. What does it mean for God to be just? Does that stir up…
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The Merciful King
We have spent this week looking at different aspects of Christ’s kingship. Today we’ll explore how the Lord is merciful in nature toward us and the world. May…
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The Triumphant King
As we continue our week exploring various aspects of Jesus’ kingship, today we’ll celebrate his triumphant nature. What does it mean for God to be triumphant?…
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The Savior King
As we explore the gift of Jesus this advent season, today we’ll dig into what it means for him to be our Savior King. Is salvation just for a time in the…
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The King of Kings
As we spend this week celebrating who Jesus is and what he’s done, today we’ll remind ourselves of the great authority and victory of Jesus as our King of…
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The Sacrificial King
What a gift we have in the Christmas season. God himself took on flesh and dwelt among us that we might find eternal relationship in him. His coming serves as…
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The Depth of God’s Love for Us
As we end our week on Jesus’ High Priestly prayer, today we’ll dive into his desire for us to know the Father’s great love. Knowing the love of God for us is…
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The Glory of God in Man
As we begin to wrap up our week on Jesus’ High Priestly prayer, today we look at what it means to reflect God’s glory. How could man ever look like God? In our…
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The Truth of Sanctification
Today we continue our week on Jesus’ High Priestly prayer by exploring the topic of sanctification. What does it mean to be in the world but not of the world?…
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The Joy of the Lord
Jesus is a joyful King, and we find in his High Priestly Prayer that he desires that his people would be filled with his joy too. We all have a myriad of…
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Unity in Our God
As we continue our week on Jesus’ High Priestly prayer, today we’ll explore God’s desire to see his people unified. Why would this be important to him? What…
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Hope in Relationship
As we take a deep dive into Jesus’ High Priestly prayer in John 17 this week, we will discover together the deep desires of the heart of God. Today we explore…
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The Authority of King Jesus
We have a great High Priest who constantly intercedes on our behalf. The Son of God and Man loves you more deeply than you can fathom. He prays for you, that…
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Vision for Eternity
As we finish our week on vision and boundaries, today we’ll focus on having vision for eternity. The glorious truth is that this world is not the end for us…
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Vision for Community
As we begin to wrap up our week on boundaries and vision, today we’ll explore having clear vision for community. All of us will likely fall in different places…
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Vision for Work
Many of us are in a very necessary need of vision for and boundaries around our work. This may be one of the most important topics we discuss all week. We…
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Vision for Others
As we continue our week on vision and boundaries, today we’ll explore what it looks like to have vision for loving and serving others well. Is loving people…
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Vision for Yourself
Today we will take some time for ourselves, something we’re often not very good at doing. The reality is God cares deeply for you before you can do anything…
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Vision for God
As we focus this week on boundaries for life and vision, today we’ll explore what it would look like to have the right priorities in place in our relationship…
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Being a Person of Vision
We serve a God of boundaries. In his limitless capacity, endless creativity, and boundless existence he still chose to create boundaries. He still had vision…
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The Parables of the Lost Sheep and Coin
In today’s First15, the last in our series on the parables, we’ll be looking at the parables of the lost sheep and coin. May you discover today how precious…
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The Parable of the Prodigal Son
As we near the end of our week on the parables, today we’re going to look at the parable of the prodigal son. Hanging in my office is a print of Rembrandt’s…
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The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
One of my favorite stories is the parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector. Through this story, Jesus makes it abundantly clear how we’re to come before God…
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The Parable of the Lamp on a Stand
As we continue to look at the profound, life-transforming concepts Jesus shared through parables, today we’ll focus on the parable of the lamp on a stand. May…
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The Parable of the Mustard Seed
Continuing our week on Jesus’s parables, we’ll look today at the parable of the mustard seed. As we dig into this rich, beautiful parable, may our hearts and…
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The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and Valuable Pearl
As we continue this week allowing the parables of Jesus to speak directly to our situations, mindsets, and core beliefs about who God is, today we’ll dive into…
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The Parable of the Good Shepherd
Jesus loved to use stories to illustrate profound, life-transforming concepts. He loved to use real and genuine settings, characters, and ideas that apply to…
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The Longing to Make a Deep and Lasting Impact
As we wrap up this week looking at the longings of the human heart we all share, we’re going to look today at the longing to make a deep and lasting impact…
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The Longing to be Wholehearted
In today’s First15, we’re going to explore the longing we all share to be wholehearted. Everyone of us desires to give our lives to something, our passion to…
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The Longing for Intimacy without Shame
In today’s First15 we’re going to look at the longing we all share for intimacy without shame. You and I were made to be fully known, and fully loved. And…
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The Longing for Greatness
Today as we continue our series looking at 7 longings of the human heart, we’re going to take time to recognize and satisfy our longing for greatness. The…
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The Longing for Beauty
As we continue our week-long focus on 7 longings of the human heart, today we’re going to look at the longing we all share for beauty. God has created beauty…
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The Longing for Fascination
In today’s First15, we’re going to look at the longing we all share for fascination. We serve an absolutely fascinating God – a God who has created a whole…
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The Longing to be Enjoyed
All of us have insatiable longings that can only be satisfied in communion with our heavenly Father. The longing to be enjoyed, fascinated, to gaze upon…
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Tilling the Soil of the Heart: God’s Voice
As we wrap up this week focusing on tilling the soil of our hearts, today we’re going to look at the role of hearing God’s voice in living open and responsive…
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Tilling the Soil of the Heart: Prayer
In today’s First15, we’re going to continue our week long focus on tilling the soil of the heart by looking at the power of prayer. There is no better way to…
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Tilling the Soil of the Heart: The Body of Christ
As we near the end of our week focusing on tilling the soil of the heart, today we’re going to look at the role of community in positioning ourselves to…
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Tilling the Soil of the Heart: Scripture
As we reach the middle of our week-long focus on tilling the soil of our hearts, today we’re going to look at the power of Scripture in receiving all that God…
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Tilling the Soil of the Heart: Worship
As we continue this week-long focus on tilling the soil of our hearts, today we’re going to look at the power of worship in opening our hearts to receive all…
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Tilling the Soil of the Heart: Thankfulness
As we continue this week focusing on tilling the soil of our hearts, today we’re going to look at the role of thankfulness in opening our hearts to receive all…
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Tilling the Soil of Your Heart
This week we'll look at a vital spiritual practice to all those seeking to grow in God: tilling the soil of the heart. Jesus spoke in Matthew 13 of two…
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The Day Is Approaching
As we conclude our week on living for heaven, today we’ll explore the return of Christ and what that means for us. How can you be best prepared for the return…
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Things Unseen
As we begin to wrap up our week on living for heaven, today we’re going to explore what it means to have our perspectives shift toward the things of God rather…
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Heaven on Earth
As we continue in our week on living for heaven, today we’ll explore what it means to see Jesus’s prayer that God’s will would be done on earth as it is in…
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A Lifetime of Love
Every single one of us has an innate need to know we’re loved. And yet, so many of us go too many days wondering or unsure of the love our heavenly Father has…
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Marked by Joy
What would it be like to have unhindered, abundant joy in the midst of all circumstances? The beauty of the joy God longs to give is that it’s not fleeting or…