PRAISE IS LIFE September 23, 2019 | Psalm 30 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In the early 1970s, Charles Colson rose to political power as Special Counsel to the President of the United States. But all of that came crashing down when he was indicted in the Watergate scandal. After being sent to prison, Colson came […]
YOUR KINGDOM COME September 12, 2019 | Psalm 17 DEVOTION This Month’s Issue Children have an innate sense of fairness. If you give a piece of cake to each of two siblings, they will carefully examine each slice to ensure that they did not get the smaller one. Or, if one child gets a consequence […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Maasai is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people. The Maasai people are mostly cattle headers. The Assemblies of God church (Ghana) on a mission program went to Kenya to evangelize to the Maasai people. Showing of Jesus film was the church’s own mode of propagating the […]
MY CLINICAL ROTATION DIARY FINAL EPISODE Hello! Thanks for joining me thus far. I’m glad we made it to the final episode. Woohoo! Internal Medicine Department This department is another I really enjoyed joining. I got to choose my unit (Infectious diseases), and was grateful I did. I’ll begin from the really cool consultant we […]
AN UNEXPECTED GIFT April 6, 2019 | Genesis 17:1–8; 15–22 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue What will you be doing when you are 99? While the average life expectancy has increased to 76 for men and 81 for women, most of us cannot begin to imagine what happens in today’s passage. God appears to Abram, just […]
THE GIFT OF KNOWING GOD April 5, 2019 | Acts 17:16–34 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue A great number of people today consider themselves agnostic, meaning they don’t believe there is enough evidence to confirm or deny the existence of God. British philosopher Bertrand Russell explained the difference between a Christian, an atheist, and an agnostic: […]