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May 10, 2024
God's New Thing in Every Season
So, I promised you this devotional would NOT be about me and my cancer fight. However, it has given me great cause to reflect on the seasons we go through and why we are where we are. But I strongly believe we are where we are for a reason and God wants us to ask Him to get involved! He wants us...
intentional-livingMay 9, 2024
Living in the Now, Not the Then
Let’s shift gears a little and talk about where we are going? This time next year, where do you want to be? Who do you want to be? What type of follower of Christ, spouse or parent do you want to be? Whatever the answers are to those questions, know this: God’s calling you to live in the NOW & st...
joyMay 6, 2024
True Joy Beyond Political Chaos
“Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!”Psalms 32:11 With the election season heating up and the increase in nauseating political garbage, I was thinking how nice it is that we don’t rely on that circus to provide our peace and happiness. One o...
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...
rest-in-christMay 2, 2024
Finding Rest in Christ's Easy Yoke
“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."”Matthew 11:28-30 I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to...
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...
power-of-wordsApril 29, 2024
The Power of Words: Think Before You Speak
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...
sufferingApril 25, 2024
Learning Patience Through Three Years of Fighting
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 Taller Than a Christian on His Knees
“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...
peaceApril 23, 2024
Jesus Doesn't Give Peace - He IS Your Peace
Peace and serenity. We all seek it, we all crave it and we all need it. But where is it exactly? You may be like me and think it’s just in the absence of noise or conflict. But it’s not in the absence those things. It’s the tranquil feeling that’s not dependent on you circumstances. The peace we...
spiritual-disciplineApril 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...