

Love as if it might be your last
Jesus Wept. (Jn. 11:35). One of my favorite quotes by G.K. Chesterton goes something like this: “The surest way to love anything is to remember that at any moment it might be lost.”
I try to remember that quote daily. It’s especially handy when it comes to loving my wife on those days when she can be a little hard to love. And, knowing that she never has any need of remembering it since I’m rarely hard to love brings me smug satisfaction.
While visiting Sheryl’s mom recov

What Picture Illustrates Your Walk with Jesus -- Right Now?
Note: Our devotion today highlights the creativity and ingenuity of our Christian camp leaders and volunteers, who this week, are hosting their first-ever virtual camp, “Survivors,” at Front Range Camp. ABCRM Ministry and Mission Coach Mike Oldham and Minister to Future Leaders Lauren Parliament have invested incalculable hours preparing for this unprecedented event (due to the restrictions and closures caused by the COVID-19 virus). (Click here to view more photos and update


Jesus’ Prayer Life Challenges Me
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles (Lk. 6:12-13, ESV). Did you hear about the shipwreck that left two men stranded on a deserted island? They decided to divide the island into two halves and to seek God for their provision. The first man discovered water on his side of the island while the second man did not. The first guy


“The Right Focus For Approaching God’s Presence”
... "but lay up for yourself treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Mt. 6:20-21, NKJV); also read, Mt. 6:1-21. Our text is a part of Jesus Christ’s “Sermon On The Mount.” In His sermon, Jesus taught his disciples, and all who were a part of the crowd to which he was speaking, what it truly meant to live in relationship with God the Father, and how God w


The Dog and the New Doorbell ...
11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him to his face, for what he did was very wrong. 12 When he first arrived, he ate with the Gentile believers, who were not circumcised. But afterward, when some friends of James came, Peter wouldn’t eat with the Gentiles anymore. He was afraid of criticism from these people who insisted on the necessity of circumcision. 13 As a result, other Jewish believers followed Peter’s hypocrisy, and even Barnabas was led astray by thei