by Don Freeman | Mar 29, 2025 | Devotional
When I was ten years old, I was taken to an Optometrist. I don’t know if my parents described what that was, or why, exactly, I was visiting that place. (Isn’t it surprising how many things are like that for kids, just being taken here and there because we’re told...
by Don Freeman | Mar 27, 2025 | Devotional
Picture, with me, the twelve men sent by Jesus to buy lunch – in a Samaritan village – from real-life Samaritans! This was a first for all of them, an unpleasant first, even a dreaded first. Their whole lives they had learned to avoid all dealings with this...
by Don Freeman | Mar 25, 2025 | Devotional
When people have decided they want nothing to do with Jesus, they search the spectrum of possible reasons, most of them pointing away from themselves and finding some fault in him to justify their rejection. In that regard, several have pinned the label ‘iconoclast’...
by Don Freeman | Mar 22, 2025 | Devotional
This past week I had the unique privilege of being in a meeting of pastors, specifically, a Lutheran, an Episcopalian, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, and me. The meeting began with a discussion centered around donuts which had been purchased for the gathering. Somehow,...
by Don Freeman | Mar 20, 2025 | Devotional
It’s every day. We have thoughts and attitudes, words and actions. Many, we assume, are so benign as to have little or no importance. But what if God opened our ‘ledger’ and showed us what really transpired as a result of our decisions? The people impacted, our...
