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“Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.” — Jeremiah 18:3 (KJV)Kitchener B...
10/15/2026

“Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.” — Jeremiah 18:3 (KJV)

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📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: STAY ON THE WHEEL📅 DATE: October 15, 2026✍️ BY: Pastor Burns───────────────📜 KEY VERSE:"Then I wen...
10/15/2026

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: STAY ON THE WHEEL
📅 DATE: October 15, 2026
✍️ BY: Pastor Burns
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📜 KEY VERSE:
"Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels."
— Jeremiah 18:3

✨ DEVOTIONAL:
God sent Jeremiah to a potter’s house to hear a sermon. It was not preached in words. It was preached in clay.
Jeremiah found the potter at work “on the wheels.” When the vessel was marred in his hand, the potter did not throw the clay away. He “made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it” (Jeremiah 18:4).
Notice who does the work. The clay never shapes itself. Its part is to stay on the wheel and yield to the potter’s hands.
That is how God works with us. Paul says, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). He is shaping both what you want and what you do. Even if you have been marred, He is not finished with you.
But hard clay fights the potter’s hands. Maybe you have been resisting Him. A conviction from the preaching. A habit He keeps pressing on. A step of obedience you keep putting off.
Where is God’s hand pressing on your life right now?

🙏 PRAYER & APPLICATION:
Before you go to bed tonight, name that one area to the Lord. Pray, “Lord, I will not fight Your hands here,” and take the first step He has already shown you.

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🔗 Read more: http://kitchenerbaptist.org/devotional/stay-on-the-wheel/

10/14/2026

Wednesday Night Bible Study - October 14, 2026

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: A GOD YOU MADE CANNOT HELP YOU📅 DATE: October 14, 2026✍️ BY: Pastor Burns───────────────📜 KEY VERS...
10/14/2026

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: A GOD YOU MADE CANNOT HELP YOU
📅 DATE: October 14, 2026
✍️ BY: Pastor Burns
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📜 KEY VERSE:
"Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?"
— Jeremiah 16:20

✨ DEVOTIONAL:
Look at the word “make” in this verse. In the Hebrew it is a very common word. It means to do or to fashion something with your hands. It is the same word God uses in Exodus 20:4: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.”
That one word shows the problem Jeremiah is pointing out. A man takes wood or gold and makes a god. But the thing he made can never be greater than the man who made it. It cannot give him what he does not have himself. That is why Jeremiah calls them “no gods” at all.
The true God is the opposite. We did not make Him. He made us. Psalm 100:3 says, “it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves.”
Most of us have never carved an idol. But we can still make gods. We build our lives around a paycheque, a career, a relationship, our good name, or our own plans. We look to them for peace and safety. Then trouble comes, and they have nothing to give us. If you made it, it cannot save you.
Jeremiah knew this. Just before this verse he prayed, “O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction.” When trouble came, he did not run to something a man had made. He ran to the God who made everything.
So where do you run first? When the bad news comes, what do you reach for? Your answer may show you a god you did not know you had made.

🙏 PRAYER & APPLICATION:
Before you go to bed tonight, write down the first thing you lean on when you are worried. Then read Jeremiah 16:19 out loud, and tell the Lord that He alone is your refuge.

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🔗 Read more: http://kitchenerbaptist.org/devotional/a-god-you-made-cannot-help-you/

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: SUPPER ON THE TAILGATE📅 DATE: October 13, 2026✍️ BY: Pastor Burns───────────────📜 KEY VERSE:"Thou ...
10/13/2026

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: SUPPER ON THE TAILGATE
📅 DATE: October 13, 2026
✍️ BY: Pastor Burns
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📜 KEY VERSE:
"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over."
— Psalm 23:5

✨ DEVOTIONAL:
Ray was racing to get his last field of corn off before the rain. His wife drove out with a hot supper, set it on the tailgate, and said, “Sit down and eat. The field will still be here in ten minutes.” The work was not done, but supper came anyway.
David knew what it was to be fed before the trouble was over.
The Bible does not tell us exactly when he wrote this psalm. But think of the day he fled Jerusalem from his own son Absalom. An army was coming after him. Out in the wilderness, friends brought him beds, wheat, honey and cheese, “for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness” (2 Samuel 17:29). The danger had not gone away. Yet David sat down and ate.
That is the same picture we find in this verse. Just before it, David is walking “through the valley of the shadow of death” (v. 4). Now the Lord who led him like a shepherd sets a table for him, right where his enemies can see. They are still there, but they cannot stop the meal.
And that table is not thrown together in a hurry. The word “preparest” means to set in order, to arrange ahead of time. God planned His care for you before you ever got there. Nor does He give barely enough. He anoints David’s head like an honoured guest, and the cup runs over.
It is easy to think God will bless us once the trouble ends. But David found Him setting the table right in the middle of it. God does not wait for the battle to end before He feeds His children.
What has He set on your table this week, right in the middle of what is still unsettled?

🙏 PRAYER & APPLICATION:
Before your next meal today, name one trouble in your life that is not over yet. Then thank the Lord out loud for one thing He has provided for you right in the middle of it.

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🔗 Read more: http://kitchenerbaptist.org/devotional/a-table-in-the-presence/

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: MENDING THE NET📅 DATE: October 12, 2026✍️ BY: Pastor Burns───────────────📜 KEY VERSE:"Night and da...
10/12/2026

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: MENDING THE NET
📅 DATE: October 12, 2026
✍️ BY: Pastor Burns
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📜 KEY VERSE:
"Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?"
— 1 Thessalonians 3:10

✨ DEVOTIONAL:
“Perfect” can sound like a frightening word. When we hear it, we think of something with no flaws at all. But that is not what Paul meant here.
The Greek word means to mend, to put back in working order what has been torn. Matthew uses the same word when Jesus finds James and John in a ship with their father, “mending their nets.” Paul uses it again in Galatians 6:1, where a man overtaken in a fault is to be restored.
So when Paul prayed that he might “perfect that which is lacking,” he was not saying the faith of the Thessalonians was worthless. Timothy had just come back with good news. They were standing fast under affliction, and Paul was glad. But their net had a few torn places. They were confused about the Lord’s return, and they were grieving loved ones who had died. Paul longed to come to them and mend those places.
That shows us how God works. He does not throw away a torn net. He mends it.
Your faith has held, and the Lord has used it. But there may be a place where it has torn. It might be a promise you have quietly stopped believing, or a command you have read many times but never obeyed.
That is no reason for shame. It is simply the place the Lord wants to mend next. Paul did that mending by praying for them and writing to them. God still mends us the same way, through His Word, through prayer, and through His people.
So do not hide the torn place. Bring it to Him.

🙏 PRAYER & APPLICATION:
Before you go to bed tonight, name one torn place in your faith to the Lord in prayer. Then find one verse that speaks to it and write it down. This week, ask a believer you trust at church to pray with you about it.

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🔗 Read more: http://kitchenerbaptist.org/devotional/perfecting-what-is-lacking/

10/11/2026

Give Thanks Sunday - October 11, 2026

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: SEED IS MEANT TO BE SOWN📅 DATE: October 11, 2026✍️ BY: Pastor Burns───────────────📜 KEY VERSE:"Bei...
10/11/2026

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: SEED IS MEANT TO BE SOWN
📅 DATE: October 11, 2026
✍️ BY: Pastor Burns
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📜 KEY VERSE:
"Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God."
— 2 Corinthians 9:11

✨ DEVOTIONAL:
In 2005, April and I came to Kitchener fresh out of Bible college. Over the years the Lord let me serve here as children’s director, bus director, deacon, and assistant pastor under Pastor Philip Clayton. Then in 2011, I became the senior pastor.
When I look back on those years, I see that none of it started with me. Everything I have had to give, God gave me first: my Bible training, this church family, and a pastor who went before me. It was all seed, and God did not put it in my hands so I could keep it.
That is what Paul is teaching the Corinthians. They were asked to give to poor saints in Jerusalem they had never met. Just before our verse, Paul calls God the one “that ministereth seed to the sower.” God enriches His people “to all bountifulness,” a word that means simple, open-handed giving with no hidden motive. It is the same word translated “simplicity” in Romans 12:8.
A farmer does not lock his seed in the barn. He scatters it. Now look where this harvest comes up. The gift leaves Corinth, and thanksgiving rises to God in Jerusalem. It happens “through us,” Paul says.
Our flesh would rather count what we lack. But if you belong to Jesus, you have salvation, the Word of God, His presence, a church family, and daily bread from His hand. Even in a lean season, He still gives you seed to sow.
Thanksgiving is not only something you say to God. It is something you sow, so others will say it too.

🙏 PRAYER & APPLICATION:
Before supper tonight, think of one person in our church family who is having a hard time. Sow something into their life today, such as a meal, a card, or a phone call with a verse, so that they will have a reason to thank God.

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🔗 Read more: http://kitchenerbaptist.org/devotional/enriched-in-everything/

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: MARVELLOUS IN OUR EYES📅 DATE: October 10, 2026✍️ BY: Pastor Burns───────────────📜 KEY VERSE:"Jesus...
10/10/2026

📖 TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: MARVELLOUS IN OUR EYES
📅 DATE: October 10, 2026
✍️ BY: Pastor Burns
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📜 KEY VERSE:
"Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?"
— Matthew 21:42

✨ DEVOTIONAL:
When I picture the ancient stone masons at work on a foundation, I can see them tossing an awkward, rough-hewn block into the weeds because it did not fit their plans. Yet the Lord Jesus looked straight at the religious rulers of His day and asked, “Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?” What men counted worthless and cast aside, God made the chief cornerstone of eternity.
Sitting quietly by my wife’s side as she recovers from surgery, away from my usual routines, my mind keeps returning to how great this work of salvation really is. When life gets stripped down to the essentials, you quickly see what truly holds. Jesus Christ left the glories of Heaven, was despised and rejected of men, bore my sin upon Himself at Calvary, and gave me everlasting life. I did not earn a single scrap of it, and neither did you.
I need this truth deep in my soul today, and perhaps you do too. As John Gill noted, this scripture speaks directly of the rejection of our Messiah, yet God took that cross and made it our redemption. Salvation is not a project you and I must maintain by our own frail strength. It is the Lord’s doing from start to finish, and it is marvellous indeed.

🙏 PRAYER & APPLICATION:
Set aside five quiet minutes today to bow your head and thank the Saviour directly for dying in your place. Tell Him specifically that your hope rests entirely on His finished work, and let that truth steady your heart through whatever comes your way.

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🔗 Read more: http://kitchenerbaptist.org/devotional/marvellous-in-our-eyes/

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