Devotions

26 Jesus also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like...  I am sure people listening to Jesus were expecting something profound and amazing.  If it was 2019, I am sure we would expect to hear the Kingdom of God is like Wakanda (home of the Black Panther) or...

I came to the conclusion some time ago that I will almost certainly meet my demise in a fiery wreck of some sort. I can't tell you the number of near-catastrophic crashes I've experienced in my car, on my bike, or on foot. These have ranged from rabid dogs, to...

When I was a child and heard the stories in church about worshiping idols, I imagined the traditional carved statues and mini tikis, like on the Brady Bunch.  These were things I never saw much of in real life, so imagined I did not have an issue with this in my...

Joshua was born a slave. He was taught to believe he was property.  It was all his family had known for 400 years.  Then one day a man who grew up in the royalty of Egypt named Moses demands this nation of slaves be set free.  Pharaoh of course refuses.  Then Joshua...

1 Kings 19:21 New International Version (NIV) 21 So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his...

Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for...