by Don Freeman | Oct 24, 2024 | Devotional
I’m off-balance. While that may not be news to most of you, I’ve now been officially told so by practitioners who are trained to detect such things. I’m told all is not lost, however, as balance can be restored. To that end, several times a week while at the gym, I...
by Don Freeman | Oct 10, 2024 | Devotional
“In Him we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17:28, NIV. Intriguing statement, don’t you think? Besides good lyrics for a song, what are we to understand from it? What was Luke’s intent in writing this? Had he come to understand something of critical...
by Don Freeman | Oct 1, 2024 | Devotional
‘In this world you will have trouble.’ Jesus. In the West, we ‘hear’ him saying, ‘In this world you will have peace and prosperity.’ Something rises up inside us at the thought of difficulties and hurdles and sicknesses and setbacks. To bolster this thinking,...
by Don Freeman | Sep 24, 2024 | Devotional
Bread, growing up in my family, was strictly a homemade thing (I never had ‘boughten’ bread until I was a teenager, and I was, um, unimpressed, shall we say). I watched my mother knead that large lump of dough, on average, twice a week. Once, at around six years old,...
by Don Freeman | Sep 5, 2024 | Devotional
Let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, “I am holy; you be holy.” 1 Peter 1: 15,16, MSG These verses from 1 Peter have always intrigued, challenged, worried my brain. Especially God...