Dear Devotional Reader,
I am grateful for your regular visits and your kind words in reaction to our daily attempt to lift our minds and hearts to the real purpose of our human existence – true communion with our Loving God.
It is not the purpose of our work to be political or to delve…
Fr. Barnabas Powell
What if, no matter how hard you tried, even your best ideas and best efforts worked against you? Imagine the frustration when even your most well thought out plans ended up helping the very one you were trying to defeat! And this doesn’t just happen sometimes, it happens all the time, and the best you…
In the mid 70’s the late Robin Williams did a whole comedy routine entitled “Reality, What A Concept.” The show was about the funny side of actually dealing with life like it really is, AND how hilariously ridiculous the lengths humans will go to AVOID reality.
Turns out these funny observations aren’t new at all.…
…for the Bible tells me so.
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When I was a boy, my little brother and I would sometimes sneak around the house before our parents woke up on a Saturday morning. One Saturday, before the sun was up, my brother and I decided we could get our own breakfast, pour our own milk, and generally do what we wanted without any…
The ancients kept the stories of their past alive through storytelling and through communal memory. It was just expected that a young person would memorize the tales of the tribe so that he could pass on this communal memory to the next generation. Now don’t laugh, but when I think of this, I think of…
I suppose the whole world couldn’t contain the poems, stories, and memories we children collect about our mothers. I know I owe much of my good qualities to the brave lady who raised me and my little brother. And the one quality I always remember is that, no matter what was going on in my…
Today we hear a familiar passage from John 3:16. We know it by heart.
But have you contemplated the depth if the theology if this simple scripture? God loves!
God loves Deliberately.
God loves Honestly.
God loves at Great Cost.
God loves you in all these ways and, today, His love Demands a response!
Well?