Devotion – Peace! Be Still!

Devotion – Peace! Be Still!

Sunday, February 25 PEACE! BE STILL! Page 221 (African American Heritage Hymnal) Master, the tempest is raging! The billows are tossing high! The sky is over shadowed with blackness, No shelter or help is nigh; Carest Thou not that we perish? How canst Thou lie...
Devotion – Peace! Be Still!

Devotion – How to Save a Soul

Saturday, February 24 Scripture: Mark 8:31-38 Verse 36 has been a part of my life seemingly forever, but this version is not the way it is in my consciousness. For that version, I had to search my home for a King James Bible with the familiar verse “For what shall it...
Devotion – Peace! Be Still!

Devotion – Suffering Servant

Wednesday, February 21 Scripture: Mark 8:31-38 Too many times in the gospels, the disciples are only looking at the most obvious effects of Jesus’ ministry. They don’t want to upset the existing religious order and yet they seem to think that Jesus will...
Devotion – Peace! Be Still!

Devotion – Let Go-Let God

Tuesday, February 20 Scripture: Mark 8:31-38 If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. Mark 8:34. Early one morning my phone rang waking me up from a sound sleep. It was a request for a ride to a doctor’s...
Devotion – Peace! Be Still!

Devotion – Good News?

Second Week in Lent Incredible News Monday, February 19 Scripture: Mark 8:31-38 When we think of the gospels as “good news,” we rarely think what it must have been like for Jesus’ followers before they knew about his death and resurrection. How would they have coped...