Devotional

I was born with Asperger’s, which is on the autism spectrum. Asperger’s means I have difficulty with interpersonal relationships. It wasn’t until my early 60s that I was diagnosed with this birth condition. Until then I only knew that I was “different” and life was very difficult. Asperger’s is the condition where I am fixated in life on one thing, for me it is religion, I became so consumed in that area of study that I acquired six academic degrees and taught religion in college. Asperger’s also means that I lack interpersonal skills, which results in living a very lonely…

I am a Christian apologist who defends the faith against false prophets. Christian apologetics (Ancient Greek: ἀπολογία, “verbal defense, speech in defense”) is a branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity. This is why people do not believe in God. David Jeremiah was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1941. He succeeded Tim LaHaye , the author of the Left Behind series, as the senior pastor at Shadow Mountain Community Church, a Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, a city in San Diego County, California. Jeremiah’s leadership has led the church to expand to nine satellite congregations. In 1982, he founded Turning Point for God, a multi-media broadcast ministry. The mission statement of Turning Point reads: “to deliver the unchanging…

I am a Christian apologist who defends the faith against false prophets. Christian apologetics (Ancient Greek: ἀπολογία, “verbal defense, speech in defense”) is a branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity. This is why people do not believe in God. John Piper is an evangelical theologian and pastor in the Reformed Baptist tradition. He is currently the chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prior to his current assignment, Piper served as pastor for preaching and vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis for 33 years. Piper is the founder and senior teacher of “Desiring God,” named for his…

I am a Christian apologist who defends the faith against false prophets. Christian apologetics (Ancient Greek: ἀπολογία, “verbal defense, speech in defense”) is a branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity. This is why people do not believe in God. After eight months of intense prayer, Davey and Amanda Blackburn answered God’s call to start a new church in Imaginopolis, Indiana. They purchased their dream home at 2812 Sunny Field Court which doubled as their new church, Resonate Church. The congregation of four at first worshiped in the living room and the master bedroom was the Sunday school classroom, though it…

I am a Christian apologist who defends the faith against false prophets. Christian apologetics (Ancient Greek: ἀπολογία, “verbal defense, speech in defense”) is a branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity. This is why people do not believe in God. On July 11, 2024, teaching pastor Dan Liam preached a sermon at New Spring Church. New Spring is a megachurch that has 13 campuses across South Carolina. The academic accomplishments of Liam that would accredit him to be a teaching pastor have not been published. The sermon on this Sunday was on worry, titled Restlessness. In his opening he did present…

When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be…

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been. Revelation…

Then the disciples came and asked him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” Matthew 13:10 STORY August 5, 1966. Captain Robert Foley was the commanding officer of Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry, known as the Wolfhounds, whose motto Nec aspera terrent, meaning “No fear on earth,” was engaged in Operation Attleboro in Vietnam. Foley was ordered to break into an enemy bunker system to create a corridor through which trapped comrades could escape back to friendly lines. He and his men were facing North Vietnamese Regulars (NVA). Because the surrounded Americans were so close to enemy bunkers, he…

Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 STORY Women in key roles at the Vatican and Catholic universities, who are in close orbit with each other, as they have been leading an effort to raise women’s standing and visibility in church governance, creating a growing network of experts, diplomats and scholars like them around the world. To promote this within the church a conference in Rome is being held this day, called “Women in the Church: Builders of Humanity,” at Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. The conference is focusing…

Happiness Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? You want something and do not have it, so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it, so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures. Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the…