by Donna Maley | Jul 28, 2021 | Devotionals, Sabbatical News
Mark 6:47-56 After the miracle where Jesus feeds the 5,000 with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, he sends his disciples ahead on a boat so that he may pray alone. A fierce storm makes rough water for the disciples. Jesus sees this and walks out on the lake past the boat,...
by Lori Disbennett | Jul 21, 2021 | Devotionals
Mark 4:35-41 We know the Bible Story of Jesus rebuking the Winds and the Sea. His disciples thought they were surely going to drown. They were filled with anxiety and despair. “Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to...
by Diane Crosthwaite | Jul 14, 2021 | Devotionals
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 30The apostles returned to Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. 31And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a lonely place, and rest awhile.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. 32And they...
by Dick Mickley | Jul 7, 2021 | Devotionals
Acts 10: 1-8, 17 1 In Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian Cohort, as it was called. 2He was a devout man who feared God with all his household; he gave alms generously to the people and prayed constantly to God. 3One afternoon at about...
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,...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | May 26, 2021 | Devotionals
Deuteronomy 4:25-31 “When you have had children and children’s children, and become complacent in the land…” (Deuteronomy 4:25) The Lord speaks to His people just on the wrong side of the Jordan – just as they’re about to cross onto the right side – and is...
