As the book of Acts opens, God is growing His church by the thousands over a period of just a few days. This creates some logistical problems for the apostles, so they decide to recruit seven helpers—people who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. One of these helpers is a guy named Philip, a man who will become a … [Read more...]
#TrendingTruth
As I write this devotion, the following topics are trending on Twitter; #GalaxyS6, #voteonedirection, #kca. If you’re not on Twitter this might look like code, so here is the easiest way to explain it: these are topics Twitter users are tweeting right now. “Trending” topics change as often as people get tired of talking about … [Read more...]
What’s the Plan?
Quick Backdrop Has this ever happened to you? You do something bad. Your parents say, “If you do that again you will be in trouble.” Then you do it again. And your parents say, “If you do that again you will be in trouble.” And you do it again. Still no trouble. Your parents have been gracious, or maybe lenient. You do it … [Read more...]
Power Over Your Thought Life
Experts say that the human mind can think 50,000-70,000 thoughts per day? That can wear you out just thinking about it! With so many thoughts running through our minds, we have many opportunities for those thoughts to take us places we shouldn’t go. Maybe that’s why the Bible speaks a lot about controlling our thoughts. Our … [Read more...]
Own Our Own: Growing Up in Faith
As we grow up, we experience things that tell us we are doing just that—growing up. Harder school classes, more homework, driver’s license, weekend freedom and more responsibility. We have one more to add: taking ownership of our faith. Growing up in our faith involves taking the responsibility off of our parents and putting it … [Read more...]
Spiritual Momentum
Think about the last time you started something but didn’t finish. What made you start? When we’re excited about starting something new, it’s easy at first. But as we know, new things get old and it becomes harder to keep up the momentum. Faith is a lot like this. It’s a journey. There will be days when your journey feels like … [Read more...]
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