Devotion
Giving
There are many ways in which a person may give. They may give as if the giving was a grim sacrifice from which they cannot escape as much as they would like to, rather like having a tooth pulled. Or they may make it clear that the gift is being extracted from them and they […]
Nancy’s Christmas Dinner – And The Kingdom Of God
This is a first-person account from a mother about her family as they ate dinner on Christmas Day in a small restaurant many miles from their home. Nancy, the mother, relates: We were the only family with children in the restaurant. I sat Erik in a high chair and noticed everyone was quietly eating and […]
Boldness
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 2:30:1 Subject: Neil Anderson Devotional for Thursday, May 13, 1999 To: Dr. Rowland Croucher <> From: DEVOTIONALS.NET <> N E I L A N D E R S O N D A I L Y D E V O T I O N A L from Freedom in Christ Ministries […]
“Your Greatest Desire”
Read: Philippians 2:12-16 It is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. -Philippians 2:13 The slogan “If it feels good, do it” is pure hedonism – the philosophy that pleasure is the chief good of man. Although pleasure in itself is not wrong, it can lead to […]
Encouragement
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. […]
Scarred Love
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 817 (Moderate length) Scarred Love: A Message For Holy Week by Thomas F. Fischer The awe-filled Holy Week has come again. Though Christians throughout the world observe it in a most traditional fashion, the repeated remembrance is anything but routine. The glorious but humble entrance into the Holy City on a donkey […]
“Check Your Sources”
Read: Psalm 119:89-96 Forever, O Lord, Your Word is settled in heaven. -Psalm 119:89 Someone has written a poem that talks about the problem of using a spell-checking program on a computer. The first stanza says: I have a spelling checker I disk covered four my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss […]
Hope
N E I L A N D E R S O N D A I L Y D E V O T I O N A L from Freedom in Christ MinistriesApril 1HOPE FOR TODAY AND TOMORROWBeloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared asyet what we shall be. We […]
“Real Peace”
Read: Romans 5:1-11 Having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. -Romans 5:1 Rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix led a promiscuous life, indulging in drugs and behaving outrageously on and off the stage. At the end of a concert in 1970, Jimi smashed his guitar. According to Robert McGee […]
Easter
Cleaning Up the Mess We Make of God’s World (An Easter message from the Moderator of the New South Wales Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia, the Rev. Dr David Manton) The other day I was having a cup of coffee and some fun doing a simple crossword as quickly as I could, and […]
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