Devotional Series
Mercy Next Door
We receive God's mercy, then live it out by loving the people right in front of us. A six-week series on compassion, forgiveness, generosity, and mission.
- Intro Day 1 Mercy Begins With God Mercy doesn’t start with us or with who deserves it. It starts with God, and the more we remember His mercy toward us, the more it flows to the people right in front of us.
- Intro Day 2 Mercy Experienced Through Jesus God didn’t leave His mercy as an idea to study from a distance. In Jesus it became personal, and the mercy we learn to give starts with the mercy we’ve experienced.
- Intro Day 3 Mercy Received, Not Earned Mercy doesn’t begin with what we’ve done for God. It begins with what He has done for us, and we receive what we could never earn.
- Intro Day 4 Mercy Changes the Way I See People The person in front of you today is someone God sees and loves. Mercy begins when we slow down long enough to see them too.
- Intro Day 5 Mercy: You Give What You Receive Mercy was never meant to stop with us. The mercy we have received becomes the mercy we carry to the people right in front of us.
- Day 1 Love God. Love Your Neighbor. Following Jesus changes the way we see and treat the people around us. This week, love the people God has placed around you.
- Day 2 See: Learn to See People the Way Jesus Sees Them Mercy begins by paying attention. The closer we follow Jesus, the more we begin to see people the way He sees them.
- Day 3 Don’t Walk Around the Need We can always find a reason to walk around someone else’s need. Sometimes mercy begins when we stop looking for reasons not to care.
- Day 4 Feel: Put On Compassion Compassion means another person’s need is allowed to matter to us, and we can ask Jesus to form that same heart in us.
- Day 5 Move: Take a Step Toward the Need Mercy moves. You may not be able to fix someone’s entire situation, but you don’t have to do everything to do something.
- Day 6 Mercy Does Something Good intentions are not the same as mercy. Mercy becomes visible when compassion becomes action.
- Day 7 Go and Do Likewise Jesus moved the conversation from identifying our neighbor to becoming one. The question today is, “Am I becoming one?”
- Day 8 Remember What You’ve Been Forgiven Forgiveness begins with the mercy God has already shown us. Before we think about what someone else owes us, remember what we have been forgiven.
- Day 9 A Debt You Could Never Pay We do not stand before God as people who earned forgiveness. We stand as people who received it.
- Day 10 Forgiven People Forgive Followers of Jesus cannot separate receiving mercy from learning to extend it.
- Day 11 The Gospel Changes How We See Them Forgiveness is not pretending sin did not happen. It means refusing to let another person’s sin have the final word in our own heart.
- Day 12 Look to the Cross When forgiveness feels impossible, look to the cross and remember what Jesus has done for you.
- Day 13 Remember the King When resentment starts taking over, remember the King: His compassion, His grace, His patience, and how He has treated you.
- Day 14 Mercy Received. Mercy Lived. Mercy received becomes mercy lived. What is the next faithful step of forgiveness Jesus is asking you to take?
- Day 15 Does My Heart Match My Worship? Obedience doesn’t earn God’s mercy; it is our response to mercy already received. Let God examine your heart, your words, and your actions.
- Day 16 A Faith That Reaches Beyond Sunday Our worship and our weekdays belong together. Mercy becomes visible in the ordinary ways we treat people.
- Day 17 Mercy Has Hands and Feet We may not be able to address every problem, but we can respond to a need within reach.
- Day 18 The Mercy That Changed Me We don’t serve others to convince God to love us; we respond because He already has. Genuine devotion begins with gratitude for grace.
- Day 19 Learning to Look Like My Father We are loved before we are told to imitate. Do my words, reactions, and priorities help people recognize His character?
- Day 20 Walking in Love Walking in love is not one impressive moment. It is a direction we choose again and again because Jesus first loved us.