Faithfulness in the Mundane
Read: Deuteronomy 8:1-18 Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. (v. 4) During the national shutdown in response to the coronavirus, I often woke up and wondered, “What day is it?” As the days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months, life felt like […]
Never on the Sidelines
Read: Genesis 39:19-40:8 You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. (Gen. 50:20) Every late summer I anticipate receiving an email from the coordinator for my volunteer job at the local elementary school. However, when her communication […]
It’s Who You Know
Read: Philippians 3:7-11 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. (v. 10-11 NIV) I needed to find a dentist to do a root canal. After calling several, my parents […]
No Limit Here
Read: Psalm 147:1-11 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. (v. 5) During the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, people felt helpless, and many turned to panic buying. Store shelves were empty of toilet paper, soap, hand sanitizer, and meat. Retailers imposed limits on these important staples as […]
Those “It Just Turned Out” Moments
Read: Ruth 2:1-20 So [Ruth] went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz. (v. 3 NIV) Have you ever heard someone say or even caught yourself saying, “That sure happened to work out?” or “It just turned out […]
Daily Radio in Albania
Nora and her husband live in Korca, Albania—a plateau surrounded by the Moravian mountains. In Korca, they manage a traditional goat farm. Herds of goats in Albania are a source of milk products, meat, and occasionally wool or skins. Nora and her husband work hard, long hours in the fields. She contacted the Words of […]
Used Uniquely
Read: Judges 3:12-30 Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. (v. 15) Often God uses what we were born with in unique ways. Being born with cerebral palsy, I have seen this happen […]
Let’s Read This
Read: 2 Kings 22:3-13 And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it. (v. 8) This terrifying announcement came over the elementary school intercom, “Teachers keep your students in […]
Tossed by the Waves
Read: Ephesians 4:1-16 [God] gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers . . . so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. (v. 11, 14) Despite being a […]