Post Category: Thursday's Devotion

Marty's Devotion Week 19 Imagine a world without music.No choirs to stir the soulTheir lofty message inspiring, challenging,Making us see and understandThe possibilitiesThe depth of sorrowThe heights of joy,The hope of heaven. Imaging a world without music.No song of youth,No energetic and passionate verseExploding into existence in sounds,In utterances, in joy, in all t...

Marty's Devotion Week 17 Are choirs biblical?Choirs are biblical.And the Psalms were the hymnal of the New Testament church. This is not to say that choirs are the only valid scriptural model for worship, but to dismiss choirs altogether as archaic and irrelevant means we risk forsaking a rich biblical tradition. Oct 10, 2017 Although the New Testament does not speak to ...

Marty's Devotion: Week 16 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 I had an interesting reminder about trust this week. I was sitting at our dining room table eating supper last night and leaned back ever so slightly in our dining room chair. The...

Marty's Thursday DevotionJune 18, 2020 36 And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. 37 And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him, 38 being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship. The Apostle Paul was a man ...

Marty's Devotion Week 12: Psalm 71: 1-6 1 In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! 2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! 3 Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. 4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand ...