Devotion
Anyway
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered: forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone may try to destroy overnight; build anyway. If you find serenity […]
Credit
Do you ever get the feeling as you watch TV or read the newspaper that no matter what you want to buy, it’s yours for the asking? That isn’t surprising because the objective of banks, finance institutions and major retail chains is to convince you that you don’t need cash. Instant credit is now available. […]
Repentance
A Christian is a person who has the possibility of innumerable new starts. Francis Schaeffer If you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns. Author Unknown Every time we say, ‘I believe in the Holy Spirit,’ we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality […]
A Common Language
Read: Matthew 26:17-29 This is My body….This is My blood of the new covenant. -Matt. 26:26,28 A young Russian woman had been sent to a hospital in Japan for a rare, life-saving procedure. After she arrived she couldn’t stop crying. The doctors and nurses, who didn’t speak Russian, were unable to console her. Finally they […]
Who’s Winning?
Read: Hebrews 10:5-10 I delight to do Your will, O my God. -Psalm 40:8 I had a dog whose favorite game was to play tug-of-war with a rubber pull-toy. She would grip one end of the toy with her teeth, and I would grip the other end with my hand. Because she was a small […]
In His Control
Read: Matthew 6:24-34 Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. -Matthew 6:32 While waiting for a tire to be repaired, I began talking with a man who farmed nearby. "Sure need rain," he said. "Don’t know what we’re gonna do if it doesn’t rain." "A lot different from last year," I said. […]
Tomorrow
I may never see tomorrow, there’s no guarantee, And things that happened yesterday belong to history. I can’t predict the future, I can’t change the past, I have just the present memories to treat as my last. I must use this moment wisely, for soon it will pass away, And be lost forever as a […]
Repentance
The New Testament word for repentance means changing one’s mind so that one’s views, values, goals, and ways are changed and one’s whole life is lived differently. The change is radical, both inwardly and outwardly; mind and judgement, will and affections, behavior and life-style, motives and purposes, are all involved. Repenting means starting a new […]
Some Learnings
I’ve learned- that either you control your attitude or it controls you. I’ve learned- that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place. I’ve learned- that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when […]
A Love Story
One day, I woke early in the morning to watch the sunrise. Ah the beauty of God’s creation is beyond description. As I watched, I praised God for His beautiful work. As I sat there, I felt the Lord’s presence with me. He asked me, "Do you love me?" I answered, "Of course, God! You […]
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