Thank you Barb Gerhart for providing our devotional blog this week while Pastor Steve is away! Ping! Beep! Buzz… Trill! Pulse… Chime… Chirps (like that Star Wars droid). Whah-whah-whah! That annoying alarm when you want to sleep just…five…more…minutes! How much of your day is programmed by these noises? Life is filled with these audio cues, each one alerting us to a task or need that requires attention. They tell us to wake up, buckle your seat belt, shut the car…
Pastor Isaac recommended this one because it goes so well with our series on Jonah! Thank you Casey Bralla for sharing! “Whooped Upside the Head” One of my favorite Bible verses is Proverbs 16:9: “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.” As a stubborn engineer, and a late-in-life convert to Christianity, I’ve often needed God to “whoop me upside the head” to make His presence and desires known to me. This is the…
Finding Faith in 57 Days of Uncertainty “But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.” Psalm 13:5 It was very early on Sunday, February 22, when I was aroused out of a sound sleep by a quiet “ding” on my phone. Opening my phone at 5:32 a.m., caller ID told me it was the hospital. My stomach sank. This could not be good news. The doctor identified himself as one of the cardiologists on my…
(Thank you Miki Clouser for our devotional this week!) I have been listening through the Bible in a year, but somewhere around June I got off track and was struggling to catch up. I attended a birthday party in West Virginia early in July, so on the 400-mile drive home I planned to marathon it. I started listening at the end of Solomon’s reign where God sends a prophet to Jeroboam with this message, “…Solomon has forsaken me and worships…