by Don Freeman | May 16, 2023 | Devotional
The dictionary dampens the word ‘celebrate’ when placing it in a religious context, formalizing it and stripping it of joy, making it a rite duly, solemnly, performed. Otherwise, the word connotes party, boisterous rejoicing, exuberant happiness. So, when we church...
by Don Freeman | Apr 6, 2023 | Devotional
A Maundy Thursday scenario: It is a day of unparalleled heart heaviness for Jesus. He’s embraced his dearest friends, Lazarus, Mary, and Martha, weeping with them, for the final time. Re-entering Jerusalem, he’s greeted by a foreboding silence, the then-rejoicing,...
by Don Freeman | Mar 23, 2023 | Devotional
When the kindly stork tenderly deposits our swaddled, newborn selves on the front stoop of the dwelling which will become our home, and the family which will become ours from this time forth, there is much in store. While we are bundles of genes and traits and...
by Don Freeman | Mar 16, 2023 | Devotional
I was impressed! A young guy sent by the juvenile court system to the Teen Challenge center where I was teaching, was always ending his responses with, ‘Sir.’ He presented himself as extremely polite, well-mannered, respectful. It wasn’t long before I discovered that...
by Don Freeman | Mar 14, 2023 | Devotional
Prayer is a problematic process for Jesus’ production-oriented progeny (that’s us). Drilling down to the specifics of that alliterating statement, there are three principal prayer practices: 1. Humbling oneself. 2. Listening wholeheartedly. 3. Obeying submissively....
