January 9 20That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21when you heard about Christ and were taught in Him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.  22You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

 January 5 13Then Jesus came from Galilee to John that he would baptize Him in the Jordan.  14And John forbade Him and told Him, “I need for You to baptize me, and You have come to me.”  15Jesus answered and said to him, “Allow it for now, since it is fitting that we should fulfill … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

January 4 20He sent out His Word and healed them, and delivered them from destruction.  21Let them thank the Lord for His steadfast love, for His wonderful works to mankind.  (Psalm 107:20-21) Welcome to 2023 friends and family!  The start of every New Year is the time most of us make our resolutions.  Resolutions to … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

 December 31 The principle runs through all life from top to bottom.  Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.  Lose your life and you will save it.  Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end:  submit with every fiber … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

 December 30 The principle runs through all life from top to bottom.  Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.  Lose your life and you will save it.  Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end:  submit with every fiber … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

 December 29 But there must be a real giving up of the self.  You must throw it away ‘blindly’ so to speak.  Christ will indeed give you a real personality:  but you must not go to Him for the sake of that.  As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

 December 28 At the beginning I said there were Personalities in God.  I will go further now.  There are no real personalities anywhere else.  Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self.  Sameness is to be found most among the most ‘natural’ men, not among those who … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

 December 27 The command “Be ye perfect” is not idealistic gas.  Nor is it a command to do the impossible.  He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command.  He said (in the Bible) that we were ‘gods’ and He is going to make good His words.  If we let Him-for … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

 December 21 What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him.  It is the only thing we were made for.  And there … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

 December 14 And now we begin to see what it is that the New Testament is always talking about.  It talks about Christians ‘being born again’; it talks about them ‘putting on Christ’; about Christ ‘being formed in us’; about our coming to ‘have the mind of Christ’. Put right out of your head the … More Common Sense REBORN Devotional