Diana's Devotional Corner

Now thank we all our God With heart and hands and voices Who wondrous things has done In whom this world rejoices Who from our mother’s arms Has blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love And still is ours today. Martin Rinkart and his wife arrived in...

How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony. Psalms 133:1 (New Living Translation) This past week, Swann and I watched the movie Glory which was released in 1989. We had never seen it before, but it caught our attention as an offering from...

11 The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there...

1 Thessalonians  5:11: "Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." The car hummed out of the church parking lot in the opposite direction of home. My dad exclaimed with false alarm that the car was driving itself. Oh...

24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back,...

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 I was reading recently that this verse is one of the most popular in the whole Bible. I can see why!  It is...

And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. - Romans 5:5 (NLT) This past Sunday was Pentecost, a celebration of the gift of the Holy Spirit after the...

I was reading recently in Church Life Journal from McGrath Institute on Church Life a recounting of the Christmas story from Luke. How often is that sweet story read without the comma - where the run-on says that the shepherds, “saw Mary and Joseph and the baby lying...

With a busy Mother’s Day weekend, I am a little later getting my reflection out. For the past several days, I have been thinking about mothers from the Bible. There really were all types!  My mind settled on Mary and her relative Elizabeth. Who better to...

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 As I get ready to retire, this verse has often popped into my head. The popular song by The Byrds, whose song uses this passage from Ecclesiastes, replays as well. ...

“But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be?  As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.” Our Wired Word study today addresses the subject of leadership and the makings...

Psalm 51:12 - Restore to me the joy of your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit. It happens to all of us. We encounter a period of several weeks where we have an especially hectic schedule. Things start to fall off of our plates because we’ve got too much...