Category: Devotional

1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. Paul was speaking to the people. He is reminding them of when he first came to them, who he spoke of. Paul spoke only of Jesus and His crucifixion on the cross for the sins of the world. Paul […]

Luke 4:1-2 Now Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry. So many times people will look at how difficult their […]

Psalm 40:8 I delight to do Your will, my God; Your Law is within my heart.” All people should strongly desire to serve the Lord. After all, He created us. He gave us life and desires us to live it to the fullest. But, how do we actually serve the Lord? That really varies. Serving the […]

1 Samuel 3:9 And Eli said to Samuel, “Go lie down, and it shall be if He calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place. Young Samuel was lying in bed and he heard his name called. He went to see […]

2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, mend your ways, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. The 1960’s was an unusual time. Young adults in their teens and twenties loudly proclaimed it was a time of love and peace. They wore colorful […]

Genesis 11:5-7 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they […]

Acts 26:14 And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew dialect, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? Paul was a tough dude for the Pharisees. He was going around rounding up any Christians he could find and throwing them into prison. Then, while […]

It’s an unfortunate, far-too-common tale… A loved one passes away, and in the aftermath, family chaos ensues. Bickering. Drama. Hurt feelings. Broken relationships. Legal battles. In his book Splitting Heirs, Ron Blue suggests a simple but often neglected solution: a family meeting. A family meeting paves the way for healthy dialogue about your values, goals […]