by Don Freeman | Apr 22, 2021 | Devotional
You talk about amazing design! God deposited in our bodies such a level of efficiency that he can download a whole day’s worth of love and grace and discernment in just 480 minutes while we sleep. Busy night for Him, blissful unawareness for us. Then, each morning,...
by Don Freeman | Apr 20, 2021 | Devotional
In the north where I grew up, winter was an extended season, frequently blowing and snowing well in advance of its December 21 admissible date and over-staying its dubious welcome equally far past the mandated March 21 expiration date. The cumulative effect of this...
by Don Freeman | Apr 17, 2021 | Devotional
It’s a struggle sometimes to get the words right when describing certain feelings or events or places. When the girl you love says the all-important, “Yes!” telling somebody how you felt, well, it ain’t easy to condense it into mere words. (right, guys?) When the baby...
by Don Freeman | Apr 15, 2021 | Devotional
Teachers and professors run the gamut from excellent and engaging to pitiful and boring. We’ve probably all had both. And we remember those most representing the extreme ends of the spectrum. A standout from the first group for me was my 11th grade History...
by Don Freeman | Apr 13, 2021 | Devotional
Having grown up in the Dark Ages (aka 20th Century), it was the way of things. You could count on it. It even happened at the gas pump! At the grocery store. At the shoe store. You get the picture. What stood out was the rare occasion, the exception to the rule, the...
by Don Freeman | Apr 10, 2021 | Devotional
What is your favorite underdog story, whether a book or film? A recent internet search pulled up loads of stories where the least likely, the nobody, the total loser, the one scorned by all, started from below scratch and made life work despite the obstacles blocking...
by Don Freeman | Apr 8, 2021 | Devotional
As a lifetime Easterner, big water, aka the Atlantic Ocean, always lay to the east. Driving to the beach was always to the east. East meant, simply, toward the water. Even with my wanting sense of direction, that was fairly firmly established somewhere in my gray...
by Don Freeman | Apr 6, 2021 | Devotional
We all know this. After a super intense weekend retreat, after the honeymoon, after the big anniversary celebration, after that long-awaited, once-in-a-lifetime getaway, after graduation, after the retirement – the letdown, the exhaustion, the emptiness, the fading...
by Don Freeman | Apr 3, 2021 | Devotional
At noon on that Friday, the Son of God was raised up from the earth, beaten and bleeding, with spikes fastening him to the cross. At that moment, our brightest star, the sun, was horrified to shine, exposing Jesus’ nakedness and humiliation, so it extinguished itself,...
by Keith Caughlin | Mar 30, 2021 | Devotional
The Story of the Tune by Larry Norman was written in 1983 and found on the album of the same name. Norman is considered by most to be the great-grandfather of the Christian Rock genre after coming out of the Rock and Roll scene in California and becoming rather...
