Devotional

Read the Word: Ephesians 4:17-24 Meditate on the Word: In the New Year, it is often customary to make “New Year’s Resolutions” about what we intend to do in the new year. These are often some sort of self-improvement. The phrase used may be “new year-new you,” but in actuality, most people just want to… Read More »

Read the Word: Isaiah 42:10-17 Meditate on the Word: When I was 19, I was working for a national chain of pizza restaurants. The first time I opened by myself, I did not do all the right things in the right order. This can seem like not too big a deal, but what it meant… Read More »

Read the Word: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Meditate on the Word: How comforting are the words of verse 34, “I will forgive their iniquity and never more remember their sin.” Wouldn’t it be great if we possessed that ability? Of course we can forgive, but how often can we truly “never more remember” the sin that someone… Read More »

Read the Word: Luke 7:31-35 Meditate on the Word: I find it somewhat amusing that Jesus referred to people in his day as being like children throwing accusations at each other. One could say that our current society is much like that. If social media is the contemporary town square, then its participants are like… Read More »

Read the Word: Numbers 16:20-35 Meditate on the Word: Korah, Dathan, and Abiram had challenged the authority of Moses and Aaron. It seems that they were not happy with what God had done for them. They blamed Moses for bringing them out of a good land (Egypt) and into the desert. They thought they could… Read More »

Read the Word: Isaiah 11:1-9 Meditate on the Word: It is not very hard to think of a long list of earthly rulers who have not been godly. Nearly since the invention of the government, there have been those who have sought to use their rule to their advantage. Some have become dictators who use… Read More »

Read the Word: Isaiah 35:3-7 Meditate on the Word: I have long been fascinated with abandoned buildings. I am apparently not alone because there have been TV documentaries exploring these places and social media personalities who tour abandoned malls, hospitals, schools, amusement parks, etc. Places that were once full of life and activity that closed… Read More »

Read the Word: 2 Peter 1:2-15 Meditate on the Word: I was once in a play where it was obvious that the girl playing one of the main characters had never bothered to learn her lines and had never taken practice seriously. It was seriously embarrassing to watch and participate in the farce of a… Read More »

Read the Word: Romans 8:22-25 Meditate on the Word: The world is a painful place with sickness, sadness, and suffering. This is all the result of sin. When God created the world, He made it good. This means perfect, without blemish. Humans brought sin into the world and have been suffering the results of it… Read More »

Read the Word: Malachi 3:13-18 Meditate on the Word: Have you ever broken a rule when an authority figure was not looking? I used to love to drive on the stretched of long, straight highway back home late at night. There were few police, and I could generally get away with going significantly over the… Read More »