Devotionals about Faith
Faith isn't a feeling you work up on Sunday — it's a daily decision to trust God when the outcome is still hidden. These devotionals walk through what it looks like to keep believing when the ground shifts underneath you.
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268 devotionals in Faith
February 26, 2025
Do You Want to Be Healed? Moving Beyond Circumstances
“After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.One man was there who had been an invalid fo...
faith-defenseFebruary 24, 2025
Ready to Defend Your Faith
“but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,”1 Peter 3:15 So, here it is. Are you ready to tell about or defend your faith when asked or challenged...
faithDecember 24, 2024
Faith: Seeing God's Love in His Beautiful Creation
As I sit here watching the sun come up this morning thinking about what this holiday is all about, I can’t help but marvel at the beauty God has made. How do I know he made it? Well, I have faith that he did. It’s the same faith that I have in Him that allows me to grow closer to Him. You see, de...
compassionDecember 20, 2024
Growing Faith Through Compassionate Service
I love feedback from everyone (just not on the group message, haha) and I always appreciate a good conversation around the messages I send out. Especially when they hit home and are appreciated. I genuinely cherish each of you and love the exchanges. “When two or more are gathered” right!? For me...
purposeNovember 22, 2024
Am I Doing Enough With What I Have Left?
Giving my current unique circumstances, I am wondering if I’m doing enough. Not enough by way of treatment, this isn’t a cancer thing, but enough by way of am I doing enough with what I have left. God has blessed me with certain skills, traits and talents. Am I using them correctly, efficiently?...
resilienceOctober 30, 2024
Bouncing Back: Finding Resilience Through Faith
How fast do you bounce back after a loss?One of the great tragedies in modern-day Christians is that we are losing our ability to rebound, to find the grit and determination to come back from defeat. Yeah, we may suffer some setbacks, but we should never be defeated. If we lose faith in the fact...
courageOctober 18, 2024
God Is With You Wherever You Go
We’ve spent last week primarily talking about letting go and trusting God with his plan for us. So, I thought I would send us into the weekend with Joshua 1:9“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherev...
prayerOctober 17, 2024
Prayer and Trust Go Hand in Hand
“Good Lord willing …”How many times have we heard this saying as response to questions about our plans we have for our lives? I’ve heard it a lot! I’ve said it! I suppose it’s meant to express our beliefs that we believe and trust that if ______ is God’s will then it will be. But are we praying f...
gossipSeptember 27, 2024
Believing the Best in Others
I don’t know about you but I’ve got to do better at turning off gossip when I hear it. I also need to not “enable it” when I hear it by giving a participatory laugh or, “now way!” It just makes it worse. It seems as if now days we believe the negative stuff about people more than the positive stu...
mind-renewalSeptember 24, 2024
Taking Every Thought Captive to Christ
Anytime we are sick, lose a loved one, have a serious injury, etc. negative thoughts and doubt creep into our minds. It challenges our faith. Today is “Treatment Tuesday” so this is fresh on my mind…this got me thinking about how critical it is that we try and keep our minds in check against the...
graceSeptember 5, 2024
What is Grace? Understanding God's Greatest Gift
Grace. What is it exactly? I mean I sign off with “Grace wins” everyday, but what exactly am I talking about? Well, in the book of Romans, Paul tells us that we can’t receive God’s favor, become righteous, by works alone. Meaning simply obeying the laws of the land wouldn’t get us His favor. So,...
peaceSeptember 4, 2024
Finding God's Peace When Your World Is Upside Down
Can we have peace in our hearts when our world is turned upside down?Pretty good question that requires an honest look inward. You see the kind of peace the world give us is pretty sketch at best. It can change on a whim with no notice at all. Happened to me last summer with the cancer diagnosis,...
wisdomJuly 19, 2024
Ask God for Wisdom to Navigate Hard Times
Alright, so you are probably asking yourself, after yesterday’s message, “how exactly am I supposed to stay rejoicing during these hard times?” Well, I hear you and I get it. James is telling us to rejoice during our times of struggle because this faith produces perseverance. The Bible teaches us...
gratitudeJuly 15, 2024
Gratitude Changes Everything
I read this last night and it bears repeating;“We don’t need to see things differently to be grateful; rather, we must be grateful to see things differently.”Wow, I need to read that. You see, God turns our gratitude into goodness, adds peace to our pain, and provides strength in our struggles. G...
callingJuly 12, 2024
What Are You Waiting For? Step Into God's Plans
What are you waiting for? I’ve been thinking about this simple question for over a week now. You see, last year I was being called to step away from a long career and focus on health, faith, family and friends. While I wasn’t really sure what it was going to look like, I soon realized God had big...
faithJuly 4, 2024
Planting Seeds: Faith in the Unseen Results
So, will we always see the result of the work we’ve done by witnessing to others and being there when they need us the most? Most certainly not. But that shouldn’t discourage us from being there and sharing the Gospel. You see, we never really know how God is using us, we just need to have faith...
resilienceJune 17, 2024
Bouncing Back from Loss with Steadfast Faith
I was watching the US Open golf tournament yesterday and the heartbreaking finish for Rory McIlroy. It was a tough one to take I’m sure…but it got me thinking about loss and struggles and how we respond. How good are you from bouncing back after a loss? One of the great tragedies in modern-day Ch...
salvationJune 10, 2024
More Than Christmas and Easter
“Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"”John 11:25-26 That’s really all there is to it, isn’t it? I mean, just believe that Jesus died for yo...
prayerMay 28, 2024
Finding Faith in God's Silence
So, I’ve been reading and thinking about prayer and when God is listening. Does he take a break from listening? Naw, he’s always there...But how do we react when God is silent? You see, God uses silence to draw out faith. Great faith!When God is silent, do we listen to voices that question our ri...
faith-strengthMay 15, 2024
Walking on Water: Faith Strong Enough for the Storm
So you ever have some many things going on and really having to lean on the Lord to give you patience and strength and deliver you from a storm that won’t seem to subside? I have, and it got me asking myself how strong is my faith and is it strong enough to survive it? Am I ready to “walk on wate...
faith-leapMay 14, 2024
Think for a Change: Don't Let Today Sabotage Tomorrow
So, I spend some time yesterday with two young men who are making a big leap of faith in their life and changing the course of their careers for the hope of better things in the future and it got me thinking…Could things be the way they are because you are the way you are? What’s one thing can yo...
changeMay 3, 2024
Finding Comfort in God's Unchanging Love
Why does everything have to change all the time? I mean, what’s wrong with the way things are now? Well, if you’re asking yourself these same questions, you’re probably like me and on the train to being an old person. Ha, I’m only joking, but sometimes with the pace that the world is changing I f...
gods-guidanceMay 1, 2024
Yielding to God's Plan Over Our Own
I had a long conversation yesterday with an old friend that worked with me for years. She was telling me how her life has been, the way Gods led her and the unreal rough seasons she been through over the last decade with her cancer and now divorce. Well, you know where this went…You see, I choose...
faithApril 3, 2024
Moving Forward on Faith Alone
I decided to go down memory lane and read through some old devotionals I have written after a nice conversation about these I had at lunch yesterday. Hard to believe it’s be since Summer of 2018…“Sometimes we just have to trust God enough to go even when we don’t have all the answers.” -Tim Tebow...