Dear Trinity Families, Here is your WELS Devotion “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:43-45 Loving Our Enemies When Jesus speaks of loving our enemies, he uses …
July 2, 2021 – Storm
Dear Trinity Families, Here is your WELS Devotion [The disciples] were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!” Mark 4:41 Storm When you have a moment, look up “Gardner Museum” online. When you get to the museum website, search Rembrandt, and you will find his extraordinary work of art, …
July 1, 2021 – Shipwreck
Dear Trinity Families, Here is your WELS Devotion “Last night, an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul.’” Acts 27:23,24 Shipwreck Let’s set the scene. The apostle Paul, in custody, is sailing to Rome to stand trial before Caesar. He’s sailing on a ship …
June 30, 2021 – Self
Dear Trinity Families, Here is your WELS Devotion He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 2 Corinthians 5:15 Self The Twilight Zone was a TV series in the early 1960s. Episodes typically included elements of science fiction or the supernatural. Almost every …
June 29, 2021 – Shield
Dear Trinity Families, Here is your WELS Devotion Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Proverbs 30:5 Shield In 2015, archaeologists discovered something very old. It was a wooden shield, rectangular in shape and reinforced with straps. Experts date the shield to several hundred years before the birth of …
June 28, 2021 – Everything for Your Good
Dear Trinity Families, Here is your WELS Devotion Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?” Job 38:1,2 Everything for Your Good The event was sold out. The featured speaker was a prominent British writer of television dramas and children’s literature. When a woman by …
June 27, 2021 – Out With the Old
Dear Trinity Families, Here is your WELS Devotion If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come; the old has gone, the new here! 2 Corinthians 5:17 Out With the Old It had become kind of embarrassing. The shoes had served me well, but the scuff marks were getting pretty bad. No matter what I did to clean …
June 26, 2021 – God Will Never Give Up on You
Dear Trinity Families, Here is your WELS Devotion “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will take a shoot from the very top of a cedar and plant it; I will break off a tender sprig from its topmost shoots and plant it on a high and lofty mountain…Birds of every kind will nest in it; they will …
June 25, 2021 – Full and Free Forgiveness
Dear Trinity Families, Here is your WELS Devotion When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. Jonah 3:10 Full and Free Forgiveness The ancient city of Nineveh was known for its violence. As the capital of the Assyrian empire, Nineveh dominated …
June 24, 2021 – Live by Faith
Dear Trinity Families, Here is your WELS Devotion For we live by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 Live by Faith Was it any wonder that Pontius Pilate found it hard to believe that Jesus was truly a king? That was the “crime” that Jesus was being accused of by his enemies—a rebel and an upstart who was trying …