HPC Daily Devotionals

Colleen Conti

“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

David Wray

You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.

Marla Stroup

Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.

*Terry Olivier *

For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.

But suddenly, Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and exclaimed to his advisers, “Didn’t we tie up three men and throw them into the furnace?” “Yes, Your Majesty, we certainly did,” they replied. “Look!” Nebuchadnezzar shouted. “I see four men, unbound, walking around in the fire unharmed! And the fourth looks like a god!”