Category Archives: Shared Devotions

READ: HEBREWS 12: 1-4 We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. (V. 2) The little boy’s father was a physically abusive alcoholic.  His mother was the consummate victim who was physically and emotionally battered from years of abuse by her husband.   The boy would come…

READ: 1 PETER 2: 21-25 Once you were wandering like lost sheep.  But now you have turned to your Shepherd, the Guardian of your souls.  (V. 25) Cortney Stewart, a columnist with the Citrus County Chronicle in Florida, wrote that all aspects of American life would be better if more people adopted shepherd like attitudes…

READ: GENESIS 8:1-15 But when Pharoah saw that relief had come, he became stubborn.  He refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord predicted.  (V. 15) My wife’s favorite creature is a frog.  We have a burnt wood picture of a frog, a jig saw framed picture of frogs of the rain…

READ: 1 SAMUEL 16: 1-13 As David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the olive oil he had brought with him and poured it on David’s head.  And the spirit of the Lord came upon him from that day on. (V.13) Jim, a Christian brother, contracted the COVID virus while working at the PA…

READ: 2 TIMOTHY 1: 3-12 That is why I am in prison.  But I am not ashamed of it, for I know the one in whom I trust, and am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return. (V. 12) Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th…

READ: GENESIS 22: 1-14 Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means the Lord will provide.) To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.” (V. 14) Malawi, a very small country of 21.4 million people in Southern Africa, continues to be one of…

READ: JAMES 4: 1-10 So, humble yourselves before God.  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (V. 7) There was a man standing adjacent to me at the self-service gas pumps of a local service station.  Just before we completed our respective transactions the man remarked, “Don’t know why people are filling up…

READ: ROMANS 10:5-13 Salvation that comes from trusting Christ-which is the message we preach-is within easy reach. (V.8) Being an avid golfer, I was reflecting on some of the comments made by John Rahm, US Open Champion. The tournament was conducted at the Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California.  He prevailed over the…

READ: ACTS 3: 37-47 And all the believers met together constantly sharing everything they had. (V.44) Spring arrived and my backyard was alive with a community of birds.  There are robins, blackbirds, cardinals, blue jays, doves, and the occasional hawk seeking todays “Blue-plate Special.”  The main community consumed worms and insects found in my lawn;…

READ: 1 KINGS 11: 26-39 & 1 KINGS 12: 25-30 Now this is what the Lord says to the family of Israel: Come back to me and live!” (Amos 5:4) Why would King Solomon, the son of David and the wisest man who ever lived, engage in what I call magical thinking?  He knowingly abandoned…