by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Nov 3, 2021 | Devotionals
Nehemiah 13:4-22 “In those days I saw in Judah people treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys; and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day; and I...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Oct 27, 2021 | Devotionals
Lamentations 2:8-15 Revelation 5:1-10 The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of daughter Zion; he stretched the line; he did not withhold his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languish together… All who pass along the way clap...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Oct 20, 2021 | Devotionals
1 Corinthians 15:51-58 Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Oct 13, 2021 | Devotionals
Jeremiah 37:3-21 “Now Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison. 5Meanwhile, the army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they withdrew from...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Oct 6, 2021 | Devotionals
2 Kings 22:14-23:3 “Then the king directed that all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem should be gathered to him. The king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him went all the people of Judah, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the prophets, and all...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Jun 30, 2021 | Devotionals
1 Samuel 12:1-25 “Here I am…” (1 Samuel 12:3) For those familiar with the story of the prophet Samuel – who read his own nativity story in the opening chapters of 1 Samuel – you will know that this refrain – “Here I am” – is significant. It is the refrain that...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Jun 23, 2021 | Devotionals
1 Samuel 7:2-17 “From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD” (1 Samuel 7:2) Biblical time is often confusing. At times we hear of people living well into their...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Jun 16, 2021 | Devotionals
Luke 20:27-40 It is rare that a passage from a previous Sunday’s sermon pops back up for this midweek devotion, but such is our good fortune this week. Luke 20:27-40 tells of Jesus’ interaction with the Sadducees; the one in which they challenge Jesus using Levirate...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Jun 9, 2021 | Devotionals, Sabbatical News
2 Corinthians 11:21b-33 “And, besides other things, I am under daily pressure because of my anxiety for all the churches” (2 Corinthians 11:28) Paul was clearly a pastor. Obviously, he was more than a pastor. A missionary, an apostle, prophetic in his writings, but he...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Jun 2, 2021 | Devotionals
Luke 17:20-37 “Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he answered, ‘The kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed; nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ For, in fact,...
