by Don Freeman | May 28, 2022 | Devotional
(as I see it) After three sweet, thrilling, terrifying, wondrous, life-transforming, years of sharing life and ministry with Jesus, three days have now passed, three very long days emptied of his presence, his teachings, his encouragements, his friendship, his love....
by Don Freeman | May 26, 2022 | Devotional
This is it! Day 40 of 40. The time has arrived for Jesus to leave. Everything is set. The Father is waiting. The disciples are unaware that these are the final moments they get to spend with Jesus. Or, maybe they suspect something’s up and that’s why they are coming...
by Don Freeman | May 24, 2022 | Devotional
We all had subjects in school that were easy for us, classes that were even fun to attend because they were so suited to our strengths. We knew we had this. Our brains were just hard-wired to understand the material at first glance. We were even eager for the next...
by Don Freeman | May 21, 2022 | Devotional
We may hear someone say: ‘that’s icing on the cake,’ meaning something unexpectedly beneficial/providential/pleasant has come their way. We might say, when something unexpectedly negative/ominous/disagreeable has just occurred: ‘wouldn’t that peel the icing right off...
by Don Freeman | May 19, 2022 | Devotional
Thinking for a moment, can you remember a season in your life when you were stressed: with a set of demands exceeding what you considered to be your limits; or maybe overwhelming financial challenges whether of your making or imposed on you; a long, drawn-out personal...
by Don Freeman | May 17, 2022 | Devotional
When Election Year rolls around in countries around the world, heavily politicized cultures begin to spasm, churn, and prognosticate about the eventual outcome and what it will mean. Extreme views run rampant. The vilifying of opponents is commonplace. Doomsday...
by Don Freeman | May 14, 2022 | Devotional
‘Context’: the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs: environment, setting. We all live within a context, and we know those conditions and their interrelatedness as they pertain to our daily lives. We don’t consciously think about them. They are...
by Don Freeman | May 12, 2022 | Devotional
Think about this! While we were wasting our lives in sin, God revealed his powerful love to us in a tangible display -the Anointed One died for us.’ That’s how the VOICE translates Romans 5:8. (the MESSAGE says ‘when we were of no use whatever to Him’). So, regardless...
by Don Freeman | May 10, 2022 | Devotional
In this space, in the past, I know I have more than once harangued about the ills, etc. of computer technology and its ‘advances’, but this, today, is a rare gift for all you techie aficionados. I concede that some features found in our hi-tech world are, well,...
by Don Freeman | May 7, 2022 | Devotional
“…you need to be aware that in the final days the culture of society will become extremely fierce. People will be self-centered lovers of themselves and obsessed with money. They will boast of great things as they strut around in their arrogant pride and mock all that...
