Devotionals

Acts 28:1-10 (8) 8 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. In his book “Biblical Preaching,” Fred Craddock tells of a young pastor who visited an elderly […]

Galatians 6:6-10 (9) 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. In June of 1955, Sir Winston Churchill, now old and physically infirm, had to be  helped to the podium.  He stood a long moment in silence before giving the commencement address at

2 Corinthians 5:5-10 (10) 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, who was nicknamed “The Great Agnostic,” was giving a lecture on hell. He

Colossians 4:16-18 (17) 17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. A group of foreign dignitaries are visiting Israel. At the end of the tour, they are taken to see the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. They look at the tomb and read

Luke 16:1-10 (1) And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. When we think of criminals, we are prone to visualize them in orange jumpsuits sitting in a 6 x 8 ft cell. 

Matthew 25:41-46 (45) 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. It was in the 1800’s when Charles Dickens faced a difficult situation.  His father had mismanaged the finances of the household and

Matthew 25:14-18 (14) 14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. America\’s Got Talent (AGT) is a televised American talent show competition which premiered in June 2006.   It is part of the global Got Talent franchise created by

John 9:1-8 (4) 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. A medical missionary served for many years in a region of India where there was progressive blindness. People were born with healthy vision, but there was something in that area

Romans 15:1-6 (6) In her book, “Grapes of Wrath or Grace?” Barbara Brokhoff tells of a man tells who was on a bus tour in Rome.   Their first stop was a basilica in a piazza which was surrounded by several lanes of relentless Roman traffic. After they were all safely dropped off, the group climbed