It is 3:00 a.m. and my wife has started to cough.  Just a little dry mouth.  Nothing major.  I get up.  I bring the water. 

Service is easy when you feel like it.  Harder when you do not.  Hardest when the person you are serving is the same one who told you to get your own phone earlier that evening. 

This week's devotion sits with Mark 10:45 ("the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve") and the quiet truth that small obediences are what God uses to change us. 

It is 3:00 a.m.  My wife has started to cough.  She says she does not need water.  After forty years, I know that means she does. 

The best gifts are the ones no one sees us give. In a Sunday morning moment at a breakfast spot, I learned why Paul tied humility to joy and why Jesus told us to give in secret.  Today’s devotion is about some quiet thoughts on the kind of generosity that cannot become a transaction, and the grace we are really passing along when we give.

My life has been very unique. I’ve been blessed to experience many different perspectives that have helped me understand a certain truth. Sometimes what may be good for one person is not good for the other. It does not make it right or wrong. It does make it necessary for one to have a sense of balance in their life. That’s what today’s devotion is about: finding a healthy balance …

We all have something special in us. Whether it is small or world shattering, there is always something you can count on. Many of us don’t know what that is though. If we did, would we know what to do with it? Would it even matter? Today’s devotion delves into why it should …