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It’s the day after Christmas. The glow on the tree is just a little dimmer because the anticipation of the day is now past. So often, we act as though Christmas ends on the evening of December 25. “Now, ladies and gentlemen, please turn your attention to our after-Christmas clearance sales, football games, and New Year’s Eve parties.” But there’s a lot wrong with shutting down the Christmas spirit the day after. No wonder people get the Christmas blues. To…
Weekly Devotional
Advent Devotional for JOY by Netha LarsenDear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider itan opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, yourendurance has a chance to grow. James 1: 2-3I know what you’re thinking…why would I choose this particular bible verse for anAdvent devotional? Joy is a feeling that most people associate with the seasonof Advent. But what about feeling joy during the hard and difficult times, duringthe…
Daily Devotional: June 10th, 2021
Conversational Dinner They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. – Acts 2:42 We often have an image of Jesus breaking bread in the manner of the last supper. When Jesus pronounces, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” (1 Corinthians 11:24), we tend to overlook the rest of the dinner. Can you just imagine the conversations around the table that were happening following Jesus…
Daily Devotional: June 9th, 2021
Finding Strength The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. – Habakkuk 3:19 Have you ever woke up on the wrong side of the bed? Had one of those mornings where it seems nothing is going right? I know that I’ve had my fair share of those days, seeking anything to remedy my situation. An extra cup of coffee, that energy bar, or just taking a…
Daily Devotional: June 8th, 2021
Tears to Joy Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. – Psalms 126:5 Often we associate tears with sorrow and sadness. When we’re in these times of sorrow, it can be hard to find the light at the end of the tunnel and we can also hold in our emotions. Today’s verse from Psalms teaches us that we need to let go of our tears during these trying times because they do make it easier for us…
Daily Devotional October 10th, 2020
Where is your Trust? Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock. – Isaiah 26:4 Humans are fickle. We build our houses in places we know aren’t safe. We do it because we’re enticed by the beauty of the land, only to regret our decision when a natural disaster hits. We do the same with our faith. Isaiah tells us to “Trust in the Lord always…”, but we know that this implicit trust is hard…
Daily Devotional: October 2nd, 2020
What Have You Prayed For Today? And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God. – Philippians 1:9-11 We all tend to pray for something in our lives. Healing, strength, and countless other things, but…
Daily Devotional: September 30th, 2020
Where Do You Speak From? If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. – Romans 10:9-10 There’s many places you can speak from, most of us struggle with the battle between speaking from our mind and speaking what’s on our hearts. We…
Daily Devotional: September 28th, 2020
I Hate Mondays Garfield had it right, I hate Mondays, in matter of fact I’m not the only one who gets the “Monday Blues” according to inc. Why is Monday such a drag on us both physically and emotionally at times? There’s a few scientific reasons for it. “Misery Loves Company” we are social creatures that tend to adapt to the behaviors of the people surrounding us, if your coworkers, spouse, or friends don’t like Mondays then you’re more predisposed…
Daily Devotional: September 27th, 2020
Written by OS Hillman for Today God is First A Shoe Salesman Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’ – Matthew 19:26 Dwight L. Moody was a poorly educated, unordained, shoe salesman who felt God’s call to preach the gospel. Early one morning he and some friends gathered in a hay field for a season of prayer, confession, and consecration. His friend Henry Varley said, “The world has yet…
Daily Devotional: September 25th, 2020
Preaching Like a Disciple He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. – Mark 16:15 When we think of preaching the gospel to all of the world we see tend to think of a preacher standing in front of a crowd preaching the word to their congregation. What we tend to forget is the subtle suggestion that preaching the gospel doesn’t necessarily require us to stand in front of a crowd, nor…
Daily Devotional: March 12th, 2020
Teaching Our Youth Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:7 Did you Know? Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher who wrote a treatise on vibrating bodies at nine years old; his first proof, on a wall with a piece of coal, at 11 years old; and a theorem by 16 years…
