Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10Yesterday, while standing in line at the bank, I struck up a conversation with a soldier.During our...
O Lord, You have searched me and know me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down. You search out my path and are acquainted with all my ways. Psalm 139:1-3I have a friend whose work...
"As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good." 2 Thessalonians 3:13Jarrette Schule owns some property in Comal County, Texas.It was while he was cutting some trees on that semi-remote piece of property that Schule came across something that looked like a...
By this we know love, that He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 1 John 3:16It was just a few minutes before 7 a.m. when the 14-year-old girl got on the Yazoo County, Mississippi, school bus and made her way toward the...
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7I'm not exactly sure where Eve -- you know, the Eve from the book of Genesis -- came from.I'm pretty sure she didn't hale from Council Bluffs, Iowa.If Eve had come from that town,...
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9A brief note for those receiving this Daily Devotion for the first time: This Daily Devotion from Lutheran Hour Ministries has been sent to you...
You are a hiding place for me; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with shouts of deliverance. Psalm 32:7Anne Frank's Diary.In our high school German class at Concordia, Milwaukee, we had to translate The Diary of Anne Frank. Back then, as I concentrated on...
