October 2022

Daily Devotional for Monday, October 31 Samson’s Parents There are cultures in the world where who you become in life is determined by your birth lineage. What we might call the class system is alive and well in many places. In many cultures, one born into a certain social class will be forever stuck in […]

Daily Devotional for Sunday, October 30 The Victory of Faith My wife’s favorite hymn is Victory in Jesus. The hymnist writes, “He loved me ere, I knew him and all my love is due him, He plunged me to victory, beneath the cleansing flood.” The Hebrews’ writer hints of this same phenomena when he asserts,

Daily Devotional for Saturday, October 29 Our True Source of Strength Many Christians have uttered the phrase, “God will never put on you more than you can handle.” If this were true, we would have no need to trust God or to seek Him as our help and shield. King David certainly faced more than

Daily Devotional for Friday, October 28  Faith Cometh by Hearing The primary method for learning among people is by the spoken word. Of course, we all learn best in different ways. Some are tactile learners and these learn better by doing. Some are visual learners, who learn best by seeing a teaching performed. In the

Daily Devotional for Thursday, October 27  Walking After the Flesh She pulled him out of the puddle yet again and this time she was not letting go. Little Joe was a bundle of energy, always on the go with only one speed. Usually that speed was toward the dirt, mud, grease or whatever might ruin

Daily Devotional for Wednesday, October 26  The Emptiness of Idolatry The question has been asked, “What other gods could we have besides the Lord?” The answer to that question is plenty. Israel had turned to the gods of the Canaanites. They worshiped Baal whose worship included a rampage of gluttony, drunkenness and ritual prostitution. Today,

Daily Devotional for Tuesday, October 25  No Idolators! Cancer claims the lives of many people each year. Despite advances in medicine, these diseases still claim many lives. One method, however, remains a standard for treatment of most cancers and that is to remove the cancerous cells and any mass from one’s body. The cancer must

Daily Devotional for Monday, October 24  Good Intentions Are Not Enough Following God’s leadership, Gideon had taken three hundred men out of thirty-two thousand and won a great victory. Gideon and the Israelites never wanted to forget God’s great victory.  The people had asked him, after the battle, to rule over them. “Then the men

Daily Devotional for Sunday, October 23  The Final Victory In 1988, Kirk Gibson crushed a two-run home run to win game one of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers would go on to beat the Oakland A’s in the World Series. Most sports fans remember the home run and Gibson’s limping