Devotionals

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame. -Romans 10:11 When my oldest daughter was two years old, she and I were playing hide and seek in the walled back yard of our Edinburgh, Scotland home. It was her turn to hide, and she couldn’t find a »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. -2 Corinthians 7:10 My good friend Bob Petterson has written a fascinating book, The One Year Book of Amazing Stories. His very first story is set in Germany in the winter of 1894 »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“From one man He made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. -Acts 17:26 When you meet a stranger, one of the questions you always ask is, “Where are you from? We »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“He said, ‘If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of His feet. -Nahum 1:3 Everyone wants to be treated fairly. They want justice for themselves and also »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: ‘The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat!’ -2 Thessalonians 3:10 Would Paul and the Bible have been acceptable to modern day politically-correct pundits? After all, the welfare society has ruled out the necessity of work »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour. -Matthew 25:13 What a master storyteller Jesus was and is! His parables were well-crafted to both intrigue His hearers, because they were drawn from pictures common to first century Jewish life, as well as always elucidating a »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Enoch walked faithfully with God, and then he was no more, because God took him away. -Genesis 5:24 It is said there are only two certain things in life: death and taxes. But for at least two who lived previously, these two never knew death. Enoch and Elijah never passed »