Daily Devotional

The last couple of nights I’ve been sleeping on a bed with memory foam. Memory foam is so true to its name. No matter how long you lay on it, or how much pressure you put on it, it goes right back to the shape it was before. Our memories are just like that; no […]

When I think of Paul and Silas singing praises to God, having been beaten, and chained and imprisoned. When I think of Daniel at peace in the Lions den, or young David confidently approaching the almost 10 foot Goliath, and many other examples in scripture of people confidently facing extraordinary stresses and danger it makes

There are times in our lives when we simply feel overwhelmed. We are always hearing people say that God won’t allow more than we can handle to come into our lives, but the truth is that He often allows more than we can handle. Our loving God intentionally allows us to feel overwhelmed, to teach

Yesterday and today is the beginning of the Jewish month Elul, which is the last month of the Jewish year. During this month the great emphasis is Psalm 27, and every Jew, is to read and contemplate this psalm twice everyday during Elul. Psalm 27 was written toward the end of David’s life when He

Others have said that identity is bestowed. This is so very true. We draw our identity from outside of ourselves. This is true about us because we are created to be relational. We are created to and for love, and therefore our identity is formed in significant relationships. We are especially impacted by important people

At the heart of who we are as Christians is we are Loved and are Lovers. This is our true identity. This is our foundation for which everything else in our lives operate. This was certainly true about David. In psalm 17 he said, ” Lord keep me as the Apple of Your Eye.” We

In John 15 Jesus said, “I am the Vine, you are the Branches.” In verse 1 of that chapter He said He was the true Vine. Phillippians 4:19 says, “And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” What these verses are saying is that Jesus is

Nothing is quite so tormenting as a spirit of accusation. It happens to all of us no matter where we are in our walk with the Lord, and the intent of the enemy is to use accusation to choke out our hearts. Jesus is always trying to awaken us to be confident in love, and

I’ve been meditating a lot about Jesus’ statement in John 8 about being the light of the world, and the light of life. Here is the whole verse. Again therefore Jesus spoke to them saying (repeatedly), “I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall

John 8:28 Jesus therefore said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me. John 8:29 “And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone,