Wednesday Devotional: Will You Start Your Year with this Tough Prayer?
The Wesleyan Covenant Prayer is a New Year's tradition. In sincerely praying it, you are totally giving your life over to God. Can you?
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Dec 28, 20223 min
Wednesday Devotional: A Manger of Power
Matthew 2: 1-18, John 18:36 Humans crave power. It's easy to point at political or business leaders who want to wield power, but all of...
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Dec 21, 20222 min
Wednesday Devotional: A Manger of Humility and Love
Luke 2: 1-7, 1 John 4: 9-10 Can you imagine the scramble of angels in heaven on the eve of Jesus' birth? "I thought you were taking care...
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Dec 14, 20223 min
Wednesday Devotional: A Manger of Inclusion
Luke 2: 8-20 When I took this picture of this nativity scene on my manger shelves at home, I realized I really liked the positioning of...
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Dec 7, 20223 min
Wednesday Devotional: Manger of Obedience
Matthew 1: 18-25, 2: 13-15, 2: 19-23 There was a time in my life when I felt the Holy Spirit tell me to do something right now. Usually,...
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Nov 30, 20222 min
Wednesday Devotional: A Manger of Hope
Luke 1: 37 What do you think is the symbol of Christmas? Certainly the Christmas tree is a good candidate, as it symbolically points to...
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Nov 23, 20222 min
Wednesday Devotional: Promises of Justice
Lamentations 3: 34-36 The invaders were relentless and brutal. They overran the defenses of their victims. They destroyed structures that...
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Nov 16, 20223 min
Wednesday Devotional: Promises in Affliction and Grief
Image of Jeremiah by Michelangelo from Sistine Chapel. Public domain in the United States as it is in public domain worldwide....
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Nov 9, 20222 min
Wednesday Devotional: Promises in the Waiting
Lamentations 3: 26-30 Let him sit alone in silence, for the Lord has laid it on him. Let him bury his face in the dust - there may yet be...
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Oct 26, 20222 min
Wednesday Devotional: Promises of Presence
Jeremiah 3: 24 Between now and Advent, I am writing a series of devotionals on Lamentations 3: 19-36. In this passage, Jeremiah sits in...
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Oct 19, 20222 min
Wednesday Devotional: Promises of Love
Lamentations 3: 19-23 I woke up this morning with my favorite hymn running through my mind. "Great is Thy Faithfulness" is a hymn of...
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Oct 12, 20223 min
Wednesday Devotional: Meditating on God's Holy Spirit
Acts 2: 16-18 In the last of this devotional series of Meditating on God, we come to meditate on the Holy Spirit (meditation meaning, in...
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Oct 5, 20224 min
Wednesday Devotional: Meditating on God's Word
Luke 24: 45 As we continue this journey of meditating on the things of God, we come to God's word - the Bible. Let me take a brief side...
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Sep 28, 20223 min
Wednesday Devotional: Meditating on God's Communication
Matthew 6: 6-8 As I continue this Wednesday devotional series on Christian meditation (a mixture of deep thought and prayer), I want us...
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Sep 21, 20223 min
Wednesday Devotional: Meditating on God's Requirements
Micah 6: 6-8 In starting this Christian Meditation series last week, I defined meditation as "deep thinking combined with prayer." In...
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Sep 14, 20223 min
Wednesday Devotional: Meditating on God's Ways (new series)
Psalm 63: 6; Psalm 119: 15 My favorite psalm is Psalm 63, David's poetry about seeking God. There's a curious phrase in verse 6, reading...
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Sep 7, 20222 min
Wednesday Devotional: Adopted into God's Family
Romans 8: 15-17 As an adoptive father, I can relate to Paul's description of God adopting us as His children. I love my daughter...
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Aug 31, 20223 min
Wednesday Devotional: The End of Worry
1 Peter 5: 7 Former Yankees and Rangers outfielder Mickey Rivers was quite the character. He had a lot of oddball phrases. One of the...
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Aug 24, 20222 min
Wednesday Devotional: Cultivating Friendships
Ecclesiastes 4: 10 I live in a large metropolitan area that experienced severe flooding over the last few days. Fortunately for our...
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Aug 17, 20223 min
Wednesday Devotional: Beyond the Light Shows
Romans 12: 2-3 In last Wednesday’s devotional, entitled “Free Light Shows – and More!”, I talked about the many free blessings of nature...
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