Thursday, January 23, 2025

A Joyful Noise: Praise for the Pastor

When the Apostle Paul wrote to his protégé, Timothy, he told him to count those who “labor in word and doctrine” worthy...

Time For a Devotional Break: Exiled, Not Homeless

Anyone watching the news this week could not avoid photos and videos depicting horrific scenes of war. Following the initial devastation were...

A Joyful Noise: Gasping for Grace

In his first epistle to Timothy, Paul encourages him to show rather brutal grace. Officially, the veteran evangelist identifies...

A Joyful Noise: The Anguish of Anger

I pity a person I’ve never met. I don’t know his—or her—real name; he or she uses the name...

A Joyful Noise: A Legacy Worth Leaving

As a child, Corrie Ten Boom went with her mother to visit a woman who had just lost her baby, and the...

Time to Take a Devotional Break: Taking God at His Word

My father was a man of his word and a man of God’s Word. If dad made a promise, he kept it....

A Joyful Noise: A Time to Teach

Jose Gavarrete wanted to wince when the young man at the bar stuck a cigarette in the small hole left in his...

Time to Take a Devotional Break: What Do You Need?

If you’ve ever learned a new skill, you’ve no doubt experienced the confusion and mistakes made during the acquisition stage.

A Joyful Noise: Perfect Perspective

On Jan. 6, 2021, Mom started dying. Covid had assaulted her lungs for about 10 days, and finally, pneumonia...

Time for a Devotional Break: In Case of Fire, Break Glass

Most of us have seen those glass-covered, bright red fire warning and supply boxes. We recognize them as necessary for serious emergencies...