Daily Devotionals

You Can't Fight Your Nature

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Posted by Brook Bailey on Feb 20, 2017

Nearly 11 years ago, we adopted Parker the Wonderdog when he was just a three-month-old puppy. As it turns out, he is a natural-born hunter. If you’re a bug, mouse, possum or rabbit, I don’t recommend hanging out in our back yard, because Parker will chase you, and there’s a good ...

A few years ago, I had a conversation with a guy about running. My heart and mind have always loved the idea of a good run, but my body, even at my peak times of fitness, has always rebelled. Literally, running has always made me sick. My favorite trainer can testify. Anyway, I was expressing this ...

My wife loves her boot camp buddies. Even though their workouts are at 5:30 in the morning, even though it is dark and cold at that hour, and even though their time together involves a significant amount of pain and effort, she loves being with them. Why? Community. As much as we may value our ...

Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. — James 5:16 Since becoming a Christian when I was 14, I have been in a number of important Christian communities, including confirmation ...

Joining the Body

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Posted by Casey Coats on Feb 14, 2017

Being a father of three young children, I hear certain phrases almost daily: “Bubba hit me!” “Will you wipe my bobo?” “That’s mine!” “I don’t want to take a nap!” And then there’s, “I can do it all by myself.” ...

Getting Connected

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Posted by Randy Wade on Feb 13, 2017

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might ...

Run Your Race

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Posted by David Griffin on Feb 10, 2017

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him ...

The Homecoming

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Posted by Kevin Kelley on Feb 09, 2017

In the late 1800s, Horatio Spafford lost just about everything as a result of the Great Fire of Chicago. Shortly thereafter, Spafford decided to take his family on a vacation to England. He was delayed on business at the last moment, but Spafford sent his wife and four daughters (ages 2–11) ...

The Least of These

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Posted by Lisalette Hamon on Feb 08, 2017

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his ...

Then Jesus went out to the lakeshore again and taught the crowds that were coming to him. As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him. Later, Levi invited ...