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".
Christmas Far Away
With the exception of a few months following my birth, I had always lived in South Carolina near my grandparents. But the early 1970’s ushered in a few Christmases that were far away. Celebrating Christmas with parents that love you is enjoyable, but parents don’t normally spoil...
Christmas’s Perfect Gift
I’m not sure exactly when she started giving her perfect Christmas gifts to me, but it became a tradition I anticipate each year.
Somewhere during her middle school years, my daughter began making homemade Christmas gifts for me. At her age, she had no...
The Christmas Gift
His eyes welled with tears as he opened the envelope. The gift was the most unselfish act he’d ever witnessed.
Harry* was about to experience the most agonizing Christmas of his life. A few months before he had taken out a consolidation loan. The loan seemed like...
Thanking God Properly
November—and Thanksgiving particularly, is the month Americans choose to show their thankfulness. But honestly, there have been days, months, and years when expressing thankfulness was difficult.
The year my son left to live with his mother was a difficult year to...
Responding to God
Mom and Dad did it by using a buckle free black belt and restricting me from things I enjoyed.
My parents didn’t distinguish between punishment and discipline as some do. In their mind, both were synonymous. And regardless of what they or anyone else called it,...
Fall Back Not Under
Germany and its World War I Allies began the practice on April 30, 1916, as a way to conserve coal. America soon followed suit.
When I was a child, I relished the extra daylight hours Daylight Savings Time provided. There was more time to play outside with my friends....
Praising Though Pain
Praising God when things are going well is easy; praising him in painful situations is more difficult—some think impossible.
My wife and I discovered this after inviting our adult son to live with us. Having been kicked out of his residence for using drugs, he had...
Living with Purpose
I’ve never been one, but I hear it’s an exhilarating experience. And as of February 21, 2013, I entered the “Grandpa (or more appropriately ‘Pee Paw’) world.”
Levi Andrew Wiles entered our universe in Anderson, South Carolina, at 1:24...
God’s Guardrail
Have you ever thanked God for a guardrail? I’m not sure I have, but I know my grandfather did.
My uncle, aunt, and cousins enjoyed traveling to the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Places like Cherokee, North Carolina, and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Sites...
Born for a Purpose
She had never met him before, but she cared for him as if he was the most important person in the world.
Ann* knew she was going to be a single mother in eight months. While she regretted the unfortunate decision that produced the baby inside her, she didn’t...
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