Archive | Devotionals

For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved dogs. For most of my life, I’ve owned and cared for one, but I’ve never expected one of mine ever to do anything heroic. And, they haven’t, except to put up with me and try to please me, even when I’ve been hard to please. In […]

The 2008 Olympics in Beijing certainly illustrated “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” as well as any competition, perhaps better. Even those who were not usually sports fans watched and cheered for their country’s athletes, but there were two events that were especially hard for USA fans to watch. In the men’s […]

The words of this title are in bold on the back cover of a 2007 book by Michael P. Schutt. I agree with them. Do you? I’ve often referred to CTLA as “a support network for those who are swimming upstream.” On the front cover, the title is Redeeming Law, and the subtitle, Christian Calling and […]

I was among those who received an email message asking me to pray for the outstanding Christian author Philip Yancey. He was in a serious auto accident on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007, in New Mexico. Driving home to Denver after speaking in Los Alamos, his Ford Explorer rolled several times when he entered a curve with too much […]

In November 2007, Finley Crampton was born a healthy boy in London, 3 weeks premature, at 6 lb. 3 oz. Nothing too unusual about that, until you hear the odds he beat. His mother Jodie decided to abort him at 8 weeks because she carries a gene which triggers multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK) which is […]

McKay Hatch, 14, said, “I’ve cussed before; I’m not going to lie to you, but I try not to cuss any more.” He understands why his friends use foul language. “They just want to fit in like everybody else and they don’t know how. They figure if they cuss maybe it’s an easy way to […]

Mladen Jovanovic is my friend who preaches for a church in Zagreb, Croatia, which was a center for benevolent work during the years of conflict between Serbians and Croatians. They resolved not to throw food to people out of the back of trucks, but to interview each recipient and listen carefully to each story. They […]

What do you do when you don’t like the way things are going? If you’re in charge, you may be able to make a change, but what if you’re not in charge? What if the situation is totally out of your hands, as it often is? Eder Rojas, 19, was a flight attendant for Compass […]

Walter Houston was a devoted Christian who died at age 91. He had been waiting on the Lord to give him clear direction about what to do with his life for 70 years. His wife in Tupelo, Mississippi, said, “He hung around the house and prayed a lot, but just never got that confirmation. Sometimes […]