May 28, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
“in Him we were also chosen…in conformity with the purpose of His will…” Have you seen the movie “Dennis the Menace?” That was my youngest boy when he arrived from Ukraine: blond-haired, blue-eyed and full of energy. When I walked down the street...
May 21, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
“in Him we were also chosen…in conformity with the purpose of His will…” When God told us to adopt three children from Ukraine, we had never seen a photograph of them, we had never met them. Though we had been to Ukraine, we had never been to the...
May 14, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
“in Christ before the creation of the world…” In February 2002, Susan and I went to Ukraine in the former Soviet Union to adopt three siblings from an orphanage. For almost a year we were in the process of adopting our Ukrainian children. Obviously, we believed...
May 7, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all...
Apr 30, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all...
Apr 23, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
How Can We Say, “Thank You”? After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled...
