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The Mountain of the Lord, Part 1 In the north garden at the United Nations in New York City stands a sculpture entitled, “Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares.” A gift from the former Soviet Union, this bronze artwork was created in 1957 by Evgeniy Vuchetich. It shows a blacksmith hammering a sword into a plow, “symbolizing man’s desire to...

Daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: Today, God often chooses to speak to us through His Word, His Spirit, and the wisdom of other people.

See: The Faithfulness of the Lord In 2016, British citizens were riveted by a political drama worthy of Shakespeare. Prime Minister David Cameron resigned, leaving his Conservative Party in need of choosing his successor. Cameron’s antagonist Boris Johnson was considered a frontrunner for the post, with influential supporters including Justice...

Hear: The Words of the Lord Until the early twentieth century, it was customary for survivors to wear mourning clothes for a period of time after the death of their loved one. (Famously, Queen Victoria wore black for forty years after her husband died.) After World War I, however, when nearly every family was affected by grief and loss of...

Receive: The Peace of the LORD In his book Science Speaks, published by Moody in 1958, Peter Stoner attempts to calculate the mathematical and scientific probabilities of the biblical record. (At the time, Stoner was professor emeritus of science at Westmont College in California.) Stoner discusses the probability that even eight of the many...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Popular culture has widely appropriated ideas of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It was the nickname of the Notre Dame football team’s backfield in 1924. Rock band Metallica used it as the title for a song. The Four Horsemen made a brief appearance in the movie Hellboy: The Fury and appear in more...

As proof that He was the Messiah, Jesus pointed to His great deeds—restoring sight to the blind, healing the lame, cleansing lepers, preaching good news to the poor, and more (v. 5). He still works miracles today. Pray that this will be revealed in the lives of those—whether family, friends, neighbors, or even yourself—who harbor doubts.

Tomorrow is New Year’s Day, a day on which many commit to resolutions that will guide them in the year ahead. What resolutions might help you to remain in the presence of Jesus and carry forth His truth to the world? Pray that God would guide you in the year ahead and help you to be a guide to others.

The Gift of Love Never has there been such an extraordinary act of love as the death of Jesus on the Cross. Hymn writer Isaac Watts penned an emotional response to this gift: “Alas! And did my Savior bleed and did my Sov’reign die? / Would He devote that sacred head for such a worm as I? / Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon...

A daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: Some people fear the sight of blood. They have to look away during their annual blood test...