July 17, 2022 | Proverbs 6:6–11 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In Idaho, the summer days are gloriously long, which may lull some people into thinking winter will never come. But locals will remind you that winter is never far away. Industrious residents prepare for the cold months ahead by chopping and stacking wood, cleaning the […]
DEVOTIONAL | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2021 THE CALL OF GOD (TRIALS AND HARD TIMES) SCRIPTURE READINGS: Genesis 12:10, Genesis 13:5-9 EXPOSITION: The call of God is not free from trials and hard times. In the scriptures above you would notice that Abram encountered trials and hard times in his journey with God- the famine in […]
November 21, 2020 | Acts 19:21–20:12 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Doing the right thing, especially when it is a God-centered thing, is often met by opposition. While on his deathbed, evangelist John Wesley wrote a letter of encouragement to William Wilberforce, a British politician who led the movement to abolish the slave trade. “Unless God […]
A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE February 22, 2020 | Esther 7:5–10 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue The idiom “stuck between a rock and a hard place” can be traced back to Homer’s epic poem Odyssey, in which Odysseus must pass between Scylla, a cliff-dwelling monster (the rock), and Charybdis, a treacherous whirlpool (the hard place). […]