Daily Devotionals

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 …

     For 26 miles… The runners facing down driving rain, blowing wind, and generally miserable, weird weather weren’t the only odd story out of the 122nd Boston Marathon.      Of the 30,087 entrants, 27,362 picked up their bib numbers, 27,042 of them started, and 25,822 completed the course.  That…

In this day and age, it seems like everyone is trying to get more. More time to fill our calendars. More money to fill our bank accounts. More information to fill our heads. This pursuit of more is further fueled by our advances in technology. Most of us have access to a device that constantly reminds us that we don’t have enough. This constant…

(Taken from Monday Morning Musings – St Stephen Reformed Church – New Holland PA) Good Morning, Ladies.      This week I felt overwhelmed.  Our new computer crashed, and I had no idea how to fix it.  Following the manufacturer’s support advice seemed questionable.  But a friend took time to come over and…

When the Apostle Paul was nearing his 70th birthday, he was composing one of his last letters (to the Philippians) while sitting in front of a roughhewn desk, chains on his feet, and a Roman soldier at his side.  While he is awaiting a court hearing from the highest Roman court, he is confined here, hoping to be released but believing that…