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".
Asking the Right Questions
We three brothers crouched snugly in a booth at a local restaurant rehashing old memories and considering life’s complexities and our current situations. We were doing what we hadn’t done in years-spending alone time together in the same place at the same time.
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Soul Food
Rice smothered (yes on top) with green beans, lima beans, collard greens, turnip greens, blackeye peas or gravy. But where they sit is not as important as how they’re prepared. These healthy vegetables must be transformed with sugar, salt, and cooking oil.
And the...
Doubting God
I’m a logical kind of a fella who likes proof. If I can’t sniff it, grab it, glare at it, hear it or chew it, I have trouble believing it exists. A skeptical skeptic.
If someone proposes, “God created the earth out of nothing,” I’m tempted...
Lifelong Productivity
Spring. Trees budding. Flowers blooming. Freshly plowed fields embedded with fruit-bearing seed. Youthful vigor. The sun’s warming rays. Life at its finest. Invincibility.
Summer. Unbearable heat. Incipient fruit dangling from trees awaiting fall. Busyness....
Friendship’s Power
U-Hauls, moving vans, pick-ups, loaded cars, and farm trucks. All familiar items. My father’s profession-along with his uncertainty over whether God wanted him to be a pastor or full-time evangelist, made frequent moves a normal and unpleasant element of my childhood.
Don’t Stifle God’s Power
I marveled as the salesman stuffed the six foot bulk of material into a sack half its size, thinking I’d never be able to repeat his artful action.
Stuffing a sleeping bag isn’t as effortless as it may appear when done by an experienced salesman or camper as...
Thankful Always
Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus (I Thessalonians 5:18 NLT).
“Seriously God? Be thankful in all circumstances?”
“Yes.”
“Even when...
Persevering in Prayer
My knees are bad, and if I lay on the floor to do it, I probably couldn’t get up. But when I try my comfortable bed, I often fail too. There are days when I simply don’t feel like doing it. Sometimes God feels near when I’m doing it and at other times he seems distant. I...
Accepting God’s Plan
He was walking to church when he was seized and carted off to jail by communist government officials. Accepting God’s plan isn’t always easy.
Richard Wurmbrand was a pastor serving in communist Romania in 1948. His first arrest lasted eight and one half years...
The Best Gift
Small gifts can be life-changing.
One of my favorite Christmas movies is The Christmas Shoes-the story of a busy attorney climbing the corporate ladder and a terminally ill mom celebrating her final Christmas. After revealing her condition, her son begins the search for...
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