by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Sep 23, 2020 | Devotionals
Acts 19:1-10 “He entered the synagogue and for three months spoke out boldly, and argued persuasively about the kingdom of God. When some stubbornly refused to believe and spoke evil of the Way before the congregation, he left them, taking the disciples with him, and...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Sep 16, 2020 | Devotionals
Acts 16:16-24 “One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling…. She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Sep 9, 2020 | Devotionals
Job 29:1, 30:1-2, 16-31 “Surely one does not turn against the needy, when in disaster they cry for help. Did I not weep for those whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Sep 2, 2020 | Devotionals
John 8:47-59 “Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.’ So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple” (John 8:58-59) Can you imagine that church service!?! Note the setting for this showdown...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Aug 26, 2020 | Devotionals
John 7:1-13 “The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil” (John 7:7) Every time I hear language like “Christian nation” and even “God bless America,” I’m reminded of these words from our Lord: “The world… hates me.”...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Aug 19, 2020 | Devotionals
Psalm 4 “When you are disturbed, do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent” (Psalm 4:4) If I’ve achieved any major growth as both a human and a disciple of Jesus Christ over the last five years, it’s been in learning to talk to myself about what is happening...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Aug 12, 2020 | Devotionals
John 4:1-26 “The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming’ (who is called Christ). ‘When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I am he, the one who is speaking to you’” (John 4:25-26) The first half of John’s Gospel is structured...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Aug 5, 2020 | Devotionals
Psalm 132 “O LORD, remember in David’s favor all the hardships he endured; how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, “I will not enter my house or get into my bed; I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, until I find a...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Jul 29, 2020 | Devotionals
Judges 3:12-30 “Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon’s belly; the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the dirt...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Jul 22, 2020 | Devotionals
Joshua 8:30-35 “Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, “an altar of unhewn stones, on which no iron tool has...
