"If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?" --1 John 4:20 (NLT) Many times, we all read the parables of Jesus and stop right there. We may relegate the [...]

David asked the soldiers standing nearby, “What will a man get for killing this Philistine and ending his defiance of Israel? Who is this pagan Philistine anyway, that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God?” --1 Samuel 17:26 (NLT) In the deep, dark forest where no one else lived, a wicked [...]

Hello everyone! We'll be unavailable tomorrow, and my good friend T. H. Cayne is working on next week's devotion. If you have kids or you enjoy children's stories, you'll love next week's message! In the meantime, here's a post I wrote a little over 2 years ago. I hope you'll enjoy it! "The Kingdom of [...]

"Jesus told him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.'" --John 14:6 (NLT) The gentleman had left home with plenty of time to spare, so why did he need directions? No one had told him the day or the hour of the meeting, [...]

Hi everyone! Since I'm still working on my next devotion, here's one of the devotions my wife Stephanie posted back in 2014. I hope this message inspires you to pray to God often! "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone--for kings and all those in authority, [...]

“And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters,[f] you were doing it to me!’" --Matthew 25:40 (NLT) I don’t know about you, but I was always terrible at math. Of course Siri wasn’t available then to do my [...]