by Pat Cooper | May 13, 2019 | Daily Devotional
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. — John 13:34 Winston Churchill is credited with the famed quote: “If you’re going through hell keep going.” In times of adversity, that’s good advice. Biblical, actually. When...
by Pat Cooper | Apr 8, 2019 | Daily Devotional
Among the prophets of old, Isaiah is perhaps the most beloved and for good reason. If you will, allow your imagination a moment to drift back about 27 centuries with me. You are standing in the man of God’s chambers, peering over his shoulder as he dips his...
by Pat Cooper | Apr 2, 2019 | Daily Devotional
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. — Ephesians 2:4–5 Before his up-front and personal encounter with...
by Pat Cooper | Mar 20, 2019 | Daily Devotional
… The sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name… — John 10:3 One of my favorite artists of the ’70s was a folk/rock singer named Jim Croce. Between August of 1972 and December of 1973, Jim Croce stayed near the top of...
by Pat Cooper | Mar 8, 2019 | Daily Devotional
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. — 2 Corinthians 9:8 I don’t practice tithing as such. I practice faithfulness — faithfulness to God...
by Pat Cooper | Feb 5, 2019 | Daily Devotional
“For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God” — Acts 20:27 When the apostle Paul made that statement to the Ephesian elders, do you think sex talk may have been included in the package? That is, instruction concerning...
