The Unnamed

The Unnamed

Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Rayhab, all had faith in God and so each was called out by name in the book of Hebrews. Pastor Mike finished his series on the “Hebrews Hall of Faith” this week talking to us about the unnamed....
Appreciation

Appreciation

Is there someone in your life you take for granted? Perhaps your spouse? Your children, a parent, a friend? It’s easy to do – especially if we are around them daily. Just like we grow comfortable with a pair of shoes, our home, or a place of worship, we grow...
Surrender

Surrender

As usual, I started my morning off reading from my devotionals. I leave My Utmost for His Highest until last because its message usually goes much deeper than most devotionals. Often, it requires several readings for me to wrap my head around the message. Today was no...
Closeness

Closeness

We have three four-legged children. The oldest, Cooper, is an Australian shepherd. Brady is a beagle and doberman mix. Attie, the youngest, is a rottweiler. All three are rescue dogs. As I sit here on my loveseat reading my morning devotional, Brady is curled up...
Punishment or Mercy?

Punishment or Mercy?

When God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden for eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, did He do so as punishment or did He do so because He is a merciful God? I had always assumed God banished them as punishment. My logic went like this. Adam...
Unconditional

Unconditional

We would like to think we are loved unconditionally by our parents, our siblings, our spouse or children, and are friends. Are we? How many people in our lives have turned their backs on us when we failed to fulfill a need they felt they deserved or were owed? How...
Rahab the Prostitute

Rahab the Prostitute

Hebrews Chapter 11 is a chapter of faith. From this chapter, Pastor Mike has shared the faith of Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac as well as the faith of Joseph and Moses. Today, Pastor Mike continued with the faith of Rahab. Rahab is an example of how God can...
Pray First

Pray First

I heard a story on the news the other day. The gist of the story is that a young girl was given a 10-question quiz by her teacher. When she gets her quiz back, she is devastated and goes home crying. The young girl had gotten 9 out of the 10 questions wrong. The...
My Utmost for His Highest

My Utmost for His Highest

 Like most Christians, I have my devotional books I’ve collected over the years. I find something worthwhile in all of them. However, not every devotion hits me in the gut. I like devotions that when I read them, they make me pause and think. They challenge...
Joseph’s Faith

Joseph’s Faith

Let’s be honest. Faith in a God we’ve never seen in person, a God we’ve never spoken with on a telephone, received a letter from or had a conversation with via a text is not easy. We need to constantly look around ourselves and wonder at the marvels of this world and...