It’s one of those facts of life: If you have a pet, you eventually will have to deal with its death. If you’ve stumbled upon this devo, it’s likely you or someone close to you has lost a pet. It’s a real hurt and a deep grief. Pets are always there for us. Even a recalcitrant cat has his way of offering … [Read more...]
The Power of a Word
It was shortly after dinner that I received a panicked message from one of my students. “I think I might be fired from my job.” It seems that he had gotten into a bad situation with his employer over some things he had been posting on social media. In that moment the reality settled in that there wasn’t much he could do to take … [Read more...]
A Pop-Up Holy Wow Moment
Stop what you’re doing. Take 10 minutes to breathe in Ephesians 2:10. Consider it a personal flash mob devotional moment. There is some Wow to be had in this verse. First the whole verse, then we’ll step into it phrase-by-phrase. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God … [Read more...]
4 Reasons You Can Trust the Bible
Today, perhaps more than ever, we hear questions about or objections to the Bible. And let’s be honest, a book that is thousands of years old, written by different people in different cultures and languages can generate a lot of skepticism. So, how do we know we can trust it? 1. Digging in: The main focus and … [Read more...]
How Far Is Too Far?
One thing is clear throughout Scripture: God doesn’t want His people thinking and acting like the world around them. If there’s no difference between believers and nonbelievers, how will nonbelievers see God? Beginning in Exodus and continuing throughout the Bible, God said, “Be holy, for I am holy!” the book of 1 Thessalonians … [Read more...]
Gaining Courage
Just a few weeks after Jesus’ resurrection, the Holy Spirit rocked the world of the new believers in Acts 2. In Acts 3, the apostles began performing some of the same miracles that Jesus had done. This included healing a lame man in the “name of Jesus”---a name that disturbed the Jewish leaders, since they thought they’d dealt … [Read more...]
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