Devotionals

Saturday, February 28   In our prayers for you we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 4for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,5because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. You have heard of this hope […]

Friday, February 27   “See what large letters I make when I am writing in my own hand! [Galatians 6:1] Towards the end of Galatians, Paul stops dictating a letter to a scribe and begins writing by hand. He then calls attention to his own “unprofessional” handwriting as a way to claim authority. It seems […]

Thursday, February 26 “Blessing Bird” Yet those who wait for God will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.–Isaiah 40:30 Wings out spread blessing all praying for peace daring to hope for a world restored. I stand […]

Wednesday, February 25 “Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God.”   –1 John 4:7         I remember well a conversation I had a few years back, right there in our church kitchen. One of our good friends had recently gone through a most difficult situation. I wished I […]

Tuesday, February 24  “The Gift at the End” …then the Lord God formed man [“adama”–the human one] from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.  Genesis 2:7 One of the people I’ve admired most for his wisdom, understanding, compassion and undiminished […]

  Monday, February 23   “Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to […]

Sunday, February 22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. […]

Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015   “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.”  –Hebrews 13:2     I was trying hard not to cry.  An hour before, I had joined the crowd of people lining up against the wall; someone had spread the rumor […]

Friday, Feb 20 When Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the realm of God.”  Matthew 10:14   Will you miss me when I’m gone? Did you even know that I was here? I don’t have flashy feathers […]

Thursday, February 19, 2015  The Road to Sacredness …and in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as one carries a child, all the way that you traveled until you reached this place.   Deuteronomy 1:31 Sometimes it’s not the words spoken that make a conversation sacred so much […]