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Latest Devotionals

February 1, 2025

Letters from Home

When our grandson was in high school, he got into some trouble and was sent to a group home for teens. We earnestly desired to help him in any way we...

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January 31, 2025

God Is Working

I had registered for a professional examination that would be held outside of my town. I would need to travel, and the transportation fare was due one week before the examination...

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January 30, 2025

“Do You Talk to Jesus?”

One morning after church, my pastor and I were discussing some church business when I noticed that my four-year-old granddaughter was not with me. As I looked around, I noticed her...

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January 29, 2025

My Consolation

In 2009, my grandmother died of tuberculosis. I felt numb and weak with grief, but I couldn’t cry until the burial day. I felt heavy watching the pallbearers lower her casket...

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January 28, 2025

Get Up!

“Ring!” goes the alarm. It is a sound most of us do not like much because it marks the time to leave a soft, warm bed to get up and start...

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January 27, 2025

Dividing Walls

When my daughters were younger, they shared a bedroom. Most days, they viewed it as some sort of horrible punishment, and one day they’d had all they could take. When I...

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January 26, 2025

Unfamiliar Paths

One morning I caught a ride before sunrise. As I rode in the back of the pickup truck, I could see hundreds of stars in the black sky, including familiar constellations....

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January 25, 2025

Filled with Righteousness

During a retreat, I was assigned to a table that included two residents of a substance-abuse treatment center. I normally would have had no occasion to converse and pray with men...

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January 24, 2025

Refreshed by God’s Creation

I enjoy walking at the park early in the morning. As I listen attentively to the singing of the birds, my soul offers praise to God with thanks for a new...

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January 23, 2025

A True Relationship

When I was growing up, my mother made sure that her four children were in church every Sunday. I was baptized and confirmed. In college, I met and later married a...

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