by Crystal Brashear | Apr 23, 2020 | Daily Devotional
How lonely life must have been for the man in John 9! Born blind, sitting on the sidelines, begging day after day as people passed him by. Or perhaps worse, as they talked about him right in front of him, as if he was also born deaf. Surrounded by people, yet cut off...
by Crystal Brashear | Mar 19, 2020 | Daily Devotional
There’s this icebreaker game that groups play called Never Have I Ever. (I’ve heard that it’s also been used at social gatherings for various purposes, but that’s not the point here, folks. Try to focus, please.) Players sit in a circle facing...
by Crystal Brashear | Feb 13, 2020 | Daily Devotional
Yep, it totally fits… I would land in the devotional writing rotation on the week we are discussing shame. After all, anyone who knows me well knows that shame is perhaps my biggest struggle. I dread the way that shame washes over me when I realize I have made...
by Crystal Brashear | Dec 12, 2019 | Daily Devotional
It can be easy to miss the Messiah, Jesus Christ. In John 6:1—13, Jesus fed thousands of people with only five small loaves and two fish. He provided another in a long series of tangible signs that he was the one who had been prophesied about for centuries, the...
by Crystal Brashear | Oct 31, 2019 | Daily Devotional
Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the...
by Crystal Brashear | Sep 25, 2019 | Daily Devotional
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, ‘Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.’ But God led the people around by the way of the...
