Jim Dunn |
April 1, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
It was the Lord our God himself who brought us and our parents up out of Egypt . . . and performed those great signs. (Josh. 24:17) God did miraculous things through the denominational youth conventions I was privileged to lead for over twenty-five years. We depended...
Jim Dunn |
March 31, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. (Josh. 24:15) Burger King used to have a ditty on their commercials that belted out, “Have it your way!” What if God’s “ditty”...
Jim Dunn |
March 30, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. (Josh. 24:14) When you hear the phrase, “fear the Lord,” do you have thoughts wondering what God is going to do to you? What does it actually mean to “fear the Lord and serve him”? When...
Elizabeth Rhyno |
March 29, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. (Ps. 32:7) I remember certain moments of sheer panic as the wind rattled around and battered the humble rafters of our summer cottage. Those blacker-than-black nights...
Elizabeth Rhyno |
March 28, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever. (Josh. 14:9) Their cheeks were pink as they climbed the last hill. Grandfather and grandson had explored all day. The valleys and streams, woods and bogs each held...
Elizabeth Rhyno |
March 27, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
Then the land had rest from war. (Josh. 14:15) Was it ever going to end? It was almost as if the paperwork taunted her tattered heart with her new reality. Her marriage was ending. It wasn’t what she wanted, and it wasn’t what she had been fighting so...
Elizabeth Rhyno |
March 26, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
“But, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.” (Josh. 14:12) Somehow it made sense to us back then. We weren’t sure who had made up the rules, but “The Game” always seemed to be full of intrigue and ripe for...
Elizabeth Rhyno |
March 25, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. (Josh. 14:11) His kitchen table had been training ground ever since his wife had died so young. His broken heart had fueled his pursuit of the Healer. To raise his boys, he needed wisdom and strength....
Elizabeth Rhyno |
March 24, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly. (Josh. 15:8) I had a choice to make about this fearsome giant. What was I going to do with it? My little girl was newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and realities of constant monitoring, endless blood checks, and...
Elizabeth Rhyno |
March 23, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
So the Israelites divided the land, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. (Josh. 14:5) They noticed the little girl seemed to stay in one place. She was quiet as she looked around her new room. They weren’t sure what that day would be like as their daughter...
Devon Smith |
March 22, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
Lord my God, I will praise you forever. (Ps. 30:12) Abraham Lincoln liked to tell a story about a proud farmer who lived in a house that had been passed down to him through several generations. A 130-year-old oak tree sat on the property and provided both shade and...
Devon Smith |
March 21, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
Then the Lord turned from his fierce anger. (Josh. 7:26) The full history of the world is really a story of redemption. God seeks after mankind, but does so without compromising his holy character. God is not capricious and given to sudden outbursts of anger. Nor does...
Devon Smith |
March 20, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
Achan replied, “It is true! I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel. This is what I have done.” (Josh. 7:20) Shortly after Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ, came out in theaters, the media started to report shocking stories...
Devon Smith |
March 19, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
Tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me. (Josh. 7:19) I remember it like it was yesterday. My mom’s piercing glare burned straight through my eight-year-old soul and called out for an immediate confession. Although I was way too young to understand...
Devon Smith |
March 18, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to destruction. (Josh. 7:12) I had had enough! My oldest son was not listening to me, and I was quickly losing my patience with him. I looked at him and very sternly said, “Son, if...
Devon Smith |
March 17, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
Stand up! What are you doing down on your face? (Josh. 7:10) A young man who had been terminally diagnosed with cancer showed up for his usual treatment and was met by a new doctor who casually and cruelly said to him, “You know, don’t you, that you are...
Devon Smith |
March 16, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
They chased the Israelites from the city gate as far as the stone quarries and struck them down on the slopes. (Josh. 7:5) Clearly the Israelite soldiers thought that they had this fight in the bag when Joshua sent them from Jericho to conquer the city of Ai. Not only...
Ann Shadduck |
March 15, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace. (Ps. 29:11) One of the co-teachers of my adult Sunday school class challenged us to give our problems to God—just like that—give them to God! I was too shy in my young adult...
Ann Shadduck |
March 14, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of you. (Josh. 3:11) My husband, Cliff, learned he had metastatic cancer that included several lesions on his brain. The doctors kept asking whether he had experienced any...
Ann Shadduck |
March 13, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
Each of you is to take up a stone . . . to serve as a sign among you. (Josh. 4:5–6) The monuments in Washington DC are tributes to some of this nation’s Founding Fathers. They remind us, among other things, that America was indeed founded on Christian...
Ann Shadduck |
March 12, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground. (Josh. 3:17) A phone call from my doctor’s nurse informed me that a pretest revealed I had several small intestinal ulcers, possibly caused...
Ann Shadduck |
March 11, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
And as soon as the priests . . . set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off. (Josh. 3:13) When I go on a road trip, I generally use my GPS. She usually steers me well, if I follow her directions exactly. If I don’t, I mess up! Oh, I...
Ann Shadduck |
March 10, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
Joshua said to the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God.” (Josh. 3:9) My first fourth-grade report card, let’s just say, left much to be desired! When Dad got home from work, he looked at it and told me to come to...
Ann Shadduck |
March 9, 2020 |
Daily Devotionals
Joshua said to the priests, “Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they took it up. (Josh. 3:6) Our church campgrounds are composed mostly of rocks and exposed tree roots, with a little dirt here and there. My new knee...
