by Don Freeman | May 22, 2025 | Devotional
Just like for the disciples, it’s easy for us to hear Jesus’ words and attempt to fit them into our current understanding. Or even to skew his words to make them less challenging. But if we are to be his disciples in our Jerusalem, our Judea, our Samaria, and to the...
by Don Freeman | Apr 22, 2025 | Devotional
Since Adam’s fall, God’s Plan ‘A’ has been in progress, building, directing, speaking, punishing where necessary, speaking more. To His children, His work has looked like the inside of a tapestry cushion, an intertangled mess of various threads and knots in myriad...
by Don Freeman | Mar 22, 2025 | Devotional
This past week I had the unique privilege of being in a meeting of pastors, specifically, a Lutheran, an Episcopalian, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, and me. The meeting began with a discussion centered around donuts which had been purchased for the gathering. Somehow,...
by Don Freeman | Mar 15, 2025 | Devotional
‘Discretion’ is defined as cautious reserve in speech. ‘Reserve’ is defined as cautious in making a full explanation, restraint in the free expression of one’s mind. Neither of these is to be expected in a little child. It is pretty much useless to try to...
by Don Freeman | Feb 11, 2025 | Devotional
You just can’t make this stuff up. It’s right there for all to read, this story of the Israelites, soon after their Moses-led liberation from 400 years of Egyptian slavery. God provided them with manna to eat but they quickly began to yearn for what they had left...
