A daily devotional from the recommended lectionary texts for each week. It contains encouragement, inspiration, and challenges for better living and loving!
The famous "wee" man was also a wicked man. How did Jesus approach him? Could a wicked man find a life in Jesus Christ?
The Prophet Joel shares the good news about God: God doe mend, but God also multiplies His goodness.
The Apostle Paul urges Timoty and all believers to finish the race strong!
How do you approach you when you pray? Self-centered and list of accomplishments? Or, do you approach God with your need for mercy?
How do you approach you when you pray? So you brag or boast about what you are and what you do? Or, do you admit you need God's mercy? Listen, watch and learn.
God's Word truly is sweeter than honey and is also life-giving and affirming! Dive in the word! Grow and Give!
Leave the "security" of the real world and enter the embrace of love in God's world!
Jesus uses a parable to show His disciples how to pray without ceasing and not giving up! Know the story? Do you know how to pray without ceasing? Do you know NOT to give up?
Don't hold back! You don' if the Aggies are winning! Why hold back on the eternal winner, God?
Bloom where you're planted. Easier said than done?
Paul in chains but fighting ever forward and upward for Jesus' gospel to be heard and accepted.
Jesus speaks to the wholeness that only one of the ten lepers received. All ten received healing, but only one received the relationship and wholeness that Jesus offers.
Psalm 137 hits hard; but through it all, God understands. Read it and listen.
Sin can rob us of so much; the song warned us, "Oh be careful little eyes watch you see... etc." Live a life that gives glory to God!
The Apostle Paul urges his son in the faith to keep the fire ablaze in his spirit. Are you keeping the flames high and going?
Be bold and use what small faith you think you have, to glorify God right now!
The psalmist knew that in God we not only find temporary protection but a lifetime of it if we walk with Him.
Where or who do you invest in? You should invest in you when it blesses God.
Hard-hitting parable warning! Luke 16:19-31 spells it out!
The psalmist when in anguish found out that he could and did pray when he was angry. So should we!
Imagine having a heart so filled with love for your people that even their sinfulness and its consequences that your heart breaks and you begin to weep. Such was the life and heart of the prophet Jeremiah. Listen and learn!
There are no liimits on God's love, nor should there be on yours as well! LOVE ALL PEOPLE! And start now!
Where is the wisdom in denying the existence of God? The psalmist speaks truth in a hard way. Are we listening?
Jeremiah shares his grief over his country's being chief among sinners of all nations. Listen and learn.
Paul, the accomplished, successful, missionary to the Gentile world, calls himself the chief among sinners. I would rank second; who's third?
God's already looking for those who may have wandered off or are completely lost! God will find you and bring you home!
You are awesome! Don't believe me? Believe God! Read on or listen in!
God can remake us to fit His purposes if we but surrender to His will and plan. You ready?
Jesus has the power to make new, stronger, healthier, more positive, etc. Just surrender to Him!
Jesus honestly shares what it costs to be a follower of His. Ready? Let's go!
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 speaks of our needing to do right and be good!
Jesus knew what was up when folks got ready to eat and cautions us too!
Jesus can set you free! All you have to do is ask! Go on! ASK!
The psalmist calls on us to allow ourselves to be restored, remolded, remade, into something special that can bless God and God's people.
God loves you so much! How do you show your love back to Him? The prophet Isaiah studies this in this passage from 5:1-7
We have a race we need to run! And run we shall; and run to win!! We can win the world for Jesus!
Do you have a fire in your heart for Jesus? If not, why not? Do you have a personal mission statement about who you and what you've been sent here to do? Write one if you don't!
Psalm 50 stresses the need for our inner self renewal by God rather than the hollow empty practices of relationship.
Isaiah speaks the truth about faith and its power in the Lord. God is set to make us new from the inside so that we can truly and sincerely praise the Lord.
Hebrews speaks of our real, eternal home; it takes faith to get us there.
What keeps you back from fully following and serving God? Can you learn to let go?
From the heart of David powerful words of hope and praise; still powerful today!
Hosea speaks a powerful word about how much and how deep is God's love for us.
Paul stresses that we belong to the spiritual but are weighed down by the earthly, thus what we encounter.... Go Spiritual!
How rich are you? I mean, in terms of that which really matter? Listen and learn, learn and change!
The psallmist knew that the past held memories of both positive and negative; the memory of God's intervention powered revival and renewal. It can power our lives too.
The shocking story of the prophet and the prostitute. Where's God in this?
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