by Joy Vroonland | Feb 14, 2020 | Daily Devotional
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. — Romans 8: 1–2 “The marks of a Christian should be freedom and joy.”...
by Joy Vroonland | Dec 10, 2019 | Daily Devotional
Jesus was not the kind of king the Jews were expecting as they waited for the Messiah. They wanted an earthly king, but Jesus came to be King of our hearts. “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting,...
by Joy Vroonland | Sep 24, 2019 | Daily Devotional
Our lives have just taken a major detour, and I’m discovering how very great God is in ways I just couldn’t see from the mountaintop. In mid to late August, a bunch of things started unraveling in the life of a very close relative. We would have a role,...
by Joy Vroonland | Aug 20, 2019 | Daily Devotional
Sometimes prayer barely has words. We hardly know what to say, or we don’t know at all; maybe we can’t even speak. We are at the end of ourselves, and there is no good solution. Our tears can be prayers, too. Jesus prayed a wordless prayer when, out of...
by Joy Vroonland | Apr 23, 2019 | Daily Devotional
Jesus came, lived and died for us. But that is not the end of the story. The grave is empty. He is risen! He is risen, indeed! It is finished. The work is done. So, what’s next? I once heard a preacher, Hud McWilliams, say that the marks of a Christian should be...
by Joy Vroonland | Mar 19, 2019 | Daily Devotional
My mom died 12 years ago today. I really miss her. She’s the one who gave me my name. If she told the story once, she told it a couple hundred times. Because of an illness and treatment my father had had years before I was conceived, they didn’t know if I...
