by Hugh Whelchel Richard Leider and David Shapiro, in their book, Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life, found that the number-one fear of most people is having lived a meaningless life. Only 40 percent of practicing Christians surveyed said they have a clear sense of God’s calling on their lives. […]
By Brent Amato Pestilence: Any extremely poisonous, injurious or fatal contagious or infectious disease, especially one of epidemic proportions, as a plague. Sound familiar? “Coronavirus.” As of Saturday, April 25, according to a tally compiled by John Hopkins University from government figures, the worldwide death toll topped 202,000 and in the U.S., infections surpassed 930,000 […]
By Brent Amato As we shared in the last devotional (click here to see PART I), God was not taken by surprise by COVID-19. In fact around 1000 B.C., He inspired a psalmist to write and sing Psalm 91. This Psalm is most certainly for us in such a time as this. How many 16-verse […]
By Brent Amato As we shared in the previous two devotionals (click here to see Part I and Part II), God was not taken by surprise by COVID-19. In fact around 1000 B.C., He inspired a psalmist to write and sing Psalm 91. This Psalm is most certainly for us in such a time as this. How many […]
by Rick Campanelli If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge…. but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and […]
By Rick Campanelli “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Matthew 6.10 We have said the Lord’s Prayer so many times, it is hard to actually pay attention to what we are saying, or to whom we are saying it. Lawyers, especially, should seek to be attentive to giving […]
By Brent Amato This piece is currently featured on the CLS Blog and is shared here with permission. To learn more about the CLS Blog, visit CLSBlog.org. ————- It was probably written around A.D. 55 or 56 – a long, long time ago! It is part of the Bible, which means it is inspired by […]
by Rick Campanelli You May Die, But Not a Hair on Your Head Will Perish One of Jesus’ Radically Disruptive Statements “ome of you they will even put to death…. But not a hair on your head will perish.” Luke 21: 16-19 Imagine going to a doctor and getting a diagnosis like this: “This may […]
by Rick Campanelli Matt. 13:51-52 “Have you understood all these things?” They said to him, “Yes.” And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.” The next […]
by Rick Campanelli “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matt 5:3 It is Good Friday. Good Friday helps us contemplate what it means to be poor in spirit because whatever we may think it means, on Good Friday, God himself demonstrated it: He chose to enter into our […]
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