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  • Being Happy

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    Being Happy – Devotions for 5-29-25 Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”             “Just do what makes you happy.” Or “I just want my…

  • Rest

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    Rest – Devotions for 5-21-25 Genesis 2:3 “So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all His work that He had done in creation.”             Rest is important. In the beginning God called the people of Israel to rest, to have a “sabbath” rest, a day of…

  • Remove the Stone

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    Remove the stone – Devotions for 5-14-25  John 11:39 “Jesus said, ‘Take away the stone.’…” The stone was blocking the way. The story in John 11 is that of Lazarus in the tomb. He had died and was buried in a tomb and “a stone was lying against it.” When they put his body in…

  • Mother’s Day

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    Behold You Mother – Devotions for 5-7-25 John 19:27 “Then He said to His disciple, ‘Behold your mother.’”             Mother’s Day is this Sunday. We all have mothers, or at least since we were all born, we had a mother. I have a mom; she lives in Minnesota with my sister and nephew. I try…

  • Fish Dinner

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    Fish Dinner – Devotions for 4-30-25 Luke 24:42 “They gave Him a piece of broiled fish, and He took it and ate before them.”             I grew up at a fishing resort in Minnesota. My parents bought it when I was a teenager, but before that we lived on the shore of a different lake.…

  • Going Fishing

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    Going Fishing – Devotions for 4-23-25 John 21:3 “Simon Peter said to them, ‘I am going fishing’. They said to him, ‘We will go with you.’”             People who know me know that I like to go fishing. I love to go after fish of almost any kind in any place. That happens when you…

  • Clean Feet

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    Clean Feet – Devotions for 4-16-25 John 13:8 “…If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”             One of the most interesting things Jesus did during His time with His disciples during Holy Week, His last week on earth, was to wash His disciple’s feet.             The setting was their Passover…

  • Increase my Faith

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    Increase Our Faith – Devotions for 4-9-25 Luke 17:5 “The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our Faith!”             We often hear Jesus in the Gospels say things like, “Oh ye of little faith.” Jesus said things like that to His disciples. Faith was important to Jesus; He talked about faith a lot. Faith is…

  • The Measure of My Days

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    The Measure of My Days – Devotions for 4-2-25 Psalm 39:4 “O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am.”             I had a friend whose wife died suddenly in a car accident. It came out of the blue on an icy…

  • An Outsider?

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    An Outsider? – Devotions for 3-26-25 Luke 7:3 “When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant.”             All people have insider groups and outsider groups. We have people like us who we like to be with and then there are people…