secretary Lead Me Not! View in browser March 7, 2023 Lead Me Not! Chris Mereschuk No temptation has seized you that isn’t common for people. God won’t allow you to be tempted beyond your abilities. With the temptation, God will also supply a way out so that you will be able to endure it. – 1 … Read more
Daily Devotional for Small Group Discussion: The Morning Watch View in browser March 6, 2023 The Morning Watch Kaji Douša My soul waits for the Lord. More than the keepers of the morning watch. More than the keepers of the morning watch. – Psalm 130:6 (adapted) Sometimes when I read the psalms, I skip over … Read more
The Long Haul View in browser March 5, 2023 The Long Haul Donna Schaper The Lord is good to those who wait for him. – Lamentations 3:25 (NRSV) Is the Lord also good to those who don’t wait? Or only to those who wait? What kind of waiting is holy and what kind is unholy? … Read more
Endure View in browser March 4, 2023 Endure Mary Luti Let us run with perseverance the race set before us, looking to Jesus … who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Consider him … so that you don’t grow weary or lose heart. – … Read more
No Human Enemies View in browser March 3, 2023 No Human Enemies Vicki Kemper Teach me to be love, as You are Love; Lead me through each fear; Hold my hand as I walk through the valleys of doubt each day, That I may know your peace. I believe that I shall know the Realm … Read more
Self-Exoneration View in browser March 2, 2023 Self-Exoneration Ken Samuel Though people tried to bribe me, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent through what your lips have commanded. My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not stumbled. – Psalm 17:4-5 (NIV) “This above all: to thine own self … Read more
Kicked Out or Freed? View in browser March 1, 2023 Kicked Out or Freed? Lillian Daniel Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” – Genesis 3:22b (NRSV) In the initial story of happiness, choices, and paradise lost, Adam and Eve lived in the Garden … Read more
Against Self-Sufficiency View in browser February 28, 2023 Against Self-Sufficiency Quinn Caldwell … [the unrighteous] entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. – 2 Peter 2:18-19 (NRSV) So much public discourse (and a great deal of private thinking) assumes … Read more
Daily Devotional for Small Group Discussion: A Prayer in Need of Tweaking View in browser February 27, 2023 A Prayer in Need of Tweaking Liz Miller Guard me as the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who despoil me, my deadly enemies who surround me. – … Read more
Until an Opportune Time View in browser February 26, 2023 Until an Opportune Time Talitha Arnold When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time. – Luke 4:13 (NRSV) The first time I read Luke’s account of the encounter between Jesus and the devil in the desert, its final … Read more