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July 25 – What Are You Saying?
1 Corinthians 11:17-34; 2 Kings 5; Obadiah 1 T-Shirts make interesting statements. My son was known for some of the most amusing...
Jul 25, 20193 min read


July 24 – Leading By Example
1 Corinthians 11:1-16; 2 Kings 4; Amos 9 How would you define “leadership?” Leadership must be an important subject when you consider all...
Jul 24, 20193 min read


July 23 – I Can Do Anything!
1 Corinthians 10; 2 Kings 3; Amos 8 I believe that no one likes rules, except for the people who make them, and the people who enforce...
Jul 23, 20193 min read


July 22 – A Passion For The Call
1 Corinthians 9; 2 Kings 1-2; Amos 7 There seems to be a new way to judge preaching today. Great preachers are on TV, or podcast, or...
Jul 21, 20193 min read


July 21 – Surrendering Freedoms
1 Corinthians 8; 1 Kings 22; Amos 6 A quote from Benjamin Franklin surfaced about fifteen years ago and people post it to social media...
Jul 21, 20193 min read


July 20 – Focus
1 Corinthians 7:25-40; 1 Kings 21; Amos 5 We love distractions. Sometimes they help get our minds off of our problems. Executives measure...
Jul 20, 20193 min read


July 19 – Mutual Respect
1 Corinthians 7:1-24; 1 Kings 20; Amos 4:4-13 If you get married in Scotland, there is a tradition that’s designed to make sure that the...
Jul 19, 20193 min read


July 18 – As You Were….
1 Corinthians 6; 1 Kings 19; Amos 3:3-4:3 The Sexual Revolution began in the 1960’s. Attitudes changed so that Christian values relating...
Jul 18, 20193 min read


July 17 – Who Gets the Grace?
1 Corinthians 5; 1 Kings 18; Amos 2:1-3:2 I had an interesting experience while traveling in Rwanda. I was able to post my devotionals...
Jul 17, 20193 min read


July 16 – Success
1 Corinthians 4; 1 Kings 17; Amos 1 We all want to be “successful.” We really want our children to be “successful” and we hear stories of...
Jul 16, 20193 min read


July 15 – The Perfect Church
1 Corinthians 3; 1 Kings 15:33-16:34; Joel 3 In ancient Israel, the building of the Temple was important. It was the center of all life,...
Jul 15, 20193 min read


July 14 – Human Wisdom or the Power of God?
1 Corinthians 2; 1 Kings 15:1-32; Joel 2:12-32 There is a popular Christian teaching floating around the theological world these days. I...
Jul 14, 20193 min read


July 13 – Foolishness or Power?
1 Corinthians 1:18-31; 1 Kings 14; Joel 2:1-11 I remember messing up as a child. I would do something foolish, and my dad or my mom would...
Jul 13, 20193 min read


July 12 – Becoming One
1 Corinthians 1:1-17; 1 Kings 12:32-13:34; Joel 1 It’s a meme that never grows old. This is the one that reminds us that, “You had one...
Jul 11, 20193 min read


July 11 – Breaking Up is Easy – Comparatively
Mark 16; 1 Kings 12:1-31; Hosea 14 Forming a new country isn’t easy. When South Sudan became an independent country in 2011, certain...
Jul 11, 20193 min read


July 10 – Taunting Jesus
Mark 15:21-47; 1 Kings 11; Hosea 13 Trash talking is apparently an art. Google it and you will find lists of the best trash talk lines of...
Jul 10, 20193 min read


July 9 – Pardon Me
Mark 15:1-20; 1 Kings 10; Hosea 11:12-12:14 One of the “perks” of being president is the ability to issue pardons to people convicted of...
Jul 9, 20193 min read


July 8 – Got Any Identification?
Mark 14:32-72; 1 Kings 9; Hosea 11:1-11 As Debit cards first came into use, they were called “check cards.” Bob Dole made fun of his 1996...
Jul 7, 20193 min read


July 7 – Dealing With Criticism
Mark 14:1-31; 1 Kings 8; Hosea 9:17-10:15 You may have heard the joke about the donkey, the boy, and the old man heading into town. At...
Jul 7, 20193 min read


July 6 – A Day of Reckoning
Mark 13:14-37; 1 Kings 7; Hosea 9:1-16 In the movie “Return of the Jedi,” Luke Skywalker freed Han Solo from his carbonite freezer. While...
Jul 6, 20193 min read
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