Devotionals

He opened his eyes, but could see nothing. Something covered his face. A musty smell filled his nostrils and a damp chill reached inward to his very bones. He felt disoriented, not knowing where he was. Now he remembered. He had been sick and in bed. A high fever....

Betsy came to me crying one day. As we began to discuss her problem, she explained that she had committed adultery three times in her life. The last time she had been caught, her husband had divorced her. She had been single again for little over a year. "I know that...

I was speaking one night in a church around the theme, "God's Great Gift of Salvation." I was to spend the weekend there teaching through the book of Ephesians. The particular passage from which I taught talked about how that God chose us in Christ before the...

Last week I was riding back from the DMZ between South and North Korea during a ministry trip there. The demilitarized zone is the most fortified boundary on the planet. For over 50 years it has been one of the most tense places on the earth. A minefield separates two...

When NASA was created in 1958, it was President Eisenhower who decided how the astronauts would be chosen. All would have to be miliary pilots, younger than 40 and under 5'11" (a space capsule couldn't take anyone larger than that), in perfect shape and an expert jet...

A few weeks ago I was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where I was speaking in a local church. My friend Tim and I had shared the pulpit during the weekend and were scheduled to fly home on Monday morning. At the end of the last church service, the pastor stood in front of...

Sometimes God makes no sense to me. I simply can't understand why He allows certain things to happen in our lives. Recently, two friends experienced a horrible tragedy. This couple was driving down the Interstate when the driver of another car on the opposite side of...

For many years the concept of rest was so foreign to me that I couldn't comprehend it. I didn't know rest was a gift from God. I thought it was a sin. The invitation of Jesus to those who would follow Him is amazing - "Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden,...