by Don Freeman | Jun 21, 2025 | Devotional
A high school teacher arrives at a new school for the first day of classes. He preps his classroom with subject essentials and waits for the arrival of his students. He notices with interest the posture, facial expression, the choosing of seats and whether any of his...
by Don Freeman | Jun 14, 2025 | Devotional
Freedom is sweetest to those who’ve known some type of confinement. All across northern France, for example, countless towns and villages have streets re-named with the date of their liberation by Allied Forces in WWII (i.e. Rue du 22 novembre, Mulhouse, Alsace). Such...
by Don Freeman | Jun 12, 2025 | Devotional
The arrival of God’s Spirit at Pentecost was dramatically announced in wind and flames. The wind is a symbol of the breath of God, His Spirit, or ‘ruach.’ The fire represents God’s presence with His people as they were making their way through the wilderness to the...
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 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...
