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“Mommy don’t leave!” “Daddy, don’t go!” It’s heart-wrenching to watch a small child’s reaction to separation. They don’t understand. They don’t have an adult’s perception of time or priority. They can’t see that sometimes Mom or Dad have to leave to take care of them. All they know is the fear and the pain. They have to learn to trust …
We still get to experience the most exciting part of Pentecost. The most exciting part wasn’t the sound of the wind or the tongues of fire or the crowd that gathered. It was God’s pouring out the Holy Spirit onto his disciples. Centuries before, God had told his people that it would happen. In the middle of prophecies of judgment …
Dear Trinity Family, Here’s today’s devotion from our synod. “Live your lives as strangers here.”1 Peter 1:17 Live as strangers? It sounds like pretty shoddy advice when you first read it. You mean we shouldn’t make friends? We shouldn’t care about our family? We should be apathetic about others and not get involved in our community? It can’t mean those …
Dear Trinity Family, Here’s today’s devotion from our synod. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in …
After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. Acts 1:9 I would assume that most of us have had the experience of watching a jet airliner flying across the sky. Eventually, to our eyes anyway, it gets so small that we can’t see it anymore. It’s not really …
Don’t you just love “aha!” moments? When your mind is opened and you can see something you never knew before? I wonder how many “aha!” moments the disciples had after Easter. For three years Jesus had been teaching them. And, for three years they mostly didn’t get it. Here in Luke 24 Jesus opened their minds. Think of that aha moment …
My phone buzzed again. It just reminded me of another appointment. It’s always doing that. Good thing, too. It’s easy for me to get lost in what I’m doing and then I forget about what’s coming next. God gave a reminder like that to the congregation in Colossae. He had Paul write it down to remind us, too. Good thing. …
Did you ever think that God isn’t doing much these days? Evil people are doing evil things and they seem to be getting away with it. Bad things happen to good people and nothing seems to be done about it. Where are the miracles? Where are the acts of God? What is God doing? Chapter six of the book of …
What is love? Everybody wants it, but very few people know what it is. There are very few examples of love in our “me-first” society. That’s one of the reasons we look to Jesus. He is the perfect example of love. And when we learn about love from Jesus, we learn that love is not about warm and fuzzy feelings …
Genesis 4:8–9 (EHV) 8Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” When they were in the field, Cain attacked Abel, his brother, and killed him. 9The Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” What do you think when you read the conversation between God …
