Never Leave Home Without It
Don’t Leave Home Without It By Pastor Justin Cooper Have you ever been driving down the interstate and out of nowhere a rock cracks against your windshield? You almost wreck. Your heart’s in your throat. And you look up at that trucker who tossed it back like he doesn’t have a care in the world. […]
The Weaned Child
Firestarters | Gospel Light Baptist Church The Weaned Child A Devotional from Psalm 131 There’s something you used to want so badly that you’d lose sleep over it. Maybe it was a job. A relationship. A level of income. A certain kind of respect from people who mattered to you. At one point, not having […]
The Fingerprint You Leave Behind
Firestarters | Gospel Light Baptist Church The Fingerprint You Leave Behind A Devotional from Psalm 131 Think about the last argument you had that went sideways. Not the one from years ago — the recent one. The one where things were said that didn’t need to be said. Where you had the door open to […]
Quench Not the Spirit
Gospel Light Baptist Church 🔥 Firestarters A Devotional from Pastor Justin Cooper From the message: “Quench Not the Spirit” | 1 Thessalonians 5:19 Don’t Turn Him Down You know the moment. You’re about to say something kind — and you don’t. You feel nudged to stop and pray — and you scroll instead. You sense […]
Be Not High-minded
Firestarters Devotional | Gospel Light Baptist Church Devotional — Day 2 A Wild Branch — and What That Means There is a particular kind of pride that religious people are especially prone to — the kind that doesn’t look like pride at all. It looks like conviction. It looks like clarity. It looks like finally […]
His Mercy
Firestarters Devotional | Gospel Light Baptist Church Devotional — Day 2 His Mercy Endureth Forever Picture two choirs. Priests on one side. The congregation on the other. Back and forth, like a call and response that never gets old. “O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good.” And the people answer: For his […]
The Depths Don’t Scare God
Firestarters Devotional | Gospel Light Baptist Church The Depths You know that feeling when you’re in over your head and you know it? Maybe it’s a choice you made that you can’t unmake. A habit that’s run deeper than you ever meant it to. A version of yourself that you’re ashamed of — one you’ve […]
When God is Too Late
Gospel Light Baptist Church — Devotional When You Think He’s Too Late You’ve been there — maybe not at a literal graveside, but somewhere that felt just as final. A door closed. A relationship ended. A dream buried. And somewhere in the back of your mind, a thought crept in: It’s too late now. Even […]
The Road to the Resurrection – Day Three
Road to the Resurrection · Day 3 Proof That Cannot Be Argued The Resurrection Declares That Jesus Is God By Justin Cooper · Romans 1:4 · Luke 24 You can go to any cemetery in this world and find the markers of famous men. Authors. Soldiers. Statesmen. Presidents. Explorers. Religious leaders. But noticeably absent from […]
The Road to the Resurrection – Day Two
Road to the Resurrection · Day 2 He Is Risen Three Words That Turned the World Upside Down By Justin Cooper · Luke 24:6 A dying British pastor, barely able to hold a pen, once wrote his daughter a letter on Easter morning. His voice was gone. His legs were useless. And still he wrote: […]