On Monday, we looked at the lessons we can learn from David in Psalm 5:1-3. This devotional will focus on one more lesson from these same verses:“Listen to my words, Lord, consider my lament. Hear my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray. In...
I was sitting at my kitchen table sipping my morning coffee while the news played on the television. Suddenly, a long series of commercials came on. Each one droned on the drumbeat of more, more, more. They urged us to buy more, to have more, and to do more. Finally I...
It was an early Autumn afternoon several years ago. The air was warm and the sun was bright but I still felt cold and gloomy on the inside. I was visiting my Dad in the local nursing home. I found him asleep in his bed. It felt so strange. He never slept in the...
“Listen to my words, Lord, consider my lament. Hear my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray.” (Psalm 5:1-2 NIV)I love this verse. It shows me that David spent time talking with his Heavenly Father. And if David, a man loved by God’s own heart...
I read about some mouth-watering sourdough bread made at a bakery in San Francisco.It hadn't been replicated anywhere else. As it turns out, there was a secret to the taste that had nothing to do with the recipe. As Larry Osborne explains, "It's a bacterium that...
As a classroom teacher, it always did my heart good to see how my students sometimes tried to “protect” me…Once, at the end of the school day, a students dad came unannounced to my classroom. By the look on his face I knew there was a problem. I wracked my brain to...
"You are the world's seasoning, to make it tolerable. If you lose your flavor, what will happen to the world? And you yourselves will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless." (Matthew 5:13 TLB)Last Sunday I was on my own at church with my 8...
