by Crystal Brashear | Aug 22, 2019 | Daily Devotional
Lots of people have a favorite verse or passage of Scripture that just speaks to them in a special way. Here’s mine: Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not...
by Crystal Brashear | Jul 18, 2019 | Daily Devotional
Years ago, I had the privilege of participating in Beth Moore’s Bible study called Believing God, which explores the lives of people like Abraham and Moses. These were not perfect men. These were men who doubted themselves, who doubted their own abilities to...
by Crystal Brashear | Jun 27, 2019 | Daily Devotional
O Lord, you have searched me and known me! — Psalm 139:1 Even before I knew myself, before there was a self to be known, You knew me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are...
by Crystal Brashear | May 30, 2019 | Daily Devotional
Have you ever thought deeply about the word encourage? It comes from the Latin root cour, which means heart, with the prefix en, which means to put in. Thus, the idea of encouragement is to put something into one’s heart. The heart is like a treasure box, a...
by Crystal Brashear | Apr 25, 2019 | Daily Devotional
When I was younger, I believed a lot of stupid things. For example, I believed that having bangs that stuck up a mile high, defying gravity by virtue of a gallon of hairspray, was beautiful. I believed that having an armful of Swatches, a Coca-Cola shirt, Guess jeans...
by Crystal Brashear | Mar 21, 2019 | Daily Devotional
OK, let’s play a game. I’m going to start a poem, and you finish it for me: Roses are red violets are blue… Did you know the rest? Many of us can’t even remember where we first learned that poem. Was it in kindergarten, during...
