Recent Devotions
“So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12, ESV) Hester Ford, the oldest living person in the United States, died in 2021 at the age of 115 or possibly 116 (conflicting records). She lived a lot of days and saw things that are only history to most of us: two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Spanish flu to the coronavirus. Who is the oldest person you have personally known? For me, I think it was a sweet, committed child of God who reached an amazing 103 years. She has…
“Let brotherly love continue.” (Hebrews 13:1) Yesterday we talked about the love of God and the many ways He demonstrates that love to us. Today let’s take a few moments to talk about loving each other and how that looks in our daily life. Numerous passages in the Bible talk…
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor…
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The use of euphemistic speech has nearly deserted us in this tell-all, bare-all, no-holds-barred world in which we live. I am so saddened by the lack of tact and decorum in our behaviors and conversations. We think nothing of talking about “unmentionables” in public and in ‘mixed company’ (males and females in the same conversational circle). We use terms that would have made our grandmothers blush. We don’t bother to preserve someone’s sensitive stomach when we talk graphically of losing the contents of ours (think regurgitate). And yet, in spite of all our bold speech, we hesitate to call something…
And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow, and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.” (Luke 22:39-40, 45-46, ESV) At the end of the Passover meal, Jesus set out for the Mount of Olives “as was his custom.” The disciples,…
“To whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” (Acts 1:3, NKJV) I grow weary of listening to the daily news. Many times, I wonder whether the reporter is giving a true report of events or is just presenting a slanted view as the truth. The two are not the same. One is based on indisputable fact while the other may be biased toward a certain point of view. It leaves the listener questioning what to believe…
“For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord there” (I Samuel 1:27-28). This scripture, lifted from the story of the birth of Samuel, who was destined to become a great spiritual leader to the children of Israel, is really a story of the prayer of every mother with a heart for the kingdom, prayed for every child. There is something born in the heart…
