Devotionals

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] The prophet Isaiah put it this way: “For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and treachery against the LORD,

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Whenever I hear a public figure defend himself with the oft-repeated words “I know I’m not a perfect person,” I wince. It seems the height of pride. I feel like saying, “No, the thought never crossed anybody’s mind

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] To understand how God wants to “make everything new” in the world and in our lives we have to go back to when humanity was new the first time. That is why we are so captivated by the

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] In the beginning God created all things, and that tells us about his character. The world is a place of beauty, complexity and order, because that is what God is like. But it is when the Genesis account

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] On the night before Christmas in the year 1968 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders, the crew of Apollo 8, were further away from the earth than any human beings had been. It was the first time

[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] They say you only have one chance to make a first impression. That is because “new” can only be new once. What an impression God made at the start of all things. The very beginning of the very