by Kelly Potts | Apr 10, 2025 | Devotionals
“Rootlessness” SCRIPTURE The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly...
by Kelly Potts | Apr 9, 2025 | Devotionals
“Vision” SCRIPTURE They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say,...
by Kelly Potts | Apr 8, 2025 | Devotionals
“Idols” SCRIPTURE When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of...
by Kelly Potts | Apr 7, 2025 | Devotionals
“Institutionalized” SCRIPTURE Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many ill, blind, lame, and paralyzed people. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years....
by Kelly Potts | Apr 6, 2025 | Devotionals
“Sacrifice” SCRIPTURE Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of...
by Kelly Potts | Apr 5, 2025 | Devotionals
“Die to Self” SCRIPTURE Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life...
by Kelly Potts | Apr 4, 2025 | Devotionals
“Ashes” SCRIPTURE But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. —Isaiah 43:1 DEVOTIONAL In 1974, 26-year-old director, Steven Spielberg, was...
by Kelly Potts | Apr 3, 2025 | Devotionals
“The Cross” SCRIPTURE Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. What...
by Kelly Potts | Apr 2, 2025 | Devotionals
“Compassion” SCRIPTURE Jesus began to weep. —John 11:35 (read John 11:17-44 for context) DEVOTIONAL When Jesus approached the home of Mary and Martha shortly after their brother, Lazarus, died, Martha was first to meet him. She said to him, “Lord, if you...
by Kelly Potts | Apr 1, 2025 | Devotionals
“Suffering” SCRIPTURE And not only that, but we also boast in our suffering, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured...
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