Devotions from Albert Haase,s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer Love of God and love of neighbor go hand in hand.  One love complements and completes the other. In John 4:20 it says we cannot love God whom we have not seen if we do not love our brother or sister whom we have seen. In…

Devotions based on Albert Haase’s  book, “Living the Lord’s Prayer Each Sunday when we go to church we find as many different images of God as there are people in the congregation.  Each of us has painted an image of God on our heart that is framed from our past experiences and shaped by our…

Devotions from Albert Haases’ book, Living the Lord’s Prayer. Haase is a priest, spiritual director, and former missionary to China When a disciple asked Jesus “Teach us to pray” Jesus didn’t respond with a method or technique but with words that capture the essence of His teaching and ministry. Much of the time when we…

Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book Finding Our Way Home Heaven is “Where we find what we want, what we have always wanted.”  WE have always wanted to be home, surrounded in the security of perfect love and understanding. Sometimes we obscure this great good, this deep longing of our heart, by filling our lives with…

 Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book, Finding Our Way Home God is high above us, transcendent in all ways, yet He is also with us, immanent in our day-to-day world. If we lean too far in the direction of transcendence we may view our creator as remote and not concerned about us. If we teeter the…

Devotions from  Mark McMinn’s book, Finding Our Way Home Among the blessings in life, good friendship is among the very best.  Being with a good friends is like enjoying cool, fresh water after a long hot hike, quenching the thirst of our soul.  But in our friendships, our pride often keeps us from seeing the…

Devotions based on  Finding Our Way Home by Mark McMinn Jesus offers us a better way that ultimately leads to greater peace and joy than any life plan we could devise on our own. The path to the abundant life He came to bring calls us to give up trying to engineer our own happiness…

Devotions from Mark McMinn on Finding Our Way Home Forgiving and remembering often bring unanticipated blessings. One blessing is gratitude.  A grateful life is one in which God is found everywhere.  We embrace all of life: the good the bad, the joyful and the painful, the holy and not-so-holy. We become aware of God’s life,…

Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book,  Finding Our Way Home All of us have been wounded by others and we have done our share of wounding also. Some would tell us to forget about it, to put the past behind us. But the path to peace and forgiveness is not found through forgetting, but through remembering.…

Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book, Finding Our Way Home Each of us is individually valued by God. God views us collectively but also individually as He knows and understands each of us. He knows every doubt, every longing, and every fear we have.  He is not shocked by our behavior. Because He knows and understands…