Pastor’s Blog
Daily Devotional July 13, 2022
Read Matthew 18:21-22
I recently came across this story from author, Joseph Marshall III:
A playground dispute in the fourth grade concluded with a barrage of epithets hurled
at me, each one more stinging than the other before. I was called every derogatory name
for Indians that two white fourth-grade classmates could remember. Stunned, I could
think of nothing equally hurtful to throw back.
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Daily Devotional July 12, 2022
“Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish
three days and nights” (Jonah 1:17, NIV)
three days and nights” (Jonah 1:17, NIV)
A Cape Cod lobster diver has a big fish tale of the one that got away. Michael Packard was retrieving lobster traps from the sandy bottom off of Herring Beach when he claimed, “All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black.”
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Daily Devotional July 11, 2022
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do
not give up” (Galatians 6:9, NIV)
not give up” (Galatians 6:9, NIV)
I am watching perseverance in action as I write. A squirrel has figured out how to navigate around the baffle I installed last night to the bird feeder. It took about thirty minutes and countless attempts. But the rodent finally scored it prize. Squirrel 1: Me 0.
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Daily Devotional July 8, 2022
“The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only
to poverty” (Proverbs 21:5, ESV).
to poverty” (Proverbs 21:5, ESV).
I received an unwelcomed visitor the other day. A June Bug chose to make company on my nose. The insect’s decision proved to be unwise, as I unceremoniously swatted it to the ground.
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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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