by Don Freeman | Sep 15, 2026 | Devotional
Can you imagine your diary/journal/blog entry (or some such) being read in the year 4026 and being read with enthusiasm and being a source of profound encouragement? Can you imagine people finding a publisher who immediately, because of word he’s heard on the street,...
by Don Freeman | Sep 12, 2026 | Devotional
Imagine this scenario: after the passing of a grandparent, the one with whom you were the closest, you get the surprising news that you’ve inherited a very special gift. It may be something like your grandmother’s ornate diamond necklace which she received as an...
by Amelia Avila | Sep 10, 2026 | Devotional
Part 2 – The Preparation Ephesians 5:25b-27 (NLT) He gave up his life for her, to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead,...
by Don Freeman | Sep 8, 2026 | Devotional
I confess that, apart from the growing collection of candles on my birthday cakes or the septuagenarian face in my mirror every morning, there exists inside, a kid blissfully ignorant of the weighty issues of the world. That youngster is sometimes still ill at ease...
by Don Freeman | Sep 5, 2026 | Devotional
When I hear that a famous person has died, a typical question I ask is, ‘How old was he/she?’ The answer, quickly gleaned from one of many techie sources, is the number of years he/she was alive. But I wonder, is that really how the full number of our days is...
by Amelia Avila | Sep 3, 2026 | Devotional
Part One — The Proposal One of my most cherished memories happened on the evening of January 20, 1979. Horace Avila had been courting me and had asked me out to a “special dinner.” Suspecting that a proposal might be coming, I was terrified and did what any mature...
