Devotionals
Water Is Thicker Than Blood
Read: Acts 8:26-40 What is to prevent me from being baptized? (v. 37 NRSV) The Ethiopian Minister of the Treasury was on his way home after a trip to a
Steven Bouma-Prediger August 26, 2025
Read: Acts 8:26-40 What is to prevent me from being baptized? (v. 37 NRSV) The Ethiopian Minister of the Treasury was on his way home after a trip to a
Read: John 7:37-44 Let anyone who is thirsty come to me. (v. 37 NRSV) It was the time of the Jewish Festival of Booths. For seven days water was carried
Read: John 4:1-42 Where do you get that living water? (v. 11 NRSV) It was a most unlikely sight. Jesus, a Jewish rabbi, talking with a Samaritan woman at a
Read: Mark 4:35-41 He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” (v. 39 NRSV) It was a terrible storm. The wind was so
Read: Matthew 3:13-17 And when Jesus had been baptized . . . (v. 16 NRSV) Baptism. As followers of Jesus, we do it in different ways. Some of us dunk;
Read: Amos 5:21-24 Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. (v. 24 NRSV) Years ago I paddled some whitewater rivers in the southeast. As part
Read: Ezekiel 47:1-12 Water was flowing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east. (v. 1 NRSV) It rained and thundered and lightninged for almost ten hours. The
Read: Psalm 1 They are like trees planted by streams of water. (v. 3 NRSV) I was watering my new trees earlier today. A couple weeks ago I planted two
Read: Deuteronomy 8:1-10 A land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up. (v. 7 NRSV) Some years ago I took a group of college students hiking in