by Don Freeman | Mar 17, 2026 | Devotional
Many years ago, history-blasé me happened upon a book whose genre set a direction for my pleasure reading which lasts to this day: Exodus, by Leon Uris, was that book. I happily discovered historical fiction – a novel set accurately in history, mentioning real...
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 13, 2025 | Devotional
A college student with the goal of becoming a neurosurgeon enters her studies knowing that much study and reading and personal sacrifice are ahead. She signs up for classes, thereby consenting to the sleepless nights, the long years of internship, the financial...
by Don Freeman | Sep 21, 2024 | Devotional
As we follow the journeys of the disciples as they follow Jesus, we realize quickly we are much like them. Like them, we live in physical bodies in a physical world. We know how things operate, how to make our way in the world (more or less), how to interact with...
by Don Freeman | Jul 18, 2024 | Devotional
Here in Cincinnati, we are still celebrating the 50th anniversary of our Vineyard movement. It’s been moving to hear the stories of our beginnings, the people who invested their all in this new stirring of the Holy Spirit, the new songs that gripped hearts and...
