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Daily Devotions

Lutheran Hour Ministries

Daily Devotions from LHM are based on everyday topics and will help strengthen and encourage your faith as you do the same for others.

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  • Yesterday · 4 min

    Teachable

    [Jesus said to the religious leaders who were challenging His authority] “What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his...

  • Thursday · 3 min

    Truth or Safety?

    And when He [Jesus] entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to Him as He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?” Jesus answered them, “I also will ask...

  • Wednesday · 2 min

    On the Day of Christ

    So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from...

  • Tuesday · 3 min

    Afraid of God

    The Word of the Lord came to me … “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is My way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just? When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he...

  • Monday · 3 min

    Your Paths

    Make me to know Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You I wait all the day long. (Psalm 25:4-5)

  • Sunday · 3 min

    How Clear Is Our Vocation, Lord

    “How clear is our vocation, Lord, / When once we heed Your call: / To live according to Your Word / And daily learn, refreshed, restored, / That You are Lord of all / And will not let us fall.”

  • September 19 · 3 min

    Knitting Our Families Together

    And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus. (Acts 5:42)

  • September 18 · 4 min

    High Bar to Clay Jar

    [Jesus said] “… many who are first will be last, and the last first. For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he...

  • September 17 · 3 min

    Working for Love

    [Jesus said,] “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the...

  • September 16 · 3 min

    The Unexpected Benefits of Suffering

    I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the Gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. And most of the brothers,...

  • September 15 · 3 min

    Come Home Now!

    “Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon....

  • September 14 · 3 min

    Just One Thing

    One thing I have asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple. (Psalm 27:4)

  • September 13 · 3 min

    Forgive Us, Lord, for Shallow Thankfulness

    Sunday, September 13, 2026 “Forgive us, Lord, for shallow thankfulness, / For dull content with warmth and sheltered care, / For songs of praise for food and harvest press, / While of Your richer gifts we’re unaware.” From their earliest years, many...

  • September 12 · 3 min

    If Only We Knew Better

    Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man...

  • September 11 · 5 min

    Forgiveness Is a Non-Negotiable

    [Jesus said] “Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven … forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” (Matthew 6:9a, 12)

  • September 10 · 3 min

    Help to Forgive

    Then Peter came up and said to Him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be...

  • September 9 · 3 min

    Building Up Fellow Christians

    As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who...

  • September 8 · 3 min

    Believing Our Forgiveness

    When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: ‘Say...

  • September 7 · 3 min

    So Far

    He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does He...

  • September 6 · 3 min

    Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive

    “‘Forgive our sins as we forgive,’ / You taught us, Lord, to pray; / But You alone can grant us grace / To live the words we say. “In blazing light Your cross reveals / The truth we dimly knew: / What trivial debts are owed to us, / How great our...

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