Category: Devotionals

Read: Luke 1:26-38 Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” (v. 34) In 1961, President Kennedy addressed Congress with an audacious plan: land

Read: Mark 9:14-29 But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us. (v. 22) In the 1947 movie Miracle on 34th Street, Kris Kringle is an

Read: Matthew 26:31-45 Let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. (v. 39) According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), an estimated

Read: Habakkuk 1 Why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent . . . ? (v. 13) One of the legacies passed down from American slavery is the

Read: Jonah 3:1-5; 4:1-11 That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish. (4:2) In 2002, my husband and I took our godson to see the VeggieTales children’s movie

Read: Jeremiah 20:7-18 Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow . . . ? (v. 18) At the start of the 2020 pandemic, many

Read: 2 Kings 4:16-17, 25-37 Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me?’” (v. 28) As part of our

Read: 1 Kings 19:9-18 I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away. (vv. 10, 14) One of my favorite poems is “Footprints in

Read: Ruth 1:3-9, 16-22 Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. (v. 20) Recently, I became aware of a concept