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April 22, 2024
Don't Just Rinse - Put in the Work with Christ
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...
gods-planApril 19, 2024
God's Plans Are Here and Now
Just sit tight for a minute, this probably isn’t going where you think it’s going. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”Jeremiah 29:11 ESVHow many times you heard this when your going through “your season”? P...
forgivenessApril 16, 2024
Forgiveness Doesn't Mean Forgetting
You ever heard someone say, “that person’s hurt me so many times there’s no way I could ever forgive them”? I have...I may have thought it a time or two as well. Maybe you have? “Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against...
anxietyApril 15, 2024
Your Victory Was Secured on the Cross
664/15/24So, by now you may already know that Scotti Scheffler has won the Masters. In his post round interview he talked about the conversation he was having with his friends Sunday morning prior to the final round. He wanted to win so bad that it had become almost a worry of sorts. He told his...
wordsApril 10, 2024
The Power of Our Words
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...
disappointmentApril 5, 2024
When You've Reached Your Limit
Ever feel like you could just scream or punch something? Yeah, me too! You see, no matter how much we want to put our hope and aspirations on people and things of this world, inevitably we will be let down. It’s not because intentions weren’t good, it’s because we live in a sin filled world and w...
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...
hopeApril 1, 2024
Hope in God, Not Man
“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”Joshua 1:8 We are talking about hope and yo...
evangelismMarch 29, 2024
Ready to Defend Your Faith with Grace and Gentleness
“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...
trustMarch 28, 2024
Are You Trustworthy? Building Dependable Christian Character
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...
understandingMarch 27, 2024
The Fool's Rush to Judge: Seeking Understanding First
“A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.”Proverbs 18:2 How quick do you judge others? How often do you feel misunderstood? If I’m honest, I’d say for me, quite a bit on both...Look, no one likes to be misunderstood, yet we often make faulty judgments of peop...
discernmentMarch 25, 2024
Approving What is Excellent: The Art of Christian Discernment
“so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,”Philippians 1:10 What is Paul telling us when he says to approve what is excellent? Well, he’s talking about discernment. We need to become better at discerning what is right and what is wrong, or of G...
self-controlMarch 22, 2024
Self-Control: Building Walls Against Temptation
“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
Learning Patience: Waiting on God's Perfect Timing
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...
gossipMarch 19, 2024
Stop Gossip, Start 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...
responsibilityMarch 18, 2024
Taking Responsibility: Grace Helps Us Bear Our Load
You ever feel like you have such a huge load or responsibility you find yourself ducking them or delegating them to someone else? I certainly do. But getting someone else to do them doesn’t change the fact you’re responsible for them. But when you take up the responsibility that’s in front of you...
faithMarch 14, 2024
Walk By Faith Not By Sight
So we’ve been talking about gratitude off and on all year and while it’s always a great topic and one we need to continue to be intentional about, I want to shift gears a little bit. Why? Well, because I want to talk about something else, like faith! I’ve been having to lean on my faith a lot lat...
gods-willMarch 12, 2024
God's No Is For Your Good
When we talk about our struggles and how we are just trying to get through “it” aren’t we really just talking about how we are to deal with God’s NO? I mean think about most of the disappointments you’ve experienced. Probably the one thing they all had in common is they didn’t fit into your plan...
courageMarch 7, 2024
Be Strong and Courageous
“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 wherever you go.””Joshua 1:9 When I think of being courageous, I think of the story of Peter and his willingness to step over in the storm and walk to Jesus on the...
sufferingMarch 6, 2024
Good and Bad Happen to All
I had a great dinner with one of you last night and Job came up…so, one last thing on Job and suffering. Job was a tremendously righteous man and suffered greatly. So do we assume that the more righteous we are the more suffering we are to expect? Not necessarily. The large part of Job’s life fea...
witnessFebruary 28, 2024
Being an Effective Witness: Living Like Jesus
So I’ve been reading through Philippians and talking about how we need to get to work to spread the word of Jesus. It’s been enlightening reading about Paul and his struggles and his witness. But it’s been brought up to me and asked, “how exactly do we be an effective witness?”Well, look at it li...
evangelismFebruary 27, 2024
Sharing God's Love Through Action and Kindness
We have a lot of work to do yet. We need to always be sharing the name who has delivered us, Jesus. Just the other day, I came across a young girl that I could tell needed to smile. I had a kind word for her, she smiled and what a wonderful smile she had. That was Jesus at work. Now is the time t...
humilityFebruary 26, 2024
Choosing Jesus Over Self: Living in Humility
“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...
sufferingFebruary 23, 2024
Standing Firm Through Trials and Opposition
I want to stay with Paul in Philippians because I think it’s important to understand how he was using his imprisonments as an advantage to further the message of Christ. “so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righte...