Devotionals
Devotionals
Establishing daily devotionals is a key to growing closer to God and experiencing more victory and peace in your life! Take a few minutes each day to be alone with God and prayerfully read one of these daily "devos".
A Parent’s Advice
“Get a good education.” “Go to college.” “Be neat in your appearance.” “Obey your parents.”
All pieces of my parent’s advice to me. Their demands seemed overbearing. I hated school, and the thought of attending...
What Fear Does
Darkness and silence saturated the three-sided shelter my son and I slept in until the silence was shattered by banging pots and wild yelling.
We were on the Appalachian Trail and out for an overnight hike. My son wasn’t a fan of backpacking but had reluctantly...
Discovering God’s Purpose
I’m not very proficient at math, but this I know: the correct answer comes only by following the proper procedure.
For the first time this year, a grammar and Bible teacher had to teach a sixth grade math class. I accepted the challenge thinking: “How hard...
Discovering God’s Purpose
I’m not very proficient at math, but this I know: the correct answer comes only by following the proper procedure.
For the first time this year, a grammar and Bible teacher had to teach a sixth grade math class. I accepted the challenge thinking: “How hard...
Don’t Drive When I Am
With a smirky smile and a cutting glance, she said, “RUTD” (an invented acronym meaning Resist the Urge to Drive).
My wife and I were on a one-day excursion to the mountains. She was driving, and the acronym was to remind me I wasn’t. By her own...
Coming to Grips With the Workplace
I was crawling under houses where busted sewage lines, crawling snakes, dangling spiders, and choking dust loved to hang out. I hated every day the alarm clock screamed because I knew I had to go where I desperately despised. After six months, I walked out. But not everyone can.
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Never Beyond Grace
"I sinned with a high hand,” he said.
Though nurtured by a Christian mother during his early years, John Newton followed in his father’s image after his mother died of tuberculosis. He lost his first job with the merchant navy because of "unsettled...
The Hundred Dollar Book
I couldn’t believe it when he handed me a one hundred dollar bill for a ten dollar book.
I had just finished speaking and promoting my latest book. People were now lined up at the table wanting to purchase a copy—and even wanting me to place my signature in...
Depression’s Deception
Things don’t have to be bad for it to sneak up. In fact, life can be good.
Elijah was the man of the hour. When God wanted to punish his people for their disobedience, Elijah was the one he used to announce a drought. God then demonstrated that he’d take care...
Lifting the Fallen
“We don’t want to tell you to resign, but we think you should.”
My profession and family life were hanging in the balance, yet this was the group’s decision…a group who largely determined whether I’d sink or swim. If they cared about...
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