Devotionals

As we raise our children we certainly don’t want them to be contentious, but we do want them to be prepared for conflict.  We hope to train our children to be tough.  There is a time for everything, including a time for war, and battles require warriors.  In some of King David’s final words he recounted the names of specific soldiers that served with [...]

Did you ever bring a friend home and your mother pull out a childhood photo album?  You were probably mortified.  Have you ever been asked the question, “What was your most embarrassing moment?”  The underlying assumption, of course, is that the other person will share there’s as well.  The goal is to break through walls we’ve crafted that help to project the image we [...]

Endurance race athletes will sometimes experience something called “bonking.”  Another way of saying it is that they “hit the wall.”  Dr. William Apollo describes it as a “sensation of sudden and overwhelming weakness and fatigue that is typically caused by dehydration and/or depletion of energy stores from the muscles and liver. That effect is basically the endurance athlete’s kryptonite – when it hits us, [...]

You probably know the popular song that has this title.  The first verse goes like this: How lovely on the mountains are the feet of Him, Who brings good news, good news. Announcing peace, proclaiming news of happiness. Our God reigns; our God reigns! It’s a beautiful song with uplifting, scriptural words and a cheerful tune.  It’s interesting, however, to examine the words in [...]

Paul’s introduction in 1 Corinthians may appear routine, but it is quite instructive.  It reads, “To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours” (1 Corinthians 1:2) Note its specificity.  The letter [...]

Everything has context, but time may be more susceptible to that than anything.  Time in an infant’s world extends about five seconds, for a college student maybe a five-year outlook, for the middle-aged it’s captured in decades and the most elderly among us think of it generationally.  States on the east coast treat the western U.S. like they’re late to the party when, in reality, all [...]