Read John 15:12-17 Thought for the Day: Jesus wants to be my friend! Have you ever felt like you were able to get to know a celebrity simply by repeatedly encountering their work? Spend enough time listening to your favorite podcaster, and you will begin to develop...
Read Luke 2:8-16 Thought for the Day: Jesus is Lord… even at His birth! The sheep being watched outside of Bethlehem the night Jesus was born were not ordinary lambs. While other shepherds tended sheep for wool, those visited by the angels were in charge of raising...
Read2 Timothy 4:1-5 Thought for the Day: Good sermons help us understand God’s Word! The word sermon never appears in Scripture. You may ask: ‘How could this be!?’ What about Jesus’s words in Matthew 5-7 that we call The Sermon on the Mount? Or haven’t we all...
Read Psalm 1:1-2 Thought for the Day: Devotionals help us hear God’s Word When we read a daily devotional, we are carrying on a tradition that goes back over a thousand years. Devotionals started in the 9th Century when Oengus the Culdee authored the Felire (in Ireland)....
Read Psalm 119:105-106 Thought for the Day: Every smartphone is actually a pocket Bible. In an age of immediate internet access, it is easy to get discouraged about the seemingly adverse impact of constant cellphone use. Do a quick search online (there’s irony for you), and you...
Read Isaiah 7:10-17 Thought for the Day: God is with us! In the early 1990’s, Regina, David, and I lived in Rhode Island while my parents lived in Fargo, North Dakota. Because we had no internet or cell phones, we stayed in touch the old fashioned way...
Read 2 Timothy 1:3-7 Thought for the Day: Today, I can stop comparing myself to others. Several years ago, my wife and I visited New Orleans for the first time with one objective: to find and eat the best authentic po-boy sandwich. Of course, as bona fide...
Read Luke 14:1-11 Thought for the Day: It is far better to go in humble! One day, Jesus was invited to a fancy dinner party at the house of a prominent religious leader along with a group of prestigious guests. While some people in Jesus’ ministry sought...
Read James 1:2-3 Thought for the Day: Faith starts with accepting life as it is. Charles Dickens begins A Christmas Carol with a famous line: “Marley was dead.” While the story depicts the incredible transformation of Ebeneezer Scrooge from a miser to one who “knew how to...
Read John 4:1-45 Thought for the Day: I can wait and listen (before reacting). In the fourth chapter of John’s Gospel, Jesus did something astonishing. Rather than walking around the region of Samaria (as was standard for First Century Jewish people), he walked right in, sat down...