A Devotion for your drive into work:  If God’s promises are everlasting and Jesus—a Jew—died for all, why do some claim the church has replaced Israel or tolerate antisemitism in the public square? Pastor Brian Noble, referencing Romans 3:21–26 and Romans 11, rebuts “replacement theology,” emphasizing that “God has not rejected his people…Israel.” While Jews—from Paul’s day to today—need salvation through Christ like all others, the scriptural witness shows God always preserves a Jewish remnant, disciplines Israel as a sign of His reality, and remains faithful to His covenants. Christians should firmly oppose antisemitic attitudes or behaviors, remembering the gospel’s core: God’s grace extends to both Jews and Gentiles, and God’s promises endure despite national or personal flaws. The devotional closes with a prayer for every believer to stand for biblical truth, love the Jewish “older brother,” and seek the salvation and blessing of all peoples in the public square. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  If the law exposes every heart and shows our need for grace—not achievement—why are people tempted to substitute religious effort for the transforming power of faith in Jesus alone? Romans 3:20 and Galatians 3 teach that “by the works of the law no flesh will be justified”—the law instead convicts all people of sin, provides a standard of right and wrong, and functions as a tutor that leads us to the Savior. Abraham was declared righteous by faith, centuries before the law was given to Moses. Christ’s work fulfills the law’s demands and redeems all who trust Him. The devotional encourages believers to embrace unity across backgrounds, live by faith, and recognize that every conviction of sin is an invitation to run to Christ for forgiveness and renewal. The closing prayer calls for a public witness rooted in grace, humility, and the transforming presence of Jesus in the workplace and community. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  Are decisions, conversations, and public witness grounded in reverence for God—or shaped by social pressures, virtue signaling, or fear of others?? Romans 3:18 warns, “there is no fear of God before their eyes,” highlighting humanity’s lost state. Pastor Brian Noble draws from Matthew 10:28, Proverbs 1:7, Isaiah 41:10, 1 John 4:18, and Psalms, urging believers to reject the fear of man and embrace holy reverence for God’s authority, truth, and salvation. This means hating evil, loving what God loves, and trusting Him with every anxiety, meeting, or public square engagement. God’s presence brings boldness, wisdom, and security—so believers can speak truth in love, resist cultural compromise, and walk confidently in God’s guidance, mercy, and grace. The devotional closes with prayer for repentance of fearing man and courage to honor God above all in the public square and daily life. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  If true peace combines truth, justice, and mercy, how might your civic actions or personal choices change if you walked the narrow path Jesus taught, rather than following the crowd or simply faking peace? Drawing from Romans 3:17, Micah 6:8, Proverbs 4, and Matthew 7, Pastor Brian distinguishes “peacemakers” from peace-fakers and peace-breakers: the former embody divine reality by blending truth, justice, mercy, and humility—while the latter settle for conflict avoidance or outright strife. The devotional urges believers in both private and public life not to follow society’s broad, popular road (false peace, compromise), but to daily seek and walk the narrow path illuminated by God’s Word. This requires honest self-examination, bearing good fruit, loving God and neighbor deeply, and showing courage and compassion even when unpopular. The closing prayer asks God to help every listener reveal His character and truth with grace, advocating for justice, mercy, and gospel peace in a tumultuous world. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/ Link to the Book The Path of a Peacemaker By Brian Noble CLICK HERE

A Devotion for your drive into work:  If society is built on shallow, self-serving assurances, what collapses when God exposes the foundations—are we ready to return to biblical truth and accountable leadership? Ezekiel rebukes both male and female false prophets who carelessly claim God has spoken, whitewash society’s problems, and make pious claims for personal gain, discouraging the righteous while lifting the wicked. God will remove false visions, expose dishonest “mortar,” and deliver His people so “they may know that I am the Lord.” For today’s public life, the lesson is clear: embrace civic truthfulness, demand accountability from leaders, and build laws and movements on deep biblical foundations—not fashionable but false assurances. The devotional closes in prayer, asking God for honesty, discernment, and words that bring genuine hope and warning to a culture in need of reviva We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  If today’s paths are full of confusion, compromise, and stumbling, could returning to God’s ancient ways and daily Scripture restore hope, direction, and peace for yourself and your community? Romans 3:16 warns that human paths without God bring only destruction and misery, echoing Jeremiah, Proverbs, and Psalm 119’s calls to “seek the ancient paths” and let God’s word be a lamp to the feet. Pastor Brian urges listeners not to embrace superficial peace or progressive ideologies, but to seek deep repentance, blush over personal sin, and let biblical truth ignite real transformation in the public square. God’s word, bound to the heart, promises wisdom, joy, and a straight path even through obstacles and temptations. The devotional ends with a call to prayer and commitment: trust God, let His word shape your decisions, and go into the world to advance His values—because only by leaning on Jesus as the solid rock can any path truly be straight and secure.e. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  If justice seems far away and truth stumbles in the public square, what hope remains when only God’s intervention can restore righteousness and peace? Drawing on Romans and Isaiah, Pastor Brian Noble explains that all people are guilty before God: “Their feet are swift to shed blood... there is no justice in their tracks.” This passage shows that injustice grows from hearts estranged from God—deception, violence, and self-focus disrupt “the way of peace.” Yet God remains near to the repentant: His “hand is not so short that it cannot save.” Real justice and revival in public life require honest confession, repentance, and dependence on Jesus for transformation, not confidence in politicians or programs. The devotional closes with prayer for justice, personal and societal repentance, and bold faith to intercede for God’s intervention in the public square and daily life. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  If the tongue can set the course of life on fire—for good or evil—what ripple effect are curses, angry words, or bitterness sending into personal relationships and local culture today? Romans 3:14 and Psalm 10 acknowledge the prevalence and danger of cursing, slander, and oppression, especially from prideful or deceitful hearts estranged from God’s reality. James 3 warns that the tongue is “a fire…the very world of iniquity,” able to both bless God and curse people made in His image—“from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing.” Christians are called to wisdom from above, which is peaceable, pure, full of mercy, and transforms speech into a vehicle for truth and blessing. The devotion closes with an honest prayer, asking God to cleanse all careless or bitter words and empower every believer to bring hope and peace into their community by the words spoken today. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  If society’s words are filled with flattery and deception, how might truth spoken in love radically reshape homes, workplaces, and the public square today? Romans 3:13 describes humanity’s default: “Their throat is an open grave… with their tongues they keep deceiving; the poison of asps is under their lips.” Pastor Brian Noble applies this to modern life—where deception, confusion, and flattery disrupt families, confuse identity, and undermine public trust. Both psalms warn that God hates all lies, exaggerations, and flattery, but welcomes honest prayers of repentance and hope. The devotional closes with a prayer asking God to cleanse lips, bless words spoken, and empower believers to speak truth and life in every sphere, becoming living testimonies of His redemptive work. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  Are life’s disappointments prompting a return to God, or deepening the world’s sense of spiritual lostness and self-reliance? How could public policy and personal life change if more hearts turned back to God in humble faith today? Drawing from Romans 3:12, Psalm 14, and Isaiah 45, the devotional insists that no one does good or seeks God on their own—each person is called to move from foolishness to understanding by turning to Christ in repentance. The insight is that even if someone never outwardly “turned away from God,” everyone bears an internal knowledge of God and is invited to draw near, experiencing forgiveness, transformation, and restored purpose. The devotion closes with practical encouragement and prayer: to reject spiritual foolishness, declare God’s reality daily, find lasting joy not in outcomes or circumstances but in God’s presence, and become agents of biblical values in every sphere, from workplace to community. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  Do life’s disappointments push people toward self-reliance—or prompt a radical shift to seeking God, His kingdom, and His righteousness first? Using Romans 3:11, Psalm 53, and Matthew 6, Pastor Brian Noble emphasizes human inability to understand spiritual truth without God’s initiative. Paul draws heavily on Old Testament imagery: “There is none who understands, none who seeks for God,” echoing the reality that “the fool says in his heart, there is no God.” Before Christ, people are “corrupt” and focused on earthly anxieties. The message calls believers to move from worry and self-help to radical dependence on Christ—seeking first His kingdom and righteousness. Jeremiah 29:11–13 illustrates that even under discipline or disappointment, God invites prayer, promises to restore, and ensures that those who seek Him wholeheartedly are never abandoned. The devotional closes with prayer for understanding, wisdom, and the ambition to run after God and His ways in every sphere, from personal life to the public square. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  Would your life today be a “living sermon”—demonstrating to neighbors, colleagues, and the next generation that God keeps His Word and alone is Lord, or would spiritual blindness keep you from being an example of faith and hope? Based on Ezekiel’s dramatic sign-acts, the message asks believers to examine where rebellion, spiritual dullness, and “tickled ears” (superficial comfort-seeking) threaten their witness and relationship with God. The exile prophecy and the historical blindness of Judah’s prince (“they will dig a hole through the wall…he will not see the land”) serve as timeless warnings. The devotional closes with a call to be living billboards for God’s faithfulness, letting every prayer, decision, and public action point others to His sovereignty and truth, rather than waiting passively or doubting God’s timing. The final prayer asks God to open eyes, grant boldness, and make every believer a sign of hope and truth to a needy community today We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  What if every Christian recognized self-righteousness as “filthy rags” and allowed Jesus’ freedom and humility to transform public life? Let’s depend entirely on God’s grace instead of personal achievement? Romans 3 and Psalm 14 reveal the universal problem of sin and spiritual pride—nobody naturally seeks God or lives rightly by their own strength. Outward works, cultural achievement, and personal claims to virtue are worthless compared to “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.” The devotional emphasizes that belief in Jesus' death and resurrection is what transforms hearts and makes people “the evidence of God” wherever they go. The call is for humility, repentance, and bold witness: let go of self-righteousness, receive Christ’s righteousness by faith, and live as a “lion and lamb”—firm in truth and gentle with others—for the glory of God in every sphere of influence We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  What if understanding the very first sin could transform the way you see yourself—and everyone around you—in the public square? This devotional from Pastor Brian Noble dives into Romans 3:9 and the origin of sin in Genesis, unpacking the moment Adam received God's command and the fateful decision that introduced sin to the world. Noble explains how both Jews and Greeks are "under sin," emphasizing everyone’s universal need for a savior. Using the creation story, he highlights that shame, fear, and blame entered humanity with sin, but points to Jesus as the only true solution—urging listeners to approach the public square with compassion and gospel-driven action. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:   Is the fruit of your faith measured by willingness to forgive from the heart—or does bitterness and resentment keep you chained to condemnation, both now and for eternity? Paul’s discussion in Romans 3 is amplified with a teaching from Matthew 18 about unforgiveness: the condemned slave refuses to forgive, and is handed over for torture—not only speaking of eternal judgment (the “lake of fire”) but also the emotional and spiritual consequences of bitterness here and now. True salvation is marked by heart-level repentance and ongoing forgiveness. Those who cling to resentment and reject Christ’s mercy will face final condemnation, while those who receive Jesus and walk in daily forgiveness are set free to advance healing and biblical values in every sphere of life. The closing prayer invites God’s mercy, the cleansing of all bitterness, and restoration for those who trust in Christ and let go of condemnation today. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:   If God’s throne is established on righteousness and justice, what should that mean for every priority, decision, and relationship today? Drawing from Romans 3, Paul answers critics by affirming God’s absolute righteousness, which is not diminished by human failure—and emphasizing that salvation and right standing come only through faith in Jesus Christ, not human effort or heritage. The message weaves together key verses (Psalms, Isaiah, Ephesians) showing that God’s righteousness is everlasting, unchanging, and the basis for truth, justice, and hope for today. The call is to walk in right standing with God—denying ungodliness, living sensibly, and putting on the “new self” created in righteousness—so that personal holiness and public witness both reflect Christ’s nature and glory. The closing prayer asks God to help every listener choose righteousness, forgive sins, and advance biblical values wherever they serve. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  If God’s faithfulness isn’t canceled by our doubts, mistakes, or the instability around us, what boldness and hope should it ignite as we step into the public square today? Paul teaches that the greatest “advantage” of the Jewish people is being entrusted with God’s Word, but their moments of unbelief cannot nullify God's eternal faithfulness. Pastor Brian reminds listeners that from Lamentations to 1 John, scripture screams: God’s compassions are new every morning, His faithfulness is everlasting, and He always keeps His word—even if the world is filled with lies or turmoil. No matter what chaos or temptation confronts you in civic life or at home, God Himself will “strengthen and protect you from the evil one” (2 Thessalonians 3:3), shield you as a wall of refuge, and supply daily mercies to face every challenge. The devotional challenges believers to walk boldly, stand firm, and model faithfulness for their families and communities—because God remains unchangingly faithful as our hope, shield, and guide. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  Does possessing truth lead you to humble obedience and to be a witness for Jesus or to pride, complacency, and lawlessness, either for Israel or for the Church? Drawing from Romans 3:1–2 and the preceding chapters, the teaching shows that God’s gift to the Jewish people was the entrustment of the oracles—His promises and laws—to bless all nations. Their “advantage” is great, but it comes with the warning not to fall into pride, hypocrisy, or legalism. The message also challenges Christians (grafted into God’s family) to honor Jewish roots, reject antisemitism, and embrace humility, repentance, and witness. The closing call is for personal evaluation: “Are you found in Jesus? Is His humility transforming you—a Jew, Gentile, or anyone—for public witness and life-giving impact today?” We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  Are You shaping culture by faithfully living out God’s word, or do you compromise and imitate popular trends to be "liked"—losing sight of what truly pleases God?? Ezekiel witnessed the leaders of Israel giving evil, self-serving advice and compromising truth for comfort and reputation, yet God still calls His people to walk set apart from surrounding nations and trends. The passage warns against being influenced by cultural pressures, urging believers to seek a "heart of flesh"—open, teachable, and controlled by the Holy Spirit through daily repentance and biblical foundation. The devotional challenges leaders and all believers to evaluate whether their decisions and witness reflect godly wisdom or just worldly acceptance. The prayer: Walk in Spirit-led newness each day and let God defend and advance His biblical values through your life—no matter the context or opposition.. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/

A Devotion for your drive into work:  Do today’s decisions focus on outward qualifications and appearance, or will an inward foundation—humbly transformed by the Holy Spirit—lead to real praise from God above all others? Pastor Brian teaches that true belonging in God’s family is not by outward ritual or human recognition, but by having a heart marked by repentance, surrender, and authentic devotion. The selection of David over his outwardly impressive brothers (1 Samuel 16) illustrates that God seeks inner change, not external status. The devotional calls believers to prioritize inward transformation over social validation, letting each prayer and decision advance God’s values at work and in the community. The concluding prayer asks for God to cultivate hearts fully surrendered and ready to make an impact for Christ wherever they serve. We are transforming our hearts so we can shape the public square. If you're interested in starting a public square ministry, check out these free resources - https://fpiw.org/public-square-ministry Donate Today - https://fpiw.bndlr.co/