Pastor’s Blog

Daily Devotional July 7, 2022

“LORD, deliver me from lying lips and a dishonest tongue!” (Psalm 120:2, CEB).

     It wasn’t my finest hour. Half-time of the Ohio State-Michigan game had mercifully arrived. My team was losing, badly. I had lost all hope for a win. I needed a pick-me-up.

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Daily Devotional July 6, 2022

“All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name”

Psalm 66:4, ESV


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Daily Devotional July 5, 2022

 “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves

be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1, NIV).


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Daily Devotional July 1, 2022

“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall
understand fully, even as I have been fully understood” (1 Corinthians 13:12, RSV).
 
       Seven years ago, my family and I traveled to Burlington, Vermont. During the visit I was
introduced to the concept of a “Witch Window.” A witch window is turned sideways and placed at
a forty-five degree angle in a farmhouse’s gable-end wall.

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Daily Devotional June 30, 2022

“ Until you grow old. I am the one, and until you turn gray I will support you. I have
done it, and I will continue to bear it; I will support and I will rescue”
(Isaiah 46:4, GNT).

     The yearbooks are out. It’s that time of year when we discover who is the most likely to be eaten by a T-Rex or who has the greatest odds of finding Jimmy Hoffa. (At my ten-year reunion, I was voted least likely to do what I do professionally.)


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DAILY DEVOTIONAL – Day 28

“Do for others what you want them to do for you: this is the meaning of the Law of Moses and of the teachings of the prophets” (Matthew 7:12, GNT).

 

     They say that necessity makes strange bed fellows. Who would conceive that a tarantula and a frog would become faithful friends? It’s true. Microhylids, or narrow-mouth frogs, live with tarantulas and feed on the tiny insects that burrow into the ground and eat the spiders’ eggs.


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