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The Chapel Quotes
“Start saying ‘no’ to that thing inside of you that says ‘go ahead and say it’, ‘go ahead and do it’. We’re still a mess, we’re still a work in progress. We should be farther along than we are right now. There is the will of God that we be changed drastically. There is a hope that the person we are now is not going to be the same person next year. There is a gap between our intention to obey God and our actual obedience to Him. Between our intention and the reality of our obedience lies our flesh.”
“Grace is the gift of God that we do not deserve, mercy is that God doesn’t give us the negative that we do deserve. The grace of God teaches us to say ‘no’ to un-Godliness and worldly passions. Training is constantly saying ‘no’. The gap between intention and obedience lies in training. Training creates a reflex that becomes more natural. At the core of who we are is the struggle of wanting to control every single circumstance, but the only thing we are asked to control is ourself. We need to be training in private so that when we’re in the public the word that comes easiest to us is ‘no’. What is God calling us to say ‘no’ to?”
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“Christian Stylings In Ivory” by composer-musician Don Krueger
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Devotion 03/01/2026
Our Devotion, “Continuous Love” is by Jessica Smith of Beavercreek, Ohio, who studied professional writing at Taylor University.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” 1 John 5: 11 (NIV)
One day, I walked into the kitchen, snatched the television remote, and changed the channel from what my mother was watching without asking her. She paused in her task and looked up at me and told me that she loved me, and she also told me how beautiful I was to her, then went back to doing her work. Being slightly confused by the random statement, I asked her what was wrong with her. She said, “I just love you for you, Jeanette.” I thought that she was doing some kind of reverse psychology to make me turn the channel back. “No, really, Mom, what is wrong?”
“Jeanette, I have learned to appreciate you for you. Even if sometimes you are a little annoying, I still love you.”
I smiled at her and flipped the television station to what it was previously on. I already knew she loved me. However, hearing her say it and feeling her truly mean it was comforting. I knew that she said it because she meant it and not just because she wanted to watch her favorite soap opera.
PRAYER: Dear God, please let me know and feel Your never–ending love in my life. Let me appreciate the fact that You care for me even though I do not deserve it. In Your Loving name, I pray. Amen.
Book Review 03/04/2026
This Book Review is by Miss Rylie D. Harrison, a professional writing major at Taylor University.
Letters of Grace and Beauty: A Guided Literary Study of New Testament Epistles
By Leland Ryken
Weaver Book Company, PB, 110 pages
In this third book of a six-volume series on how to read the Bible as literature, Leland Ryken presents the concept of interpreting the New Testament epistles through a literary lens. He begins by dispelling many misconceptions surrounding literature, particularly in a biblical context. Step by step, Ryken takes the reader through the different elements of letters, making important distinctions between modern and ancient writing styles. Literary devices are explained within the context of the genre and how this should affect an individual’s interpretation of the passages in question. At the end of each chapter, there is a section that allows the reader to apply the concepts discussed. For some students of the Bible, this use of analyzing metaphors, similes, anecdotes, parables, artistic adjectives, and syntactical structuring may be a bit “over the top” and more tangential to the biblical meaning than traditional interpretations of letters from the apostles. On the other hand, for Christians well-grounded in their faith, this may be a refreshing new approach to enjoying familiar texts.
The book will appeal to both a male and female adult audience. Because of its obvious literary nature, it will be more applicable for people who enjoy analytical reading of classic literature. Ryken does a good job of addressing any concerns readers may have in regard to viewing the epistles as literature. Rather than claim the superiority of his method, he simply adds it as another possible method of interpretation. He presents biblical evidence to support his statements without falling into proof-texting.
Whereas the book does present a good argument for a literary reading of the epistles, it falls flat in application because this method does not do much to change how most people would go about interpreting various books of the New Testament. For an in-depth analysis of the New Testament epistles, there are other books deeper and more worthwhile.
Review used by permission of Evangelical Church Library Association (ECLA)
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