January 19, 2022 | Galatians 2:11-21 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue What can we learn from our disagreements? In today’s passage, we’re given a front row seat to a conflict between Peter and Paul. But while their disagreement was great, so was the learning that resulted! Earlier, Paul had taught Peter and other leaders about God’s […]
January 5, 2022 | Acts 26 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue God called me back to school at age 40 to earn a Ph.D. I wasn’t entirely happy about it. I preferred learning on my own. Even in a good program with terrific professors, there were days I understood why some say that PHD means […]
May 31, 2021 | 2 Thessalonians 3:16–18 DEVOTIONS If there was a recording of our conversation for an entire day, what would it reveal? As our words played back, would God be glorified in our language? In their book, Redeeming How We Talk, Ken Wytsma and A. J. Swoboda wrote: “Words are not to give […]
May 20, 2021 | 1 Thessalonians 5:25–28 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Nowadays, we authenticate or verify as genuine a person’s identity through such means as government-issued picture ID cards or notarized signatures. Higher standards of proof can be met by fingerprints, retinal scans, or DNA matching. These techniques were not available in the ancient world, of […]