by Don Freeman | Mar 29, 2022 | Devotional
‘… in the land that is plentiful, where your streams of abundance flow… when the sun’s shining down on me, when the world’s ‘all that it should be’… These words, found in Matt Redman’s worship song, ‘Blessed Be Your Name,’ lilt off our tongues with such ease, such...
by Don Freeman | Mar 26, 2022 | Devotional
Imagine with me, for a few lines, that a young, Californian surfing enthusiast hears rave reviews about Makka Beach in Jamaica being the best water to surf in, ever, hands down. He’s an inexperienced traveler, but on a whim he buys plane tickets with high hopes for...
by Don Freeman | Mar 24, 2022 | Devotional
(Just so you know, the following is not a trick question) Do you see an invitation or a commandment in the following words employed by Eugene Peterson? ‘Take your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life – and place it...
by Don Freeman | Mar 22, 2022 | Devotional
It’s been said that experience is the best teacher. A co-worker once remarked with jaundiced signature, “It should be! It costs plenty!” I agree that the learning from some of life’s lessons has a hefty, by times painful, by times humbling, ‘price tag’ attached. One...
by Don Freeman | Mar 19, 2022 | Devotional
One day, casually chatting on my phone while leaving the church building, I tossed my briefcase in the trunk and closed the lid. In a nano-second, my attention was riveted to glaringly obvious, but up till now unconsidered, facts. The building was locked. My car doors...
by Don Freeman | Mar 17, 2022 | Devotional
Invitations. They come as anything from delightful surprises to ghastly moral obligations (aka GMOs). So, we can be thrilled to bits or caused to groan inwardly, depending on the category. In the first, Sue’s parents regularly invited us to spend Christmas with them....
by Don Freeman | Mar 15, 2022 | Devotional
It’s 709-722-2415, and now you know it, too. However, it won’t help you because that is the phone number of my Uncle Bill and Aunt Dora, who are both with Jesus now. I called them only one time over 40 years ago and their number is still taking up space in my brain....
by Don Freeman | Mar 12, 2022 | Devotional
For the tech maniac, it’s a candy store existence in our day. So many developments in so many domains aimed at convenience in everything from seeing-eye, video-alarm, doorbells to talking, grocery-ordering, midnight-raid-scolding refrigerators to garage door closers...
by Don Freeman | Mar 10, 2022 | Devotional
Let’s talk about funerals, no one’s go-to conversation starter over coffee. While the death of a friend or loved one is one of the most challenging events of a lifetime, plunging us into a season of grief and sorrow and emotional turmoil, chilling us with its savagery...
by Don Freeman | Mar 8, 2022 | Devotional
The adult human body is 60% water (as per Google). When that balance is interrupted, we have developed a range of products that restore moisture to dry skin, chapped hands, dry eyes, dry mouth, dry and brittle hair, etc. I think the happy balance for our overall...
