Our Daily Journey Recent Devotionals
- Daily Devotional, June 30, 2011 "Salty Flavor"6/29/2011 - In his book Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions, George Barna reveals this interesting research statistic: Children are eight times more likely to accept Jesus as their Savior than teenagers and adults. Barna’s findings are important.
- Daily Devotional, June 29, 2011 "The XY Factor"6/28/2011 - Strategy games have never been my desire on game night. I remember the first time my husband taught me how to play RISK. Being a strong melancholy woman, I was devastated when after 2 hours of playing I had only a handful of soldiers to show for my efforts. In contrast, my husband had amassed a huge army—wiping me off the board in his campaign to conquer every continent
- Daily Devotional, June 27, 2011 "What Do You See?"6/27/2011 - You can look at a window and see its glass and frame or you can look through a window and see the mountain vista it’s there to reveal. Today’s passage is a little like that. A superficial reading will miss the beauty of all that we’re meant to understand. On first glance we see just another healing story about Jesus—albeit an unconventional one.
- Daily Devotional, June 27, 2011 "What Follows..."6/26/2011 - Someone close to me (and to those I love) recently made some poor decisions that affected us all, and what followed wasn’t pretty. Pain. Grief. Suffering. Those words capture the essence of the bitter sting brought by foolish choices.
- Daily Devotional, June 24, 2011 "Who Are You"6/23/2011 - Charles Taylor has a big ego. The former president of Liberia once attended an African conference in full combat gear, riding into town as his armed bodyguards jogged alongside his car. When he was accused of being a gunrunner and diamond smuggler, Taylor shamelessly addressed his people clothed in angelic white.
- Daily Devotional, June 23, 2011 "Dying to Live"6/22/2011 - How’s your dad?” a colleague asked me. “Struggling to die,” I replied. My 84-year-old dad has endured the painful debilitating effects of liver cancer for 2 years. Doctors have told me and my family to be prepared for his inevitable demise. So as he lies on that hospital bed, I feel his pain. In a weak voice, he recently said, “My time is almost up.” Dad isn’t struggling to live, but waiting to die.
- Daily Devotional, June 22, 2011 "Behind The Scenes"6/21/2011 - One of the things I appreciate about the Old Testament book of Esther is that God’s name isn’t mentioned in it—not even once. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not losing my belief in God! For me, the book’s omission of God’s name is a great reminder that even though He might appear to be absent, God is still present, quietly working behind the scenes.
- Daily Devotional, June 21, 2011 "Always True"6/20/2011 - Walking past me with a noticeable lump in his shirt, my son tried to act nonchalant as he hurried through the room. Not realizing how obvious he looked, he dropped his head and pulled out a pair of scissors when I asked him what he was hiding. Because he had taken to “redesigning” things in his room, we had banned him from unsupervised use of scissors.
- Daily Devotional, June 20, 2011 "Rude and Racist"6/20/2011 - Jesus could be harsh at times. He called Pharisees “whitewashed tombs” (that is, nice on the outside, disgusting within); He called Herod a “fox”; He even called Peter “Satan” (Matthew 23:27; Luke 13:32; Mark 8:33). Yes, Jesus could be forthright—but rude and racist? Some think today’s story proves so.
- Daily Devotional, June 17, 2011 "Let It Run"6/17/2011 - One truly thrilling moment in sports is the last quarter mile of a horse race, when “down the stretch they come!” Spectators are mildly interested in the initial legs of the race, as the horses jockey for position and conserve their energy for the home stretch. But their roar is deafening when the horses turn the final corner and break into a full gallop for the finish line.
- Daily Devotional, June 16, 2011 "Touch"6/15/2011 - Kiley had ventured outside her home country only once in her 18 years. So when she had the chance to go to Kenya to help with a medical mission, she was thrilled—and a little uneasy. After all, she didn’t have any real medical experience.
- Daily Devotional, June 15, 2011 "Relinquish Control"6/14/2011 - When I originally met the little Ugandan boy who eventually became my son, my goal was simply to keep him alive. After he overcame malnutrition and recovered from a long list of diseases, however, my dreams for his life quickly became bigger. For example, the first time my son—as a mere 5-yearold— petted a horse...
- Daily Devotional, June 14, 2011 "Batting 1.000"6/13/2011 - Baseball determines a player’s batting average by dividing his total number of hits by the number of times he’s batted. If a player hits the ball every time he bats, he’s batting 1.000 (or one thousand).
- Daily Devotional, June 13, 2011 "Escape"6/12/2011 - The bold print in a local news story caught my eye: “Increase in suicide rates in Singapore, male suicides double that of female.” The report goes on to say, “According to some psychiatrists, the higher number of suicides among men is not an unusual trend. . . .
- Daily Devotional, June 10, 2011 "Revealed"6/9/2011 - My list of projects to accomplish this weekend is somewhere near the level of insanity. As a teacher, I thrive on learning new things and finding innovative ways to communicate ideas to my students. So I have this nasty habit of creating projects for myself. Most times, I live somewhere on the continuum between order and chaos.
- Daily Devotional, June 9, 2011 "Jesus Among The Idols"6/9/2011 - According to anthropologists, worship is found in every culture. Deep within us lies an impulse to offer ourselves to someone or something that will give us meaning, security, and identity.
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