by Chet Gladkowski | Oct 5, 2023 | Devotions
Numb and In a Hole Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.Ephesians 4:19 One of the results of spinal surgery is that I have these places on my body where I...
by Roland Ledoux | Oct 4, 2023 | Devotions
The Biting Edge of Sarcasm Life in Focus NOTHING takes the heart out of a person quite like biting sarcasm from an authority figure. It can be hard enough just to get up the courage to approach a powerful leader, but if that figure responds with derision, even the...
by Mark Shields | Oct 3, 2023 | Devotions
Renewed Day by Day Hope brings light in darkness like the gleaming rays of a morning sunrise to cheer us on in faith; giving assurance of a brighter day ahead. Today, we are reading Job 11. Another friend of Job named Zophar assumes that Job is suffering because he...
by Dr. Michael Sprague | Oct 2, 2023 | Devotions
Hating Monday Finding it hard to jump start your system? Your get up and go… got up and went? Try this in addition to your coffee…. Many years ago, we had Gordon MacDonald speak to our staff. Gordon shared a story from his days pastoring in New York City. Over time,...
by Dennis Lee | Oct 1, 2023 | Devotions
“Tapped by God” (Today is International Day of Older Persons) The richest spot on earth is neither South Africa’s diamond mines, the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, nor Silicon Valley and it’s microchips. The richest land is found in the local cemeteries because that’s...
by David Duncan | Sep 30, 2023 | Devotions
God Knows There is a way which seems right to a man, but it’s end is the way of death. (Proverbs 16:25) Marie Curie was a highly acclaimed physicist and chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first woman to win a Nobel prize, she is famous for...