Devotion

There is wisdom in learning to keep our distance from certain things in life: lightning, poison…

It is amazing that even as a grown adult, I can still remember the awful taste of medicine I took as a child! Because it tasted so badly, it was often hard to swallow. In Luke 14, Jesus told his disciples something that was “hard to swallow.” You would think that Jesus would have made

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” (Prov. 16:32) Anger is something we all have to deal with from time to time but there are some who seem to live life with a short fuse. They could explode at

I remember when my dad first began teaching me to use the riding lawn mower. I couldn’t wait! I had seen him and my brother running around the yard on that thing and it looked like fun. What I didn’t realize was that a lawn mower had different speeds. When he put ME on it

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if God were to speak to you audibly? Well, that happened to a child named Samuel in 1 Samuel 3. Samuel was a child and had never heard the voice of the LORD before. The LORD called him three times before he realized it was God

If you have ever had to take lessons, whether it was the piano or maybe golf, you’ve probably heard the phrase, “practice makes perfect.” The meaning is, of course, that if you will practice faithfully, eventually you will be able to do something perfectly. But is that really true? May I submit to you that