THE GOOD SHEPHERD September 17, 2019 | Psalm 23 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue According to Time magazine, the most popular song in the world is the Disney anthem, “It’s a Small World.” It was written by the Sherman Brothers whom Walt Disney told, “I need one song that can be easily translated into many languages […]
FROM DESPAIR TO HOPE September 16, 2019 | Psalm 22 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus makes only one statement from the cross, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani” (which means ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’)” (Mark 15:34). Many people understand Jesus’ words as a cry of despair. Some […]
FROM DESPAIR TO HOPE September 16, 2019 | Psalm 22 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus makes only one statement from the cross, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani” (which means ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’)” (Mark 15:34). Many people understand Jesus’ words as a cry of despair. Some […]
SPEAKING OF HIS WONDER September 14, 2019 | Psalm 19 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue According to the National Solar Observatory, the core temperature of the sun is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. Every second of every day, the sun releases five million tons of pure energy. Consider that the sun is one of trillions of stars […]
RESCUED AT LAST September 13, 2019 | Psalm 18 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In 2010 a mine in Chile collapsed trapping thirty-three miners over two thousand feet underground. An international rescue team worked round the clock for days, drilling exploratory holes from the surface to locate the missing men. After seventeen days, when food and […]
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 […]
INVITATION TO WORSHIP September 11, 2019 | Psalms 15–16 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In July 2017, Canada’s governor general found himself embroiled in a controversy. While descending a flight of steps alongside the Queen of England, he touched the Queen’s elbow to assist her. What was meant as an act of service was actually seen […]
LAMENT AS GRIEF September 10, 2019 | Psalms 13–14 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In 2014, psychologists from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville conducted an experiment with undergraduate students. They put each student in a room with no distractions. Then they told them that, if they wanted to, they could push a button and shock […]
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 […]