I’m working through updating our first devotional, 40 Days Of Spiritual Awareness. The following is from Day 33, entitled “The Peace of Jesus.” I imagine many of those reading this are going through troublesome times. There’s a lot of sickness and disease, and maybe because I’m getting old, it seems like it comes around a …
Category: Devotions
Credit That Never Runs Out
A few months ago, I purchased a cute little round table for our kitchen, in anticipation of hosting all five of our grandchildren. The tall pub-height table with two barstools just wasn’t going to work. Obviously, this wasn’t “high-end” furniture; I had to screw on the legs, but it worked well in the space and …
The Lens Of The Resurrection
Today, Todd and I have been married for thirty-eight years! It’s a miracle, really, that two people who are so different in preferences and opinions about almost everything could stay happily married for this long. How did we do it? Well, we didn’t. God did. Todd and I may disagree on a lot of things, …
Transformation
Peter, James, and John were Jesus’ “inner circle” of disciples. They were invited to know Jesus in a more intimate, personal way. Often, Jesus would take the three of them aside, or with Him as He taught and ministered. As Matthew, Mark, and Luke all tell us, only these three were privileged to go up …
You’re Making History
“Today is history.” A friend made this remark in passing recently and it occurred to me that we often think of “history” as a record of things done by great people – accomplishments that change the course of culture and the world. We “study” history by reading books and accounts of extraordinary events but sometimes …
The Way Of The Word 