I want to be “on” every moment.  If I drink the right amount of coffee, with the right amount of sugar, after the perfect amount of sleep — I can approach that.  There are [...]

I was 16 going on 17; it was summer, and my formerly favorite English teacher was spending extended time in the doghouse of my mind. Why, you might ask, would I be wasting vacation time [...]

John 11:1-43 In the “Introduction” to his book, Brave Companions, historian David McCullough, makes this statement: “The past after all is only another name for someone else’s present. How would things turn out? They [...]

John 6:16–21 NIV When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was already dark, and Jesus had not yet come [...]

The Daily has taken a step away from the book of Revelation. In the meantime, we will continue to look at Revelation’s subject – Jesus.  While Revelation seems to show Jesus set apart from [...]

I know your head probably popped off your pillow this Monday morning thinking about reading this devotional. You ran downstairs, made a cup of coffee, grabbed your well-worn Bible, and sat down in your [...]

The faithful members of the Church at Thyatira were embattled from without and within. They had to swear an oath to Caesar in order to join a workers’ guild and be allowed to work in [...]

Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. [...]

    When the Lord looks at us with “eyes like blazing fire” it seems that kind of penetrating gaze might hurt terribly.  It might blind us forever.  We might lower our heads, drop to [...]

“To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze. I know your [...]