“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him,…
View More The Perfect WordCategory: Friday Devotionals
What Am I Missing?
I have taught piano for over 40 years. So many children, a few adults, some were memorable, a few hard to forget. One little boy’s…
View More What Am I Missing?Authorities, Attitudes, and Pleasing God
Have you ever tried to use your service or status within the church or organization to make a point? As a long-time church member and…
View More Authorities, Attitudes, and Pleasing GodDouble-Decker, Chocolate-Frosted Cake
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15 It was my 12th birthday and my mom’s 50th. (Yes, we share a…
View More Double-Decker, Chocolate-Frosted CakeWild Prayer
I’ll never forget that moment, now more than 15 years ago. I was a freshman in college sitting on my bed and studying late at…
View More Wild PrayerCasting Up Prayers
Our family has had a particularly stressful few years. One afternoon my husband and two teenage daughters reflected on how the women in our family…
View More Casting Up PrayersPrerequisite for Prayer
In college it didn’t take me too long to learn what the term “prerequisite” meant. When I looked through the academic catalogue—yes, that was in…
View More Prerequisite for PrayerFruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual Gifts
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart…
View More Fruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual GiftsPraying for What is Lost
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost,” Luke 19:10 Have you ever used the self-checkout lanes in Walmart? I…
View More Praying for What is LostWhat I Learned through Recent Struggles
“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing,” 1 Thessalonians 5:11. During the last six months, I have been…
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