Focus on Faith Weekly Devotional

One of the wonderful quotes contained in his book “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes:  “Sorrow looks back.  Worry looks around.  Faith looks up.” Doing a little research on Emerson, I…

“For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober…

  Years ago, when I was in my very late teens and early twenties, I ran with a group of “kids” who would all congregate at the home of one…

  Do any of you remember older generations drinking from their saucer? I can remember my grandmother and her sister drinking tea from their saucers. I always thought it was…

By God’s grace, without earning it, all are granted the status of being considered righteous before him, through the act redeeming us from our enslavement from sin that was accomplished…

“Those who trust in the Lord are as secure as Mount Zion; they will not be defeated but will endure forever. Just as the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord…

“Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who…

Last week I was driving home from Circleville, Ohio. I had spent six hours working with a wonderful group of passionate educators, but I was ready to be home so…

“Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.  Are not two sparrows sold…

“I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;  thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the…