Wrinkled Music
July 14, 2025 by Cynthia Ruchti
Filed under Daily Devotions, Worship
The young man scuffed the toes of his laceless shoes. He stared at the twelve-inch squares of linoleum on the floor of the music department’s practice room.
“Yeah, I’m not what you’d call prepared for today’s lesson.”
Cross Your Heart
July 3, 2025 by Cheri Cowell
Filed under Daily Devotions, Worship
“Cross your heart?” my friends and I would ask each other after making a promise. Somehow saying cross my heart was enough to ensure the validity of the promise. If the promise was broken we would decry, “But you crossed your heart!”
God’s Billboard Company
June 22, 2025 by Cheri Cowell
Filed under Daily Devotions, Worship
I love to read billboards. Of course, there are some vulgar and inappropriate things on some and I have to quickly avert my eyes. But for the most part, I find a lot to think about on these giant-sized commercials.
Where’s the Power?
June 11, 2025 by Gina Stinson
Filed under Daily Devotions, Worship
Do you ever wonder where your spiritual power is? Of course it’s in Christ…but I mean…do you ever feel like you’ve misplaced it with your keys and then you search and search…until you find it’s been there all along?
Emergency
June 2, 2025 by Cynthia Ruchti
Filed under Daily Devotions, Worship
I did it again yesterday. I booted up my computer before I did anything else. Before breakfast. Before getting dressed. Before brushing my teeth.
Opening my email inbox came before everything else, including time alone with the Lord.
It’s not that I didn’t want to spend time with Him. It’s that I felt compelled to see if there were any emergencies that needed my attention. Did my kids/mother/friends/church family/ministry/business/volunteer responsibilities need me?
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