Daily Devotionals

Happy, Happy Birthday!  We are so thankful you have found our website and looked up your birthday devotional.      The Apostle Paul had lived a life full of service to his Lord Jesus Christ. Today’s verse is one of his last written recorded thoughts. He was in prison and ready to suffer for his Savior.     Yet, lo…

(The following was published in the bulletin at St Charles Bible Church – October 14th, 2018, St Charles MN) Her sorrow ran down her cheeks and made muddy puddles on the dusty ground.  Her brother, Lazarus, had been in the tomb four days already; the mourners moved slowly to the tomb to pay their respects and comfort the sisters.  Then Jesus ca…

The truth is that you were born on this day and that is the truth, Happy Birthday. There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.-Soren Kierkegaard A famous quote from John F Kennedy when he was giving a commencement speech at Yale: For the great enemy of truth is very o…

Many people love to plan.  They plan for the next vacation or plan for the next life event.  Planning is a part of life and helps a person to be more organized.  It also helps those in leadership positions to track the many events, duties, and responsibilities that come with their job.  You might say that planning is essenti…

Today is your day, that day when God decided that it was time for you to be born. So, celebrate this day, it is your birthday. Be as excited about it as God was when He made you in your mother’s womb, and then when He gave you your first breath on April 14! Never forget that you are one of a kind. No one else looks exactly like you, no one i…

(The following was published in the bulletin at St Charles Bible Church – August 19th, 2018, St Charles MN)      The devil made me do it!  (A phrase popularized by television comedian, Flip Wilson.)  The reality is that just isn’t true.  The devil, Satan, cannot “make” us do anything.    &…

In today’s times some people say that the Bible was written so long ago; how can it apply to us today? The things we are dealing with today are very similar to life situations when God’s words were written long ago. This is a testament that his Word is living because his Words live inside of us with the Holy Spirit. His words are active when we…

(The following was published in the bulletin at St Charles Bible Church – April 23rd, 2017, St Charles MN)      I am not very good at deciphering and identifying plants. I do fairly well with trees, but telling the difference between weeds and grain is not my thing. (My mother’s concern with her boys doing the gardening w…

As we look at the previous verses we are taught to pray with the right motives. How many times do we pray and tell God what we want or think that we need? I’m often guilty of this myself! I think my motives are good but am I truly asking in humility before God? He knows all things, obviously, so who am I to assume I know better than the Al…

(Taken from Monday Morning Musings – St Stephen Reformed Church – New Holland PA) This week I have been thinking about some words I should have included in the ‘missing words’ list.  But maybe they belong in another category.  Words like Mother and Father may soon be missing words. The words that replace them probably belong in an …