June 12, 2021 | Psalm 84 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue When we were engaged, my wife and I had a long-distance relationship. We lived about four hours apart by car and every weekend one of us would make the pilgrimage to see the other. All year, we would wait impatiently for the end of each […]
May 7, 2021 | 1 Thessalonians 2:17–3:5 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Picture for a moment those first moments of a family reunion. The entire extended family is reunited— aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, and others. They may come from around the country or even fly in from overseas. They have not seen each other in […]
October 31, 2020 | Psalm 42 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue It has always amazed me that you do not have to teach children how to talk. Language is incredibly complex—as anyone who has tried to learn a second language knows well. Yet, children learn to speak just by listening to those around them. Their mastery […]
October 16, 2020 | Psalm 58 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Of the 3,500 species of snakes in the world, only about 600 are venomous. Nevertheless, snakes can do significant damage. According to the World Health Organization, every year 81,000 to 135,000 people die from snake bites. In today’s reading, David compares his enemies to snakes, […]
October 1, 2020 | Psalms 42–43 MONTHLY ISSUES This Month’s Issue “There are two easy ways to die in the desert: thirst and drowning,” says naturalist Craig Childs. We depend on water for life! In the second “book” of Psalms, our longing for God is compared to thirst. Chapters 42 and 43 were originally one […]