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11/24/2024 – “Direction of Focus” / “Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters …, so our eyes look to the LORD our God …’ (Psalm 123.2).


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“This verse is a description go total reliance on God. Just as the eyes of a servant are riveted on his master, our eyes should be directed to and …

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11/23/2024 – “The Distraction of Contempt” / “Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us! For we are exceedingly filled with contempt” (Psalm 123:3).


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“What we must beware of is not damage to our belief in God but damage to our Christian disposition or state of mind. ‘Take heed to your spirit, that …

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11/22/2024 – “This is what the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb, says: ‘I am the LORD, who made everything; who stretched out the heavens by Myself; who alone spread out the earth;’ ” (Isaiah 44:24)


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Broken Pieces And The Carpenter

Friday, November 22, 2024

It’s actually a Jewish tradition that the Messiah would be a carpenter. Why a carpenter? A carpenter specializes in putting things together. A …

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11/22/2024 – “Shallow and Profound” / “Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31).


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“Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow aspects of life are not ordained by God; they are ordained by Him equally as much as the profound. We …

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11/21/2025 – “Therefore, brethren, we are debtors– not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” (Romans 8:12-13)


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Titanics And Lifeboats

Thursday, November 21, 2024

The Titanic was called the unsinkable ship. It was almost a world unto itself- luxurious, ornate, elegant, and majestic. The idea of it sinking was …

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11/20/2024 – “But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.” 1 Timothy 6:11


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Counterfeit and Real Blessing

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Four salesmen perpetrated a hoax on a farmer in Brazil. They tricked him into investing his life savings into a machine that would ‘print …

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11/19/2024 – Let’s pray together on the awesomeness and majesty of the LORD – Psalm 145. And there are so many other Prayers of Praise in Psalms for other starts to our day.


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Steam Kettle Theologians

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

A missionary cleverly trying to teach natives in Africa about the locomotive train by using planks of wood to represent the tracks, lined up carts …

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12/02/2024 – “Christian Perfection” / “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfect …” (Philippians 3:12). / fyi – December 2nd devotion


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“It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do — God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. …

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11/17/2024 – “Winning into Freedom” / “If the Son makes you free, you are free indeed” (John 8:36)./ fyi – November 18th devotional


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“If there is even a trace of individual self-satisfaction left in us, it always says, ‘I can’t surrender,’ or ‘I can’t be free.’ But the spiritual part of our …

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11/16/2024 – “Still Human!” / “… whatever you do, do all to the glory of God”. (1 Corinthians 10:31)


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“In the Scriptures, the great miracle of the incarnation slips in into the ordinary life of the child, the great miracle of the transfiguration fades into the demon-possessed valley below; …

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