Devotionals

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This has been a hot summer in most places across the country. Glasses of water have been in great demand lately.  In recent days the heat has contributed to the ripe conditions for forest fires in the West, drought conditions and scorched crops in the Midwest, along with power »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Carmelite monk of the seventeenth century known as Brother Lawrence wrote a Christian Classic titled Practicing the Presence of God. It’s still in print after 300 years. Practicing the presence of the devil could be taken as the opposite of practicing God’s presence, but that is not what »

“There just isn’t enough time in the day; so goes our common excuse. “Where did the time go, we ask. You and I are creatures of time. Even those who think they are not bound by it are; they can’t escape it. Using our time well is a constant battle. »

Happy Birthday to arguably the greatest country in the history of the world! America has been far more blessed, far more powerful, and used by God for far more good in the world than any nation before her. Yet if the present trend continues America will soon pass from the »

  Colorado is ablaze in forest fires. Our own home was put under a sudden order of evacuation on Tuesday night with the fear that it could be burned to the ground, though we were not there to remove any irreplaceable family items. This particular fire, called the Waldo Canyon »

In a letter to a friend, C.S. Lewis wrote: “It is astonishing that sometimes we believe that we believe what, really, in our heart we do not believe. He went on to explain, “For a long time I believed that I believed in the forgiveness of sins. But suddenly (on »

One has to cringe with fear at the words of Hebrews 6:1-8 if you genuinely take the warning of these eight verses to heart. Many students of the Bible have struggled with the correct understanding of this warning, especially when you believe in the perseverance of the saints, a biblical »

Strokes just happen; they do not give any prior warning. I know; I just had one. One instant things were fine; the next it was over, leaving its mark. Fortunately, it was a small one. As I was explaining my mother’s history of strokes to my doctor, I said “She »

It is one of the most amazing accounts in the Bible, and absolutely one of my favorites: the last Chapter of the Gospel of John. Seven men in the most natural setting you can imagine talked and ate with a risen Jesus; He whom they knew to be crucified and »

Blood and gore; maggots and worms. Cinematography, the art and science of creating movies on the big screen and television, has come a long way in one century. It has progressed from the herky-jerky silent screen to producing almost anything the eye can imagine; and it can depict death in »

Uncivil discourse is once again in the headlines, if indeed it ever left it, especially when the attention-drawing offending words came from a famous conservative pundit. Is this not always the case, the conservative draws the ire of the media while previous far more vile remarks do not even raise »

Pomp entices us; it draws us into its glitz, pageantry, and spectacular displays. Who doesn’t like a parade? Who is not thrilled to receive an invitation to an Inaugural Ball for a recently elected President, or a Royal Wedding, or a personal audience with the Pope at the Vatican? Who »