by Don Freeman | Mar 13, 2025 | Devotional
Apart from his family’s middle-of-the-night, harried escape from Herod into Egypt, when he was too little to remember, Jesus’ rural Galilean upbringing was mostly uneventful. At the very least it was unrecorded. He would have spent part of his boyhood playing with his...
by Don Freeman | Feb 18, 2025 | Devotional
Our world is one where the word ‘dystopia’ (an imaginary society with great suffering and injustice and hopelessness under a totalitarian regime marked by harshness) and its corresponding adjective, ‘dystopian’ are in vogue. It’s very chic to use either of them in...
by Don Freeman | Aug 27, 2024 | Devotional
One might think that a cascading of prophetic Scriptural fulfillments would make Scripture aficionados jubilant. But one might also be wrong. Terribly wrong in fact. The various groups of synagogue leadership (those most familiar with those prophecies) were the most...
by Don Freeman | Apr 27, 2024 | Devotional
As John opens his telling of the Good News of Jesus, he simultaneously connects and separates the Old and New, the ‘what was,’ and the ‘what is.’ He deftly acknowledges Moses’ critical role in Jewish history while shining a spotlight on the Person and Mission of...
by Don Freeman | Apr 6, 2024 | Devotional
“God . . . has planted eternity in the human heart, . . .” (Eccles. 3:11, NLT). Not jealousy, not anger, not frustration, not sloth, but eternity! Eternity, then, is the heart’s true home. So, maybe babies are born with an ‘eternity knowing’ but without...
