All Sherry’s Devotionals (64) and All Carie’s Devotionals (39) It was summer of 2024 when Sherry Somer leaned over, looked at me after church, and said in a very serious tone, “Are you a writer?” ...

When I was growing up, it was all the rage to avoid conflict with your child by offering them two choices.  Secretly, both choices were options the parent could live with.  The parent could never...

If you only have five loaves and two fish, but you’ve got 5000 pairs of hungry eyeballs watching you distribute, conventional wisdom says … ration it.  You really need to make it last.  If everybody...

It is so easy for us to get caught in the tiny details of daily life: the laundry, the bills, the status of the gas tank, the failure or success of that last sales call;...

Did you ever play the video game Oregon Trail? It was one of the first role-playing video games ever.  A generation of kids lost untold hours online accumulating shovels, buying pack mules, hunting wild game,...

Speaking to someone at nighttime is so different than in the brash light of day.  It was at night that Nicodemus went to visit Jesus.  Quiet.  Candlelit.  He went seeking concrete answers to the undeniable...

The temple of Jerusalem at Passover must have been a complete sensory overload:  this manic festival atmosphere with people struggling to acquire what was necessary for worship.  Thousands of worshippers, thousands of sellers, shouting over...

I find myself feeling so deeply for the master of the banquet.  Here is this person hired specifically to handle the logistics of this wedding.   His entire job is to ensure everything runs smoothly...

Our focus in the forgiveness of others is obviously the other person:  the cultivation of mercy and grace for the one who has hurt us.  But sometimes our forgiveness can feel incomplete.  That resentment can...