Devotionals

When we hear the phrase “loving God,” we often think about the spiritual high we had when we gave our lives to Him. Sometimes, we think of getting caught up in a worshipful moment or even doing acts of service on His behalf. However, there’s an important piece of loving God that often gets overlooked, and it’s a concept we’ve been learning over the past year – trusting God. Trust is a key foundation for any relationship, but especially our relationship with God. God demands and requires our complete trust if we’re to be the most effective followers we can...

In the days following Jesus’ resurrection, we read in Luke 24 about His appearance to the disciples on the road to Emmaus. In that story, we learn about their discussions and about the dinner these disciples had with Jesus. We read of their breaking of bread and their ultimate realization that they’d been speaking to Jesus in the flesh all along. The moments following that dinner were filled with excitement as those disciples rushed to tell others what happened. But as we look back on their joy from that dinner with Jesus, there’s something important to remember – Jesus wouldn’t...

 I get all kinds of texts and this one was not unusual. “Chris, what is that verse of the Christmas carol that you like so much?” “You mean the Wesley one? The one about ‘second Adam from above?’” “Yeah, that one – what are the words?” Ben had been in my mentoring group and we had talked about the verses that are seldom sung. “That’s ‘Hark the herald angels sing,’ and the verse that I love is this: ‘Come, Desire of nations come, fix in us thy humble home;‘Rise, the woman’s conq’ring seed, bruise in us the serpent’s head. Adam’s...