HUMAN WORDS AND GOD’S WORDS September 9, 2019 | Psalm 12 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In 2002, a researcher from the University of Massachusetts studied how often people tell a lie during daily conversations. He found that 60 percent of adults were not able to get through a ten-minute conversation without lying at least once. […]
FLIGHT OR FAITH September 8, 2019 | Psalm 11 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Thomas Edison was determined to invent a commercially viable electric lightbulb. He knew the value it would bring to the average person. Yet after 9,000 failed attempts, his friends and family began to ask if he was ready to give up. A […]
PRAISE AND LAMENT September 7, 2019 | Psalms 9–10 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In the preface to his commentary on the Psalms, John Calvin describes the book in this way, “I have been accustomed to call this book . . . ‘An Anatomy of all the Parts of the Soul,’ for there is not an […]
GOD OF WONDERS September 6, 2019 | Psalm 8 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In 2009, Susan Boyle achieved international fame for her audition on Britain’s Got Talent. She did not seem like the usual contestant. She was forty-seven years old and unemployed, and no one expected much from her—until she began to sing. Her brilliant […]
GOD OF JUSTICE September 5, 2019 | Psalm 7 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Seventeen-year-old Shareef Cousin found himself the youngest person in the United States on death row. Shareef had been convicted of murder even though he had what seemed like an airtight alibi. Afterward it was determined that the detective on the case lied […]
NOT TOO PROUD TO BEG September 4, 2019 | Psalm 6 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Navy Seals undergo a rigorous physical and mental trial appropriately named “Hell Week.” During, this week the new recruits are constantly in motion. They are required to run, swim, do sit-ups and push-ups, endure cold water, and accomplish difficult tasks, […]
WAITING ON GOD September 3, 2019 | Psalm 5 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Several years ago, passengers at a Houston airport were complaining about how long they had to wait at the baggage claim. So, airport executives hired more baggage handlers and cut the wait time down to eight minutes. However, the complaints did not […]
THE LIES OF THE ENEMY September 2, 2019 | Psalms 3–4 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Sam Johnson was a fighter pilot in Vietnam. On his 25th mission, he was shot down and spent the next seven and a half years as a POW in the “Hanoi Hilton.” About half of that time he spent in […]
THE TEMPLE OF PRAISE September 1, 2019 | Psalms 1–2 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue At the entrance to Solomon’s Temple stood two 28-and-a-half-foot tall bronze pillars. These pillars were elaborately decorated with capitals in the shape of lilies (1 Kings 7:15–22). Each pillar was given a name: Jachin and Boaz. They served as a grand gateway […]
The vow Love Love isn’t just an emotion. Love isn’t just a feeling of belonging. Love is life and the yardstick to maintaining any form of relationship through the test of time. Watch this interesting write up and act by Elvis Opare as he take about the vow on the day of marriage. Written and […]