Written Devotions
Daily devotions written by Pastor Mike and many other Time of Grace writers. These Bible-based messages cover a wide variety of topics and help you seek what matters most in life: Jesus. Join the thousands of people who receive these devotions for encouragement by subscribing to have them delivered to your inbox each morning.
Pastors should be more preachy
Don’t you love it (I mean, double-heart-eyed emoji love it) when people preach at you? No? Preaching isn’t the most popular word these days,…
My Father’s world
This is my Father’s world: The birds their carols raise, the morning light, the lily white, declare their Maker’s praise. God put people in…
Add an “and”
A few years ago, I learned the power of the word and. I was preparing for a series called Gay & God, and I…
Hey, you kids!
My ten-year-old buddies and I were messing around in a home under construction in our neighborhood. It was nighttime. We weren’t damaging anything, but…
Jesus is the password
Website passwords are challenging. You know, between the capital letters, the special characters, and the lowercase letters, it’s hard to keep them all straight….
Serenity
Reinhold Niebuhr was pastor of Bethel Church in Detroit during the time between two devastating World Wars. He had the habit of writing eloquent…
The diversity of eternity
This past month, I immersed myself in trying to understand issues of race in contemporary culture, including inner city poverty, unconscious prejudice, and mass…
3 Reasons to be religious
Fewer and fewer of today’s people practice organized religion. So permit the Bible a few minutes to make its claim why religion is important….
God doesn’t show favoritism
God’s kind of like Blake Shelton, one of the celebrity judges from the Voice. It’s a reality show where singers try to impress a…
#beautiful
When I look in the mirror, I see what lots of 40-somethings presumably see: sags and wrinkles and thinning hair. You older folks are…
Hard words, happy hearts
I recently heard about a girl who was raised in a religion that added conditions to the gospel. “Believe in Jesus and you are…
Remember what God said
Sports fans nervously pace the room when their favorite team is losing. But when the team pulls out a last-second win, they get pumped….