Four Minute Devotions

When the prophet Samuel was commissioned by the Lord to find and anoint a new king for Israel, he was sent to Jesse of Bethlehem.…

 Malachi is the last book of the Old Testament and the last of a long line of prophets speaking to Israel and Judah between about…

George Müller once said, “I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day,…

In Exodus 25: 1 – 8, “The Lord said to Moses, “tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering…

“For thirty-eight years, the Israelites wandered slowly in the wilderness. The Bible doesn’t talk a lot about it—a few verses in Deuteronomy and five chapters…

After Paul and Barnabas had returned from their first missionary journey, they rested in Antioch for a while until some unexpected visitors showed up. ‘Men…

In a psalm often sung before Passover meals, the author of Psalm 114 reminds us of the Israelites’ rescue from Egyptian bondage, God’s victory over…

Righteousness is not the same as self-righteousness.  A person under the Old Covenant (before Christ) would have understood righteousness to mean a godliness that reflects the…

Wisdom is not the same as knowledge. We know that. You can have an encyclopedic brain the size of a planet but still fail to…

“Ascribe” is not a word we hear much in day-to-day life. It doesn’t come up much in the news feeds and I don’t hear it…

The world is changing. For me, as a 60-plus-year-old looking back, the evolution of technology in the last 40 years has been breathtaking. The re-defining…

I believe in a 6-day creation. There! I said it. Some of you are now feeling sorry for me, wondering when I’ll find my missing…