Knowing is Loving: Day 4

Psalm 119 Devotional 22 Days: Knowing is Loving Day 4 (Daleth – verses 25-32)   My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word. I have told of my ways, and you have answered me; Teach me Your statutes. Make me understand the way of Your precepts, …

Knowing is Loving: Day 3

Psalm 119 Devotional 22 Days: Knowing is Loving Day 3 (Gimel – verses 17-24)   Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word. Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things from Your law. I am a stranger in the earth; do not hide …

Knowing is Loving: Day 2

Psalm 119 Devotional 22 Days: Knowing is Loving Day 2 (Beth – verses 9-16)   How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word. With all my heart I have sought You; Do not let me wander from Your commandments. Your word I …

Knowing is Loving: Day 1

Psalm 119 Devotional 22 Days: Knowing is Loving Day 1 (Aleph – verses 1-8)   How blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. How blessed are those who observe His testimonies, who seek Him with all their heart. They also do no …

Knowing is Loving: Introduction

Psalm 119 Devotional 22 Days: Knowing is Loving   Welcome to “Knowing is Loving,” a twenty-two-day devotional that will seek to bring you closer to God through a focus on His word, as we journey through Psalm 119 together. I began this journey back in the spring of 2019 as …

A Journey – part 1

  How about this for an eclectic list of words: justice, mission, change, growth, heart, and evangelism? Now, let us take some Scripture and add it into the mix. “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the …

A Fun Question to Ask

Have you ever used the expression, “So, what?” Maybe you are thinking that you have never used it out loud or with those exact words, but I would think that in some form or another all of us have thought it, said it, or acted in a way that brings …

No Hard Hearts

Do the words of Jesus challenge us in our lives and in our faith growth? Today I spent time studying through Mark, chapters six through eight. I was thinking in particular about Mark 6:37-38. Jesus made two statements in these verses, the first being, “You give them something to eat!” …

Nope, Not Me

Have you ever said, “Evangelism is for somebody else to do?” Hopefully you never have said that and if you did it was done in your “inside voice.” Because saying that statement is antithetical to what God’s Word tells us. Just so that all of us can be on the …

Adoration

I think that most of us remember the Advent calendars of our youth. My parents would put it up on the door of the refrigerator about a week before the start of Advent and then my sister and I would wait for that first morning to run down and open …