DEVOTIONS

Scripture: Psalm 139:8 – “If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.” Has anyone ever told you that you “exhaust them?” When Tom and I began dating, apparently, I had some deep-rooted ...

Scripture: Isaiah 43:1 – “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.” It’s one thing to be rescued. It’s another thing to be renamed. Mary Magdalene didn’t just experience freedom—she experienced an ...

Scripture: Matthew 28:19-20 – "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations… And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." “Follow me” was the call. A man sitting in a tax booth, counting coins, living in the tension ...

Scripture: Matthew 10:30 – "And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered." Matthew noticed things. In The Chosen, his mind worked in patterns, sequences, tiny details that others overlooked. The precise way coins stacked in his ...

Scripture: Luke 5:28 – “And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.” I felt called to ministry at a young age. (Before I even knew what ministry was, I preached to my cats on a swingset, feeding them each individual packets of food so ...

Scripture: Matthew 9:9 There's a certain kind of loneliness that doesn't come from being alone—it comes from being unseen. Maybe you know that feeling. Sitting in a crowded room, yet feeling invisible. Walking through your normal life ...

It starts small. A slight adjustment to a number here, a conveniently forgotten expense there. A little pay under the table. Who notices, right? Tax season rolls around, and the temptation creeps in—who would even notice? The system feels ...

In the weeks following my personal emotional healing experience, I realized something unexpected. The healing itself wasn’t the greatest gift. It was how the experience had stripped away my self-sufficiency and opened me to a deeper dependence ...

Scripture: John 5:8-9 "Jesus said to him, 'Get up, take up your bed, and walk.' And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked." I was sitting in my car last Tuesday, engine idling, staring blankly at the dashboard. My ...

Scripture: John 5:7-9 "The sick man answered him, 'Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.' Jesus said to him, 'Get up, take up your bed, and walk.' And at ...

Scripture: John 5:6 "When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, 'Do you want to be healed?'" I still remember the day my therapist leaned forward in his chair and asked me a ...