After Jesus ascended to heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit to empower his followers to begin sharing the Gospel.

Sometimes a Proverb seems particularly appropriate for my frame of mind or something I’m going through—or a whole series of somethings....

A recent venture into the wisdom of Proverbs landed me in chapter 26, which opens with several statements about fools and how fools...

Often, circumstances or memories combine with my daily devotions or something from a sermon or online teaching to send me down some real...

First, Jehoshaphat turned to God; he called the people to a fast, and he assembled them to collectively seek the Lord and remember God’s...

Unless you’re one of the few (lucky?) people who manage to totally avoid being online or hearing news, it’s been hard to miss the...

That habit got me through some rough years, and it continues to be daily sustenance now. Let’s face it, this world is broken...

It’s been a minute since I spent much time with my farming relatives, but the concept of “fallow” fields gave me a couple of things to think

The person I’m thinking of wasn’t Saul himself, later renamed Paul, but rather, Ananias. Not the one who famously lied to the apostles...

At that point, Daniel was already seeing the fulfilment of earlier biblical prophecy concerning Israel’s Babylonian captivity as foretold...

Recently, my Sunday Proverbs reading coincided with receiving information about the Loaves and Fishes meal program in Stone County,...

We must be careful, though. In 2 Corinthians 11:14, the Apostle Paul warns that Satan masquerades as an “angel of light.”

Mary also gets a Gabriel visit, telling her she will become pregnant and bear the Son of God. Knowing she hasn’t experienced...

Other times, there’s obvious cause for rejoicing—the miraculous survival of our preemie grandson, or even “small” blessings like...

Which leads to the subject of boundaries: While there are household rules and the kids are generally obedient, they haven’t reached the...

With reminders to bathe everything in prayer (ch. 2) and establish high standards for leadership (ch. 3), chapter 4 uses the metaphor of...

Although tempted to just explain that cars sometimes require repair, I prayed that God would help us identify the problem...

And I pray for “we, the people,” to keep praying just as hard after November 5 as we did leading up to it. 

Wait, what? Pray for whom? Even if my non-preferred candidate won? And what’s that business about a quiet and peaceable life?

In Daniel chapter 1, we read the young Israelites were given Babylonian food. From Daniel’s concern, we can assume the meat was offered...