DAY 13 - 1 Samuel 24:6 "[David] said to his men, 'The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord's anointed, or lift my hand against him; for he is the anointed of the Lord.'" Loetta Wideman, missionary to Ethiopia and Kenya, challenges us to affirm three people today. [...]

DAY 12 - Matthew 5:14-16; 1 Thessalonians 2:8; James 5:16; Isaiah 59:2 Chris Sheep, missionary to Comoro, does a good job explaining transparency and openness.  It's almost become a joke for us in the west to hear someone express that they are planning to or trying to be transparent.  Our political leaders try to pull [...]

DAY 11 - Joel 2:28 "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy." (ESV) Will Cleveland opens this daily devotion with a basic definition of prophecy.  He explains it as, "seeing and declaring God's perspective." He follows this definition with a series of Scriptural references to support [...]

DAY 10 - Matthew 16:25 "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." The thought of putting a "Red Letter", what could be your final recorded thoughts on this planet, on paper and reading it to those you love must be one [...]

DAY 9 - James 1:2 "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds." I wonder if my passion and courage would be any different if I had to suffer 'physical' torture?  It recently occurred to me that my brothers in Christ all over the planet suffer unbelievable physical and psychological [...]

DAY 8 - John 10:10  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. The Taylor's, that's my mom and dad, had three boys.  Through the years our description is as follows.  The oldest boy is the passion, the middle [...]