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.
Thankful for my Bible
You and I have access to God’s wonderful Word pretty much whenever we want it, in inexpensive printed editions as well as online on…
Thankful for my baptism
Some of you can remember your baptism as though it were yesterday because perhaps it was yesterday. For others it’s a faint memory of…
Overlooked blessings
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much” (Luke 16:10). Thanksgiving Day is dedicated to honoring God for the…
Refinement by fire
I find the concept of trial-by-comfort pretty appealing. It sounds so much better than the whole trial-by-fire thing, which is a concept I’m not…
Your alive and well and for-sure future
There is, perhaps, no more misunderstood word in the Bible than hope. In English, the word hope is used for any random wish, no…
P.R.A.Y.
Most of my prayers sounds like this: “Dear God, AAAAAAAAAAAAAA! In Jesus’ name. Amen.” I should explain. I think of prayer as having four…
Everybody knows your name
Remember the theme song from the TV sitcom Cheers? Everybody feels a need to belong somewhere. That’s what made the Cheers tavern so much…
The glory of grandparenting
Grandparenting is great. (Full disclosure: I do not know that from personal experience. I base that assertion on the empirical evidence of the many…
What every dude desires
Every wife’s plan should be to satisfy her man. No, the male supporters of Time of Grace did not pay me to say that….
Joy in hardship
This Thanksgiving it’s not going to be particularly hard to have thankful feelings in my heart. The year has brought plenty of challenges and…
Punishment pays for your sin
At Sensō-ji, the oldest Buddhist temple in Tokyo, there’s a shrine to Kume no Heinai. An expert swordsman of the 17th century, Kume killed…
Happy Jesus?
Jesus seems terribly earnest, doesn’t he? Driving out demons, teaching crowds of people for many hours at a time, scolding his disciples for being…