Devotionals Daily Blog for Inspiration and Growth

The hotel bed sagged like a hammock under my jet-lagged body. My Timex beeped out the mantra, “Get up! The only time zone that matters is mine.” I rolled off ...

There’s a growing movement inside the church to say that gender roles are a result of the fall. From my vantage point, nothing could be further from the truth. Gender ...

Moses lifted his eyes and saw the flames in the distance.Something was burning on the side of the mountain – something unlike anything he had ever seen. He watched it ...

Sorting through some of the discouraging headlines from the sports section of various newspapers , I find an amazing number of columns dealing exclusively with the topic of character, or ...

How did the Pharisees hear Jesus’ call to perfection?The Pharisees believed that their best would be good enough for God – especially if they adorned their religion with as many ...

I became a Christian at a very young age. In truth, I can scarcely remember a moment when God was not an active and conscious presence in my life. Because ...

The Gospel of Matthew ends on a spectacular note. Actually, the entire final chapter is an exclamation mark celebrating the greatest victory in Jesus’s life and challenging us with a ...

Do What You Can With What You HaveIn all likelihood, Sam the Samaritan didn’t have an Acme first aid kit packed on his donkey. So where did he get the ...

Which gifts are most valuable in the church? Wrong question! Paul concludes [in 1 Corinthians 12].All the various gifts in the church work together to create one well-functioning body. If ...

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. – Bobby JonesStewart Cink and I had been working together for only a few months in 2009 ...

Before she met Jesus, Mary Magdalene was full of demons and sickness… unclean and unfit to be in decent company.Jesus didn’t care what man thought of her. God had created ...

When my oldest son, Jamin, was moving out of the toddler years, I started to have a difficult time hugging and kissing him. I wasn’t really sure why. But for ...

Today’s Bible Reading: Genesis 12:1-9Recommended Reading: Proverbs 3:5-6, Luke 9:23-27, Hebrews 11:8-19If you’ve ever seen the U. S. Air Force Thunderbirds air demonstration team, you’ve witnessed firsthand the incredible capabilities ...

In the late 1400s in Nuremberg, Germany, two brothers, Albrecht and Albert, grew up wanting to be artists. They came from a very large family of more than a dozen ...

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with ...

Today’s Bible Reading – Matthew 28:16-20Recommended Reading – Psalm 86, Proverbs 15:14, Mark 16My father was a minister for over fifty years, serving mostly in small, rural churches. He was ...