Fishing Without Him
August 29, 2025 by Matthew McCord
Filed under Daily Devotions, Worship
He let them go fishing alone. They had caught nothing. They were washing their nets.
“Put out into the deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” The stranger on the shore, the Savior of the world, makes a request of a weary fisherman.
Expressing Thankfulness
August 27, 2025 by Carin LeRoy
Filed under Daily Devotions, Personal Growth
For months I had been doing medical work in a small tribe in Papua New Guinea. With the closest medical worker a day’s walk away, I found myself dressing sores, dispensing aspirin, and giving medicine and injections according to a missionary doctor’s orders. It was an exhausting and overwhelming task. Before 7 a.m. every day, people waited outside my door. I’d hear the soft chatter of those waiting while I started my day. Knowing little of the tribal language, I did my best to communicate, sticking with simple phrases.
Measuring Growth
August 25, 2025 by Gina Stinson
Filed under Daily Devotions, Family
Measuring growth is a big deal in our home. Since our daughter was born three months premature, we have always paid close attention to her growth patterns. With the addition of our almost full term son, it’s been amazing to see the difference three more months in the womb make, even after they are welcomed into the world.
New Every Morning
August 22, 2025 by Cynthia Ruchti
Filed under Daily Devotions, Humorous
It had been a long day, and it was only half over with no promise of an easier second half. Like a football team starting the third quarter down by 30 points, no half-time locker room pep talk could make me more optimistic about what the afternoon might offer.
Hidden but Known
August 20, 2025 by Cheri Cowell
Filed under Daily Devotions, Life Topics
Whatever is done in secret, the saying goes, will be shouted from the rooftops. During the recent corporate scandals, many found out that what they thought were hidden in boardrooms, conference rooms, and smoke-filled rooms on Wall Street, were not. Sure they rode the wave, until that wave came crashing in around them. Many of us have said, “They deserve whatever they get.” But if we are honest, we know we’ve done the same thing.