by Don Freeman | Feb 7, 2023 | Devotional
In Bible School, it was strongly recommended (read: mandated) that each student have ‘morning devotionals,’ which were meant as ‘daily time with God.’ This was presented as a universal requirement for all serious, committed Christians. Unfortunately, student life...
by Don Freeman | Feb 4, 2023 | Devotional
Maybe it’s a sunset. Maybe it’s seeing a Humpback whale breaching alongside your tour boat. Maybe it’s the initial sight of a newborn baby. Maybe it’s an unexpected pair of tickets to that game. Maybe it’s the view from a mountain peak after an arduous ascent. Maybe...
by Don Freeman | Feb 2, 2023 | Devotional
On a recent flight taking off from a snowy Calgary, Alberta, Canada, our airplane climbed to a staggering 35,000 feet – over 6.6 miles above the earth! Well above the snow-laden clouds, observing uninterrupted, pristine blue sky, it seemed impossible to go any...
by Don Freeman | Jan 31, 2023 | Devotional
I have come to give you everything in abundance, more than you expect, life in its fullness until you overflow! John 10:10 Passion Translation If anything is true of the believer in Jesus, it is that the in-Christ life is one of profound mystery. Not mystery like the...
by Don Freeman | Jan 28, 2023 | Devotional
There was a liar. Then, a cheat, an adulterer, a foreigner, a prostitute, a rebel, a blasphemer, a braggart . . . This is the line-up of Jesus’ ancestors. A motley bunch to say the least! More, these sparkling examples of society’s finest were God-seen, God-loved,...
by Don Freeman | Jan 26, 2023 | Devotional
I felt it was a bit over-dramatic the first few times I heard it. At the beginning of my time inFrance, in response to some comment I would make, a French person would reply withsomething like, “You don’t understand. We bear the centuries-old weight of our people.”...
