Apr 16, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
This Friday will be Good Friday, the day when we remember that Jesus died on the cross to pay for our sins. Why in the world would we call it Good Friday? Why would the cross, the most brutal, vicious, vile instrument of execution that man could devise, become a thing...
Apr 9, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt...
Apr 2, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and...
Mar 26, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!” Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since...
Mar 19, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
My wife enjoys watching programs that show houses being transformed by major renovation. You’ve probably seen shows where the interior is demo’d down to the studs. Often walls are removed entirely to create a more “open feel.” None of these programs would gain a...
Mar 12, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
You Have Been Warned!Part 2 of 4 In 2 Peter, the aged apostle repeatedly says that he is writing to remind believers of the truths we have already been taught in scripture. He goes on to warn of the harm caused by “false teachers” who promote “destructive heresies”...
Mar 5, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once...
Feb 26, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,and do not rely on your own understanding;in all your ways know him,and he will make your paths straight.Proverbs 3:5-6 When we had just opened the first boys’ home at Wears Valley Ranch, a staff member asked to take the boys,...
Feb 19, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
For as heaven is higher than earth,so my ways are higher than your ways,and my thoughts than your thoughts.Isaiah 55:9 Often God says no to a prayer request in order to grant something greater than what we had asked of Him. Amy Carmichael prayed as a child that God...
Feb 12, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. John 11:21 As I was reading a wonderful book by the gifted author Philip Yancey, I was surprised to read, “Jesus healed in spontaneous response to human need. He saw a suffering...
Feb 5, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you.” “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked them. They answered him, “Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory.” Jesus said to...
Jan 29, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Hebrews 12:11 God has ordained authority in the church, and He has commanded churches to exercise discipline....
Jan 22, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Prayers for healing in the Bible happened in the context of Christian community and biblical authority. They also happened in the context of honest confession and repentance: “The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up; if he has...
Jan 15, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Then a man with leprosy came to him and, on his knees, begged him: “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched him. “I am willing,” he told him. “Be made clean.”Mark 1:40,41 We read about healing in the...
Jan 8, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.Mark 11:24 As a pastor, I have often been called upon to anoint sick people with oil and pray for their healing, and it has always been my pleasure to do so....
