Devotionals
-
Devotional No. 3: Adoration
Devotional #3 for our November 5th Night of Worship. Adoration is not a warmer word for gratitude. Gratitude answers a gift. Adoration answers a Person. It is attention fixed on worth, with the self moved off the center of the sentence. John does not ease us into that. He puts us in a room where…
-
Devotional No. 2: Gratitude
Devotional #2 for our November 5th Night of Worship. Gratitude is not a mood. It is the right answer to a gift you did not earn, offered by people who have run out of adequate words.
-
Devotional No. 1: Redemption
Devotional #1 for our November 5th Night of Worship. Redemption is a buy-back. The word does not mean improvement, and it does not mean God decided to look the other way. It means a price was paid to release someone who could not pay it himself. Paul puts the mechanism in one sentence and does…