by Don Freeman | Jun 17, 2023 | Devotional
Spoiler alert: The following is another flight of PD imagination. I often like to try to fill in Scripture’s ‘silent gaps,’ those so-intriguing times when a ton of movie-worthy things are happening, but which are not recorded for us. So… As the young and...
by Don Freeman | Jan 28, 2023 | Devotional
There was a liar. Then, a cheat, an adulterer, a foreigner, a prostitute, a rebel, a blasphemer, a braggart . . . This is the line-up of Jesus’ ancestors. A motley bunch to say the least! More, these sparkling examples of society’s finest were God-seen, God-loved,...
by Don Freeman | Jan 12, 2023 | Devotional
I think Paul was jubilant that day. He held in his hand official orders from the High Priest, a search warrant to seek out and arrest everyone they found in Damascus who still professed to be a follower of that rabblerouser, Jesus of Nazareth, even though the man...
by Don Freeman | Aug 16, 2022 | Devotional
Our souls, with their God-sized bandwidth, have near-endless capacity for expansion. That’s why when a story or a film or a piece of music or art (or a sports team), gets to our emotions, there’s this swelling sensation in our chest, and often a welling up of tears....
by Don Freeman | Jul 29, 2021 | Devotional
It’s summer, and that means butterflies, those amazingly beautiful insects flitting around gardens and flowers and plants everywhere. I’ve read that there are 20,000 species of them. The famous Monarch makes an annual 4,000-mile migration (round trip) to avoid the...