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John Wesley was at sea, both literally and figuratively. He was returning from Georgia, the ship sailing under the lee of Ireland making...

Susanna Wesley nurtured the sense that God had a mission for John. Step by step John developed a disciple’s understanding that there was...

I said last week that the church needs constant revival and renewal. When a generation adopts their father’s and mother’s renewal,...

How did the German Evangelical Church get so off track? They fell prey to the Devil’s trap as illustrated in Jesus’ temptations in the...

What did Bonhoeffer see as the consequences of ‘cheap grace’?   “We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale, we baptized, confirmed,...

Tis the season…for sales and deals, half-offs and BOGOs. We all like to find a bargain or get something we have been wanting for 25% off....

We marvel at the transformation of a butterfly, at least I do. An adult female butterfly carefully lays eggs on a particular plant. For...

God sent Jesus to pay the penalty for sin and offer us forgiveness…for a purpose. The reason is that sinning destroys our relationship...

Remember when Mr. Miyagi told his karate student Daniel to wax his car. The master gave minimal instructions but insisted on a certain...

We have established, whether you realize it or not, that there are two deaths involved in God’s plan of salvation and the restoration of...

Today begins a new series of devotionals about who we are as people of God. We who have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior and have...

The Book of Proverbs offers many lessons, though some are not easy to discern. The proverbs are a compilation of folk sayings and wisdom...

This passage draws to a close the Book of Proverbs which is about human wisdom, such as it is, and God’s wisdom. The book began with a...

We are in the midst of the last chapter of Proverbs. While Proverbs has seemed ‘male-oriented’, this chapter is not. First, it is the...

We have established that this chapter contains the wisdom of a woman, a mother of a king. We have also established that this whole...

The rest of this chapter, from verse 10 through 31, is frequently read and cited, and for that reason it seems important to both Jews and...

Throughout these devotionals from Proverbs, right up to this last chapter in the book, a recurrent theme has been the difficulty we have...

Agur, whoever he is, has properly and humbly introduced himself as wise only because God has given him a gift. God has given him some...

I have been trying to get at least two devotionals out of every chapter, three out of some. That means, though, that I have left many...

Last week’s devotional was based on one verse, 29:18.  “ Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint.”   We saw that this...