by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Dec 18, 2019 | Devotionals
Revelation 12:1-10 “A great portent appeared in heaven…” (Revelation 12:1) I once visited an art installation at the Cleveland Museum of Art that was an “auditory experience.” Something like 120 speakers were set up in a circle and they were playing a Gregorian chant....
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Dec 11, 2019 | Devotionals
Revelation 1:17-2:7 “I also know that you are enduring patiently and bearing up for the sake of my name, and that you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember then from what you have fallen; repent,...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Dec 4, 2019 | Devotionals
2 Peter 3:1-10 “First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts and saying, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died, all things continue as they were from the...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Nov 27, 2019 | Devotionals
1 Peter 2:1-10 “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” (1 Peter 2:9) If you’ve paid attention to my preaching over...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Nov 20, 2019 | Devotionals
Ezra 10:1-17 “Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra, saying, ‘We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. So now let us make a...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Nov 13, 2019 | Devotionals
Revelation 18:21-24 “Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “With such violence Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and will be found no more” (Revelation 18:21) I’ll confess that I never know what...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Nov 6, 2019 | Devotionals
Matthew 13:53-58 “And he did not do many deeds of power there, because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:58) A prophet is not accepted in his hometown is just another way of expressing the old adage that “familiarity breeds contempt.” It is a reminder that one of the...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Oct 30, 2019 | Devotionals
Revelation 5:1-10 “Then I saw between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders a Lamb standing as if it had been slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes” (Revelation 5:6) On Halloween Eve, I cannot imagine a more frightening image from the...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Oct 23, 2019 | Devotionals
Psalm 125 “Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.” ~Psalm 125:1 “Trust” and “faith” are functionally the same thing throughout scripture. We may, in our times, delineate the two, but not typically to our benefit....
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Oct 16, 2019 | Devotionals
Matthew 10:24-33 “Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.” (Matthew 10:32-33) Every week, you are asked to stand up in...
