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.
God loves celebration
Most of us celebrate and enjoy feasting at some point during the year, but I suspect that oftentimes we don’t consider celebration as being…
You are the answer!
The people around me have been discouraged lately. (Wait, that sentence could be sorely misinterpreted. Let me try again …) The people around me…
Dads deserve more
We do dads a disservice when we distill them down to their hobbies. Today is a day to honor all that a father represents:…
Do not share your faith
If you are hesitant to share your faith with others, I have some good news. When Jesus commissioned his disciples to go out into…
Grievances
It didn’t take too long after sin entered the world for people to start harboring grievances. Cain killed his brother Abel because Cain was…
One day at a time
My mind often starts to race. I bet yours does too. I think of all the things I have to do today. Then I…
80/20 is bad for all 100
In 1896 Vilfredo Pareto noticed something odd about his garden. As he picked his peapods, he noticed that some pods had more peas than…
Do look up!
In screenwriter David Sirota’s political/social satire Don’t Look Up, an astrology student and her professor discover that a comet, large enough to destroy the…
Grace isn’t our excuse
Every year I have the privilege of talking about biblical sexuality at a local Christian high school where many of the students have been…
What about the people you don’t like?
Jesus spent his life serving. The one who “did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a…
Flip the kayak
I have a kayak I don’t use much, so it mostly sits upside down and ignored behind our garage. Recently, we were doing some…
Take away the stone
Lazarus died. It seemed he died too young. Mary and Martha—sisters of Lazarus—were heartbroken. The entire community gathered around them and mourned with them….