Devotionals

"The memory of the righteous will be a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot." Proverbs 10:7 "I thank my God every time I remember you." Philippians 1:3 What an emotional sight for me and my wife, less than two years ago, to stand above and on the »

"I will mock when calamity overtakes you--when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster overtakes you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me. Since they hated »

"How can I repay the Lord for all his goodness to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord." Psalm 116:12-13 Our number 13 grandchild was welcomed into the sight of the world this last Saturday; our sight of him and »

"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." Revelation 3:20 If you had lived in Palestine in the early first century, it is unlikely you would have »

"The next day...the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. "Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.' So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples »

“I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and, so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3:10 We staked a four foot cross of old barn wood in our »

Jesus said to His disciples: “Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice and no one will take away your joy. John 16:22 “Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you »

“Now the crowd that was with him when He called Lazarus from his tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. Many people, because they had heard that he had given this miraculous sign, went out to meet him. So the Pharisees said to one another, »

“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. Be always on the watch, and »

“Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast.’ None of the disciples dared ask him, ‘Who are you?’ They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. John 21:12-13 “But just as he who called »

“So Lot chose for himself [after Abraham gave him first choice] the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: Abraham lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. »

"Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil." Luke 4:1 Recently an American public school was forced by a threatened law suit brought by atheists to remove or greatly »