Driving into Iowa from Illinois on Interstate 80, you enter an area designated as Smokestacks and Silos National Heritage. Despite all the commercial buildings along…
View More Lessons from an Old BarnCategory: Friday Devotionals
Praying through a Psalm of Hope
I’m not sure when I began doing this, but I often find myself in town with a few minutes between appointments or before needing to…
View More Praying through a Psalm of HopeWhat Did You Expect?
Life rarely turns out the way we expect it to turn out. How often do we say, “It wasn’t supposed to be this way?” We…
View More What Did You Expect?Hope Celebrated at the Lord’s Supper
“For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” 1 Corinthians 11:26 It had…
View More Hope Celebrated at the Lord’s SupperWaves of Hope
If the heartache of 2020 was confined to a pandemic and civil unrest, things might be a little more manageable. But the craziness out there…
View More Waves of HopeBalance in the Christian Life
Ecclesiastics 1:9, “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” People…
View More Balance in the Christian LifeSharing the Hope I Have
We worship a holy God. He is perfect in every way and greater than anyone and everything else on the earth. He has no comparison.…
View More Sharing the Hope I HaveHoping in the All-Sufficient God
Scripture: “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or…
View More Hoping in the All-Sufficient GodHope in the Midst of a Hard Diagnosis
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that…
View More Hope in the Midst of a Hard DiagnosisNo Reservations Needed
Psalm 63:5-7: “My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, when I remember…
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