Last Note on “Jody’s Devotionals”
I have posted my last blog on the Jody’s Devotionals website, The Life Journey/Mission Continues. I will be posting here at least twice a week. Hope to see many old friends here and meet some new ones!
I have posted my last blog on the Jody’s Devotionals website, The Life Journey/Mission Continues. I will be posting here at least twice a week. Hope to see many old friends here and meet some new ones!
God made humann beings for righteousness, but they seek many alternatives. – Ecclesiastes 7:29 (ISV) Tonight is the last night of this year. Are you glad the year is over? Are you hopeful for this next one? I have met several people this week, in the grocery store, on the phone, and even in church…
I was thinking this morning about Jesus sitting on a hillside talking to 2, 3, 4,000 people. I am not an ancient near Eastern historian so I don’t know what the population of Nazareth or even Jerusalem was. It struck me that these people walked from their homes to go hear what this “Teacher” had…
[Jesus said,] “God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” – John 3:17 (CEV) What is the worst sin you have ever done? I don’t have to list a bunch of possibilities because you know what that sin is. It is there, in the…
As September draws near even the churches who have taken a summer vacation have put out their bulletins and dusted off their websites to entice members to sign up for small group classes. Leadership personnel are hit with Saturday and after-work, late-in-the-evening seminars to prepare them for various committee positions and re-certify them to teach…
Before you take the time in your day to read what I might say, it is truly more important that you read Psalm 46, & what God says: God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,3 though its waters roar and foam and…
So on the first day of the seventh month, the priest, Ezra, read the Law to the people from daybreak to noon. And all the people listened carefully and thoughtfully to the reading of the Law. Nehemiah 8:2-3 (my paraphrase) I have read this passage several times and every time I think to myself, “I…
Thank you for the wisdom you have shared over the years. God spoke to me countless times through you. I will be checking in here regularly!