Kathleen Petersen
Daily Author
I love digging around for scriptural nuggets of God’s truth with our devotional team and being amazed how many facets of meaning we discover. Thanks for reading!
Devotionals
You’re driving home after midnight and the light at a major intersection is interminable. You look around to see no police car or camera and run the red light. You boast on Facebook about making...
Discontent is a feeling of not being satisfied or a desire for something else (Webster’s Dictionary). It seems worth exploring ‘Holy Discontent’ – discontent from a Biblical perspective. Those centered on pleasing Jesus would likely...
And she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman (Hagar) and her son (Ishmael), for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.” The matter distressed Abraham greatly...
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (Matthew 6:14-15 ESV) What comes...
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. (Matthew 6:12 ESV) During my college years a former roommate asked me to lend her the equivalent of $750. She had just married...
“Give us this day our daily bread.” (Matthew 6:11 NASB) What I realize about this part of Jesus’ prayer is how easy it is for me to disconnect with the need expressed here. During my...
Exploring Genesis 1 gives us insight into this portion of Jesus’ model prayer, May your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Genesis 1:1-25 (NIV) is filled with...
In Heaven In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each...
…these who are here should state what crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin—unless it was this one thing I shouted as I stood in their presence: ‘It is concerning the...
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as...
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken....
*As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “Who...
