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WELS Daily Devotions

Is something troubling you? Are you overwhelmed? Stressed out? Take a time out and see what God's Word has to say about it.

  • A Friend of the Cross of Christ – October 6, 2026

    https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/daily-devotions/20261006dev.mp3 Listen to Devotion For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven. Philippians 3:18-20 A Friend of the Cross of Christ Are you a friend of the cross of Christ? That might seem like an unusual question. After all, who would want to be friends with a cross? The cross was an instrument of suffering and death. Yet for Christians, the cross is the place where we see God’s greatest love. The apostle Paul warns us about those who are “enemies of the cross of Christ.” They may not look like enemies. They may be religious. They may be successful. Others may admire them. But their lives are centered on themselves. Their god is their appetite. Their glory is found in things of which they should be ashamed. Their minds are fixed on earthly things. Does that sound familiar? It can be easy for us to become enemies of the cross without realizing it. Whenever we make our own desires more important than God’s Word, we are turning away from the cross. Whenever we measure our worth by possessions, achievements, popularity, or pleasure, our hearts are looking in the wrong direction. Whenever we imagine that we can make ourselves acceptable to God, we have forgotten why Jesus went to the cross. The cross tells us the truth about our sin. Our sin is serious. We could never make things right with God by ourselves. But the cross also tells us something far greater: Jesus has made things right for us. At the cross, Jesus took our sin upon himself. He suffered the punishment we deserved. He gave his life in our place. He did not save us because we were good enough. He saved us because he is merciful. That is why Christians are friends of the cross. We do not love the cross because suffering is good in itself. We love the cross because Jesus was there for us. The cross is where God’s justice and mercy meet. It is where our Savior paid the price for our salvation. Prayer: Lord Jesus, teach me to look at the cross and see the heaven you won for me. Amen.   Daily Devotions is brought to you by WELS. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. ™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.

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Military Devotions

  • Military Devotion – You Know How This Will End – October 2, 2026

    Watch the Devotion Based on Philippians 3:12-21 You Know How This Will End How will this end? What will this look like? How do I know we will be ok?  A lingering war in Iran, uncertainty with China, and all of the other “unofficial” places we’re involved militarily. . . and then here in the States, families are concerned about affordability and thinking ahead to the mid-terms next month. How will this end?   Anxieties are the “what ifs” that race through our brains and hearts.  Now, I’m not going to tell you, “Don’t be anxious.” Anxiety is an emotion and sometimes we feel anxious. But I do want to talk about what you do about anxiety. If it’s three or four glasses of bourbon, or binging on food that’s not good for you, or raging about things that haven’t even happened yet, or grabbing every ear that will listen to your “what ifs,” those aren’t healthy, and they are sinful. If you continue down that path, they will be the heavy burden that weighs on your heart and soul and mind, and your body will feel the effects. Do you feel that weight?    God doesn’t want this for you. In fact, he wants you to take your “what ifs” to him in prayer and then leave them there. He’ll take care of them in his time and in his way. He promises. But then he wants you to linger near him for a while longer, and to listen to him after he’s listened to you. Listen now.   Through his Apostle Paul who knew anxiety and who had experience with some big sized “what ifs,” he tells you how this will end: “God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. . . Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body” (Philippians 3:14b, 20-21).   Take a deep breath and let it out. It’s going to be ok. Your Savior has everything under his control. He died and rose from the dead and ascended to heaven where he sits at the right hand of the Father with all power and authority. He’s got this. He shows you his end game. He’s coming back for you. You, my friend, are going to heaven. He will take your body and mind and soul and make them new again, with a brain that won’t be able to run laps with “what if,” with a body that won’t feel the effects of stress, with a soul that is perfectly calm and at rest, all the time.       You know how this ends, because Jesus just told you so.   Prayer: Father in heaven, I ask that you be present and listen to our warfighters, those who are single and feel anxious and alone, those who are married, those who have children, their parents and spouses and children who are anxious for them. Move them to bring their “what ifs” to you in prayer first. Then, move them to listen carefully to you say to them, “Everything is ok. You can rest now. For I am your peace. I am your future. I got this.” In Jesus’ name I pray it. Amen.  Written and recorded by Rev. Paul Horn, WELS National Civilian Chaplain to the Military, San Diego, California. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. Note: Scripture reading footnotes are clickable only in the web version.

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