by Don Freeman | May 22, 2025 | Devotional
Just like for the disciples, it’s easy for us to hear Jesus’ words and attempt to fit them into our current understanding. Or even to skew his words to make them less challenging. But if we are to be his disciples in our Jerusalem, our Judea, our Samaria, and to the...
by Don Freeman | May 20, 2025 | Devotional
In the sublime innocence of the Garden, Adam and Eve passed their days in abundant living, lacking nothing, basking in direct, unimpeded relationship with God Himself. In short, in exquisite alignment with God’s Plan ‘A.’ When Eve encountered this alien thing called...
by Don Freeman | May 17, 2025 | Devotional
For the next few months there will be a series of achievements ceremonies, each of which will simultaneously introduce a time of major change: high school and college graduations, weddings, and retirements. Each of these is eagerly anticipated as an ending: to...
by Don Freeman | May 15, 2025 | Devotional
Little children live in a world of wide-eyed wonder, filled with the discovery of colors and textures and sounds and tastes. They are carefree, with just two momentary troubles: their tummies and their diapers, the first, when it’s empty and the second when it’s full....
by Don Freeman | May 13, 2025 | Devotional
More than once, Jesus talked about having eyes and ears. I’m reflecting on that expression because what he was recommending was, if one has eyes to see and ears to hear then he should see and hear. I know what you’re thinking, That’s a brilliant...
by Don Freeman | May 10, 2025 | Devotional
Ignominious, that’s what it was. Jesus’ death, that is – despicable, humiliating, disgraceful, shameful, degrading, dishonorable. And the disciples watched it all like a waking nightmare in a type of paralyzed horror beyond anything they’d ever experienced. But...
by Don Freeman | May 8, 2025 | Devotional
Think with me, putting ourselves in the place of the disciples. Jesus, the last they had seen him, hanging on the cross, beaten unrecognizable, just barely alive. He died and was quickly buried in a tomb belonging to Joseph of Arimathea. Then, three days later, his...
by Don Freeman | May 6, 2025 | Devotional
We do it for the long term. Things like education (internship, college, university), healthcare (going to the dentist, for example), saving money/paying our tithe, eating well, exercising, etc., etc. Each of these is not necessarily pleasant in the moment, but each...
by Don Freeman | May 3, 2025 | Devotional
My first adult job was all lined up for after High School Graduation. It was exciting-scary. My first week as Junior Accounting Clerk was marked with a deluge of information. I was timid, new to the job and to the building, had a group of 50 clerks to get to know...
by Don Freeman | May 1, 2025 | Devotional
Sometimes I daydream that, in 2000 years of church history, we should have perfected this thing of being Christians, should have all the essentials buttoned up, no major issues left, all of us living in near perfect unity, the Gospel penetrating the very last areas of...
