by Don Freeman | Feb 20, 2025 | Devotional
A 19th Century hymn contains these lyrics: “O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to the Lord in prayer.” (What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Jospeh Scriven, 1819-1886). Hmm. I guess not a whole...
by Don Freeman | Feb 6, 2025 | Devotional
Pilate despairingly posed the moot question to Jesus: ‘What is Truth?’ Some in our day would query similarly: ‘What is Peace?’ Oh sure, we are familiar with definitions written in dictionaries and the like, but for the ‘boots on the ground’ reality, how is it lived...
by Don Freeman | Feb 4, 2025 | Devotional
Momentum: bare toes encountering table legs discover its existence. So do shoppers who attempt to pass through closed, all-glass doorways. So do vehicles failing to cede right-of-way to a tree. We live with this thing called momentum every day of our lives, more often...
by Don Freeman | Jan 11, 2025 | Devotional
One of the advantages of being blissfully unaware of so many things is that every day is a revelation, sometimes of something momentous, sometimes of things of little consequence. Take for example, not long ago I was reading an article and happened to notice a detail...
by Don Freeman | Jan 7, 2025 | Devotional
If I could suggest, instead of becoming the brunt of that tired joke about broken New Year’s resolutions, why not skip that in favor of a new awareness, a new or broader awareness of the immensity of our agency in Jesus? Our agency is described saying: ‘I have the...
