A daily devotional from the recommended lectionary texts for each week. It contains encouragement, inspiration, and challenges for better living and loving!
Sighs and groans may be the best prayers ever lifted up before God! Listen to find out why!
Have you the "great joy" of selling all you have to acquire something better? Jesus speaks about that! Let's listen!
Who knows you, the REAL you, and still loved you? If you said God, you've jumped ahead! Listen to the podcast and hear it!
I've tried it and thought I had found the perfect place. Nope. God was already there. Waiting. With open arms. Forgiving. With an open heart. And, still calling!
Romans 8:12-25: Paul says that God's arms are already open to us because He loves us and has cancelled our sins. "Abba" is the term that proves that. Pray saying Abba to God this week!
Jesus understood farming as He understands us; listen to what He recommended about weeds growing among wheat. Thank God for His loving patience!
What do a bowl of beans, bread, and birthright have in common?
Paul packs a punch at sin! BAM! And describes how you and me are free from sin (or should be!) in this powerful passage.
Jesus shares a powerful parable; a memory in modern times about soil and seed.
Psalm 45 is a wedding psalm. Who's getting married? Why?
How easily is it for you to go when asked? A story about one who said she would go because she trusted God.
Paul knows Who can rescue him and us; but still admits sometimes it's tough!
Jointed at the hip or the heart, to Jesus? I pray that it be so!
The Psalmist asks the right question about prayer and patience; and guess what he knows!
Probably the roughest story in the Old Testament; Kill me a son, right there on Highway 61!
Live free! Live in a joyful way that blesses God and God's people!
Imagine Jesus being blessed by a cup of cold water. Stop imaginging and start doing it for the "least of these" and you'll find you're blessing Jesus Himself!
What is the most recognized psalm in the New Testament? Guess.
Romans 6:1-11 speaks truth about our new life in Jesus, led by the Holy Spirit
Jesus briefs His disciples on what's ahead and how to best prepare for that.
Moses knew. David knew. Paul knew. What did they know? That God provides presence, peace, and strength when we're stressed out.
Paul speaks honestly about our justification by grace.
Jesus prepares the 12 for their work as He does us. You ready?
"It's the praising life I want, not more religion. I want you to offer your life to me, your thanksgiving life."
Abram received God's promise, not in full detail but with enough of the promise to. know he should do and go as God asked.
Paul shares the hope against hope we can have in God just as Abraham had.
Matthew's call into ministry was at the margins where the religious folk dared not venture.
King David's psalm about the God who made all things and inspires all things to worship God!
Genesis 1:1-4:2 shares how the Big Three (Trinity) were ALL pressent at Creation.
Paul addresses the why and Who behind the Trinity. Power. ful.
The Great Commission urges, no, demands our sservice to win the world for Jesus.
Psalmist knows what's up or better, what God is up to! God can and does make all things new!
Our God is a God of Renewal; He's in the Renewal Business.
Numbers passage about how the Spirit will Go where He wants!
The book of Numbers addresses the fact the Holy Spirit will go where He wants
Get a cake, light the candles, and get ready to receive and use the gift God brings to the party - The Holy Spirit, our power to be God's witnesses.
Jesus announces He is the fulfillment of a promise: Living water for the thristy.
Awake with worry about your body's Check Engine Light? Listen and be blessed!
The Risen Jesus shares final words with Disciples then ascends into Heaven. Two angels interrupt the disciples' gaze with the command, "Stop looking up!"
Your life feel broken? God can restore it back to where He'd love it to be.
John 17:1-11; God left the door ajar and we listened in to one of Jesus' longest recorded prayers in the Scriptures. What did Jesus say to God during His private time with His Father?
The psalmist writes a psalm that we adapt for Mother's Day. Please remember it is this Sunday!
Paul was a master communicator and thinker; read how he finds an opening for Jesus and takes it home!
Peter sends a letter in the darkness of persecution to the community scattered throughtout Asia Minor. His message? One of hope!
Jesus makes ready His departure by leaving His followers promises to bless them. John 14:15-21
What did the Psalmist know about God? Listen and find out and apply it to your life!
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