Devotional by Lydia Farnsworth

Be still and know that I am God. (Ps. 46:10) I have plans to give you a hope and future. (Jer. 29:11) In all thy ways, acknowledge Him, and He will direct thy paths. (Prov. 3:6) I will be with you always, even to the ends of the earth. (Mt. 28:20) My husband and I [...]

Devotional by Phil Vavra

Where’s Jesus? Art Linkletter was right. Kids do say the “darndest” things. But it’s not always what they say, as much as it is when they say it that garners the guffaws. We were sitting in another church’s worship service one Sunday morning in 2006. The minister had concluded a prayer, the congregation punctuated it [...]

Devotional by Clarence Eden

MIRACLE I find it interesting that “miracle” is not a biblical word, yet the Bible is replete with events that take on the nature of miracle, such as Jesus turning water into wine at Cana. The restoration of Lazarus from the dead was, to those who were around him, clearly supernatural. The chief example was [...]

Devotional by Judy Biber

Ben Zoma says: Who is rich? The one who appreciates what he has… (Talmud—Avot 4:1) A Lesson from My Dad Once my brother and I were adults with families of our own, at almost every gathering of our family, my dad would say, “I’m a rich man!”. Sometimes he would whisper it into the ear [...]

Devotional by Sally Young

I lift up my eyes to the hills- from where will my help come? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. Pslam 121:1-2 One of the joys of my life is my membership in the commenting community of Achenblog, Joel Achenbach’s blog on washingtonpost.com. It’s comprised of smart people from all [...]

Devotional by Lou Fuller

Ps 46:10 Romans 8:38-39 Which is worse? To face a single, daunting foe or to be surrounded by innumerable small but deadly attackers? This morning a friend shared pictures of her cruise to the Caribean, including a snorkeling with sharks experience. She’d described the snorkeling as terrifying, although she was in a controlled setting, with [...]

Devotional by Judy Biber

Devotional, February 21, 2012: “We were happy, and we didn’t know it!” There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, [...]

Devotional by Todd Stillerman

DEVOTIONAL FEBRUARY 14, 2012 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. – Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV) A few Sundays ago, Debbie and I took our 4-year-old son, Will, to lunch after church. We were meeting several members of our [...]

Devotional by Lia Benton

In the past few months I’ve been thinking about the familiar in new ways. Credit goes to our Martha Kearse. She presented a Wednesday night program about our church wide focus of welcoming guests by reading Green Eggs and Ham. What’s so unusual about that? We all know that beloved Dr. Seuss tale; so well [...]

Devotional by Randy Brantley

One of my spiritual disciplines is reading a daily devotion each night before I go to bed. My regular resource is Reflections, published by Smyth & Helwys and available to everyone at St. John’s Baptist. This exercise has become such a part of my life that, should I forget to pick up the next edition [...]