A daily devotional from the recommended lectionary texts for each week. It contains encouragement, inspiration, and challenges for better living and loving!
Do you have an angel story in your past, where something unexplainable happened, and you finally figured out, "It had to have been an angel?" Well, in today's devotional, an angel does visit, and he…
When was the last time you heard some good news? Was it in church? I hope it was, for the Church should be the fount of Good News, all the time! Listen to the ancient prophets speak of the coming …
Today's devotional may hit you hard; I hope so, because we have become too comfortable with who we are, what we do, and don't care about what we don't do. Listen and be challenged, and perhaps, tran…
Look to the model of John the Baptist to be a better Christian. His willingness to be obedient, humble, and even faithful to the death, shows how we should live our lives. Listen to learn how to Be…
Before you go down memory lane and giving credit to what Walt Disney did to the mundane and common, go back way further, to the days of David the king! This passage from Psalm 85 surely equals and s…
Imagine minding your own business one day when the Lord God appears and ask you, yes you, to preach a word on His behalf. You learn what the word is, and you get scared out of your mind; "Are you su…
As many loved ones were dying in violent ways during his time, Peter addresses their questions and frustrations, much in the same way many today wonder the same thing about this dreaded Coronavirus. …
The best way for Advent to have any meaning in our lives, is for us to make room for Jesus; we should not be so busy, so occupied or preoccupied, that Christ does not have room to make Himself real f…
Have you ever wished God would just show up, once and for all, so that doubters and atheists, would convert, be saved, transformed and just become all around do-gooders? Neither have I... Just kiddi…
God is faithful. We should also be faithful. To the End. In Christ we find our strength. Listen and become a blessing.
When we were kids news of our aunt's visit to Kingsville from all the way from McAllen excited us! The news was an advent of sorts, and the excitement and preparation for her arrival was awesome! A…
Are you waiting until Thursday of next week to give thanks? What if I told you you should do it now? Listen to the 100th Psalm and what it means to have a thankful heart ALL THE TIME!
Unlike the wicked kings of fairy tales, God is a loving and kind king, and we should not forget that God made His Son, Jesus our King. As we worship this coming Sunday that Christ is the King, let t…
Of the greats of the 20th and 21st Centuries, who impressed you the most? Which of the greats would you have liked to have been around, listening, learning, absorbing, the genius and wisdom they use…
There is no election for king, certainly not for Jesus to be our King! He is King! He is King of Kings! And to belong to His Kingdom is to belong to a realm that soars above the nonsense we find h…
Besides being a topic of some tremendous R&B songs, this psalm is about asking and receiving God's mercy. Listen and be blessed; earn how to be a blessing to others in the showing of mercy!
Lather, Rinse, and Repeat! Yes, that's on a shampoo bottle usually; but when we look at Israel and their faith story, we see semblances of our story in that as well. We sin, we find ourselves far f…
When is Jesus coming back? Do you have that date set in your calendar? Did Jesus have it set on His? No. Jesus said honestly and plainly that only the Father knew the day and the hour when He wou…
The Parable of the Talents, in a modern version of the Bible, still has the same impact, but does say that to live cautiously is to live criminally. Hmm? Is there any truth to that? Yes! We must …
The psalmist cherishes his family's history, and by family I mean his nation's history; stories that he wants told over and over again so that no one forgets how loving and involved God was in their …