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339 devotionals in Humility & Character
June 18, 2024
Grinding it out and persevering builds character. Plain and simple. Something about endurance has the incredible capacity to refine you. I guess it’s kind of like a fire for silver, removing impurities and strengthening the character. Often because endurance goes hand-in-hand with trials and tria...
wise-speechJune 5, 2024
I got to thinking recently how some things are better left unspoken; don’t give them airtime. In other words, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all...right? Proverbs 10:19 “In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise”.Some things are b...
gentle-wordsJune 4, 2024
I’ve always been known as someone who “tells is like it is”. I’ve taken pride in the you may not like what I say, but I will always tell you like I see it. Well, as I’ve gotten older, I’m beginning to think I need to work on the way in which I deliver my message...maybe you do too.I think we need...
integrityJune 3, 2024
“Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.”Proverbs 10:9 In today's world of corrupt politicians and sports, it seems that anything done for an advantage is fair game—as long as you don't get caught.As Christians, however, we are held to a hig...
disciplineMay 21, 2024
I was talking to a friend yesterday who called to check on me and said he had messaged me a few weeks ago. My excuse was that I had just been really busy lately and I was genuinely sorry I hadn’t got back to him. But too busy to get back to someone who’s taken the time to think about me? Of cours...
identity-in-christMay 17, 2024
Ask yourself this, what is your identity? People mostly answer that question with a title. Most likely you’d hear a mom, dad, golfer, racer, vegan, pilot, husband or wife...whatever. But that’s not necessarily your identity. It’s regarding the world but what about your identity in Christ? Well, y...
life-without-jesusMay 16, 2024
What would your life look like without Jesus? I don’t know if you think about that, but I think about it often. I cringe at the thought of what my life would be without Jesus. I’m sure my heart would be cold because I felt it headed that way when I met Christ. I’d probably be pretty lonely. I may...
repentanceApril 30, 2024
So, I got to thinking about how life seems to ebb and flow with good times and bad. More specifically, as I getting ready for my treatment today, I got to thinking about how we can get stuck in the bad. I’m talking about that “stop the world I just want to get off this ride” feeling. We’ve all ha...
power-of-wordsApril 29, 2024
I’m really enjoying diving into the area of the power of words. We need to be conscious of how we use them and the results of what will happen when we do. That means we need to be actively thinking about what and how we use our words. “The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mou...
wordsApril 26, 2024
So, most of y’all that know me know I love to sit around at “shoot the breeze” as it were. Recently, It occurred to me as I listened to all types of conversations that we need to be careful talking about or sharing news that may not be accurate. (Could be said for the media as well). You see the...
sufferingApril 25, 2024
So as I drove to my CT Scan yesterday, I got to thinking a bit about just how long I’ve been on this fight. July will be three years. It’s amazing to watch the world go by, everyone scrambling about dealing with their own issues and lives. While I still have treatments ahead of me indefinitely, i...
prayerApril 24, 2024
“Nobody stands as tall as a Christian on his knees”I love this anonymous quote. It reminds me to spend time on my knees and thank the Lord for all his blessings and forgiveness. I need it. And because I need it (forgiveness), and because he gave it, I am filled with His grace. God has me covered...
spiritual-disciplineApril 22, 2024
I was feeling nostalgic this morning and thought about a topic I know I’ve written about a few times and I went back to some old devotionals and found it. I originally wrote this back in 2019 and I always seem to go back to it, or the subject in my own life. So, as I was washing my race bike on S...
patienceApril 12, 2024
Let keep talking about listening to God and looking for his answers. “for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”James 1:3-4 Look, I think it’s pretty evident that God sp...
wordsApril 10, 2024
Let’s roll over hump day with a thought about the words that come out of our mouths. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”Proverbs 18:21 ESVYou see, words can be the fruit of our thought and our hearts and can be used to encourage and lift up...
trustMarch 28, 2024
It’s been a long week and I’ve enjoyed our readings and have had some good conversations springing up from them. One of which came up this week about trust. It came up in the context of one of you said, “I can count on and trust you sending the morning devotional.” That has sat on me a while and...
self-controlMarch 22, 2024
“A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.”Proverbs 25:28 ESVI stumbled across this Proverb and I just had to take pause to think about it, so let’s discuss it. So God gave us free will to do what we want to do. We can eat unhealthy, smoke, drink excessively or...
patienceMarch 21, 2024
I have been forced to learn a lot about myself the last few years and one of the things I’ve learned is I need to get better with patience. Not only with life but mostly with people. I always thought I was a relatively patient person until I started trying to really learn what it meant to be pati...
humilityMarch 20, 2024
I’m sure many of you have heard of C.S. Lewis. He was a prominent 20th century theologian who said, “Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.” I bring it up because I’ve been thinking lately about what I am seeing in the world and how we’ve become so soft these day...
humilityMarch 15, 2024
How humble do you think you are? Are you prideful and boastful? I ask because God is close to the humble and broken hearted. No one is perfect. We all have sinned. But what makes us beloved to God is our willingness to accept our sinful condition and return to Him. You see, David was a man after...
gratitudeMarch 13, 2024
I was around a large group of people over the weekend and several times I found myself just sitting back and listening to the conversations and comments. Some good, some funny and some things I wouldn’t repeat. Anyhow, it got me thinking about what comes out of our mouths and what people see. “Gr...
humilityFebruary 26, 2024
“So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility coun...
prideFebruary 14, 2024
I know I’ve written about this in the past but has come up again. I had a great conversation recently with one of my friends and we were discussing times when we feel like “we got this” and we believe in our own selves and stop relying on God. You see this is caused by or led by Pride, the first...
waitingFebruary 13, 2024
You ever feel like your waiting for God’s plan for you? I sure do, but what if all this waiting isn’t really us waiting for God but rather Him waiting for us? What I am getting at is who is actually doing the waiting? We may think it’s us, but we could be wrong. Think about when Abraham asked God...