Recent Devotions
“When Herod was about to bring him out for trial, that very night Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.” (Acts 12:6, CSB) Insomnia. I dislike those nights when my brain refuses to go into sleep mode, and I toss and turn for what seems like hours. Stir in a few worries and it becomes a miserable night. Why do problems seem so much heavier in the hours before dawn? Ever been there? Acts 12 tells us about the arrest and imprisonment of Peter. Herod had…
“I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.” (John 9:4, NKJV) A friend of mine recently left to take the gospel to another nation. It was not a sudden decision at all. From the teen years on,…
“Obey your spiritual leaders, and do what they say. Their work is to watch over your souls, and they are accountable to God. Give them reason to do this with joy and not with sorrow. That would certainly not be for your benefit.” (Hebrews 13:17, NLT) When Great Britian’s King…
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“You’ve seen a lot, but looked at nothing. You’ve heard everything, but listened to nothing.” Isaiah 42:20 MSG My oldest daughter is at that age where she talks a lot, and I mean a lot. She has slowly morphed from a shy, timid little girl into a social, chatty butterfly. Don’t get me wrong, I love having lengthy discussions about everything possible with her, but I do catch my thoughts drifting off sometimes mid-conversation. We as humans have become quite adept at hearing but not listening, and seeing but not genuinely soaking in what we are witnessing. I believe the…
“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Hebrews 11:6 In the last few days, we have taken a journey into the past and looked at a few well-known Bible characters and what they experienced. I intended to look closely at Hebrews 11, and I was having a struggle to start writing. Then the Lord dropped two words into my mind, – Strange Requests. The more I thought about it, the more Bible names kept coming…
“But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.” (Romans 8:25, ESV) I’ve quit rushing. Well, at least some of the time. I still look for the shorter line at the grocery store, but I just as frequently will motion someone with only a few items ahead of me. No, I’m not an angel in disguise; I just try not to worry about delays. Some days I succeed better than others. We live in an impatient world. Someone has called this the “microwave generation” because we have come to expect instant gratification. When…
We throw a lot of things away. The average American throws away three to four pounds of trash per day. Howstuffworks.com states, “Let’s assume that there are 300 million people living in the United States. This means that, in one year, 300 million people, each producing 3.5 pounds of trash per day, create something like 18,433,779,281 cubic feet of trash, which is a lot. If you made the pile 400 feet deep (as tall as a 40-story building), it would cover more than 1,000 acres of land.” https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/one-giant-landfill.htm However, we throw things away (all the time) that can be reused,…
