"Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight." (Hebrews 4:13) We were on the back porch. A holiday morning, not much stirring yet. I was slowly waking, cradling a steaming mug of coffee, when my husband asked, "Do you see what's in the tree?" I strained to...
It was four in the morning when it happened. I couldn't sleep, and I finally just got up. I had just picked up my new cell phone the day before, my first "smart" phone, and I decided to play with it a bit. Maybe it would help me go to sleep! I started out to try and...
The following devotional is the second in a short series focusing on Daniel 2: Nebuchadnezzar's vision of the great statue of gold, silver, bronze, iron, and clay. "During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of...
The following devotional is the fourth in a short series focusing on Daniel 2: Nebuchadnezzar's vision of the great statue of gold, silver, bronze, iron, and clay. "The king said to Daniel, 'Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of...
The following devotional is the fifth in a short series focusing on Daniel 2: Nebuchadnezzar's vision of the great statue of gold, silver, bronze, iron, and clay. "Then the king . . . made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and placed him in charge of all...
Luke 2:8-15 "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel...
Joshua 6:1-2 (NIV) "Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. Then the Lord said to Joshua, 'See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.'" I have small...
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Eccl 1:9) A rather discouraging thought, isn't it? In fact, the theme of the entire first chapter of Ecclesiastes is disheartening! But nothing quite as...
"Then Solomon said, "The Lord said he would live in the dark cloud." (2 Chronicles 6:1 NCV) [1] "He made a darkness His hiding place , b His 1 canopy around Him, Darkness of waters , thick clouds of the skies." (Psalm 18:11 NASB95) [2] Many people, even Christians, go...
This is the 7th in a short series focusing what Israel's earliest leaders, the judges, have to teach us. Today's leadership lesson comes from one of Israel's more well-known judges, Samson . . . "The Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power so that he tore the lion...