by Don Freeman | Jan 11, 2025 | Devotional
One of the advantages of being blissfully unaware of so many things is that every day is a revelation, sometimes of something momentous, sometimes of things of little consequence. Take for example, not long ago I was reading an article and happened to notice a detail...
by Don Freeman | Jan 9, 2025 | Devotional
If you’re going whitewater rafting, you want to be sure you have someone with you who is well experienced with the sport and can likely keep you from dying. If you’re going on an African safari, it helps to have a guide who knows the terrain and is not easily...
by Don Freeman | Jan 7, 2025 | Devotional
If I could suggest, instead of becoming the brunt of that tired joke about broken New Year’s resolutions, why not skip that in favor of a new awareness, a new or broader awareness of the immensity of our agency in Jesus? Our agency is described saying: ‘I have the...
by Don Freeman | Jan 4, 2025 | Devotional
Here’s one of my many thoughts in these first days of January. I think it’s cool enough to share (feel free to let me know what you think). You know how, in 1 Peter, he exhorts his readers to be “well balanced and always alert, because your enemy, the devil,...
by Don Freeman | Jan 2, 2025 | Devotional
Better than all the gifts under the tree, better than the new car with the huge red bow atop, sitting in the driveway on Christmas morning (who does that, anyway?). Better than the very best news possible, we are the recipients of the supreme gift, the assurance that...
by Don Freeman | Dec 31, 2024 | Devotional
The first time a new mom sees her baby, there is an instant ‘I already know you’ look that passes between them. The mother-child bond has been forged over nine months. The connection has now been completed. The first time a new dad sees his baby, something...
by Don Freeman | Dec 28, 2024 | Devotional
I was the kid who loved the start of the school year. New everything – books, supplies, teachers, subjects (some of which were enjoyed while others were . . .) By high school, the sense of community with other students was a great shaping factor of my life. There was...
by Don Freeman | Dec 26, 2024 | Devotional
Christmas began yesterday, (the first of twelve days leading up to Epiphany on January 6). And did you notice? All but essential services were closed. Parking lots empty, roadways all but vacant. Even the clamoring chaos of the stock exchange – silent. Jesus’...
by Don Freeman | Dec 24, 2024 | Devotional
Christmas Eve. The final 24 hours before Mary’s body was sent into labor to give birth to a startling, reality-confounding truth that would hold from that moment forevermore. Over 2,000 years ago and mankind has still to comprehend that truth, to receive it, to be...
by Don Freeman | Dec 21, 2024 | Devotional
A non-descript night, in a non-descript village, to a non-descript couple, in a non-descript building reserved for farm animals. No midwife, no light, only the shaking, awkward assistance of an overwhelmed fiancé. These were the preparations God had set in place for...
