There is none like you among the gods, O Lord,     nor are there any works like yours. All the nations you have made shall come     and worship before you, O Lord,     and shall glorify your name. For you are great and do wondrous things;     you alone are God. Teach me your way, O Lord,     that […]

The theme for this week’s devotionals is absolute truth. The sermon on Sunday was around that topic, and I’d encourage you to head to 68church.com to hear that message as a primer for this week’s devotionals. In the sermon I made some remarks about the challenges with the topic of absolute truth in our modern society, […]

Today we conclude our tour of Bible characters who suffered by looking briefly at the life of the Apostle Paul. His journey with struggle and suffering has been more widely taught, so hopefully today’s episode will be a little shorter than the last few days. No, that isn’t a promise.  Paul’s journey begins under a […]

The fourth stop on our tour of Bible characters who struggled takes us to the New Testament and to a fairly unique individual who ate locusts and honey, lived in the wilderness and preached a pretty stern message.  John the Baptist’s story has a miraculous beginning similar to that of Jesus. He is the other […]

So, it would be impossible to do a tour of Biblical characters who suffered and not bring up Job, which we know is everyone’s favorite book of the Bible. I mean, it’s the book we all go to when we need a pick me up, right? As much as I’ve been looking forward to talking […]

As we continue our tour of Biblical characters who went through various struggles, we turn our attention to the prophet Elijah. His story can be found in 1 Kings 17-19 and 2 Kings 1-2.  His story starts out by telling King Ahab that there is going the be a severe drought and famine in the […]

Throughout this week’s devotionals, I want to look at some Bible Characters who suffered and see what we can learn from them for ourselves. To get started we’re going to look at Joseph. His story can be found in Genesis 37-50. There is an animated movie by Dreamworks that does a good job telling the […]

“7 Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. 9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, […]