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Empty-Handed Leads to Fullness With God, Part 2
Rom 7:14-15 "Yes. I'm full of myself — after all, I've spent a long time in sin's prison." (from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.) Last week I shared with you the miraculous healing of Donovan's...
THE POCKET PARROT, PART 4: Give it ALL to Jesus
This is the last devotional in a short series inspired by Melo, our departed Parrotlet. "Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." (1 Peter 5:6-7) In the last...
THE FIERY FURNACE, PART 5: The Bonus
The following devotional is the final of a short series focusing on Daniel 3: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace. "Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon." (Dan 3:30) We've gotten to the end of a beautiful...
KNOWING GOD, PART 4: Learning to Communicate with God
So far in the Knowing God series, we have learned that to get to know God, we need to learn about Him and we need to experience Him. To do so, we need to learn to communicate with Him. We can only do this by spending regular, quality time with Him, by learning to...
LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP, PART 5: Tola, the son of Puah, and Elon, the Zebulonite
This is the 5th in a short series focusing what Israel's earliest leaders, the judges, have to teach us. Today's leadership lesson comes from two little-known judges of Israel, Tola the son of Puah and Elon the Zebulonite . . . "After the time of Abimelech a man of...
Empty-Handed Leads to Fullness With God, Part 3
My wife asked me a very important question on the eve of Valentine's day: "What does it mean to approach God empty handed?" As best as I could I tried to explain it to her. However human explanations are far from being perfect, and the question was not answered either...
Encouragement, Part 1: Encouragers From God
Rom 12:6,8 "We have different gifts, according to the grace given us... if it is encouraging, let him encourage..." NIV One of the often forsaken gifts from the Holy Spirit is the gift of encouragement. In a world where depression...
Knowing God Part 5: Wanting What He Wants
Scripture: Luke 11:13 "If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" NLT Today was watch my grandchild day. His name is Bryce and at 6 months he is...
Deliverance, Part 1: You Must Destroy Them Totally
The following is the first of a short series about God's deliverance. "And when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally . . ." (Deut 7:2) With so much talk going on these days about deliverance...
LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP, PART 6: Four Bibles and an Oxgoad
This is the 6th in a short series focusing what Israel's earliest leaders, the judges, have to teach us. Today's leadership lesson comes from a little-known judge of Israel, Shamgar son of Anath . . . "After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred...