When the angel Gabriel came to Mary and told her that she, a virgin, would bear the son of God, she had a choice to make. While the gospel record doesn't show it, I can imagine Mary standing there with her mouth open. She must have thought something like this. "If I obey God, what [...]
"How do I reprogram my computer?" the man asked. "I want to clear it out and start from the beginning." "No problem," the technician answered. "You can do it in three easy steps. Just restart the computer, hold down the 0 on the keyboard, and then follow the prompts." As I thought about the technician's [...]
To start our devotion, here's a little Christmas story I found on the Internet. "A few years ago my baby was very ill, and she was hospitalized six times within a ten-month period. She spent two weeks in the PICU of our nearest children’s hospital during one admission—intubated and fighting to get better, which she [...]
"Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will not be shaken." --Psalm 62:5 (NLT) The phone rang, and while I normally like to screen my calls, something urged me to pick this one up. "Why [...]
"You are the light of the world-like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden." --Matthew 5:14 (NLT) If you're like me, you're getting tired of being stuck in quarantine, and you're ready to go out and start doing things again. A few weeks ago, I was dreading Easter Sunday. In-person church services were [...]
"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of [...]