Posts from April 2026

Daily Light Devotional: Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path. April 30 2026 Text: John 1:1-3 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” Many years ago, I was part of a Presbytery committee charged with hiring a University Chaplain. His academic…

Daily Light Devotional: You Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105) April 29 2026 Text: Romans 10:9-10 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. In Matthew 5:11 Jesus…

Daily Light Devotional: Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105) April 28 2026 Text: John 10:28-30 28 “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.” There has always been this ongoing debate between those who…

Daily Light Devotional: Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105) April 27, 2026 Text: Romans 1:21 “For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.” During our honeymoon in 2016, Marilyn and I stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon. And when you stand at the edge,…

Daily Light Devotional: Your light is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105) April 24 2026 Text: 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were…

Daily Light Devotional: Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105) April 23 2026 Text: Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” At the end of the Gospel of Matthew Jesus gave the disciples the “Great Commission” – the command to go and make disciples of…

Daily Light Devotional: Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105) April 22 2026 Text: Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. When we were born again, and became new creations, it wasn’t so that we can live our own lives. Rather, it was so Jesus Christ could live His life in us. And living in us would…

Daily Light Devotional: Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105) April 21 2026 Text: 1 Corinthians 3:16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? Over the last few days, we have noted from scripture the privilege we have of the Holy Spirit living in us and working through us. And this is because, as 1 Corinthians 3:16 says – we are temples of the Holy…

Daily Light Devotional: Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105) April 20 2026 Text: 2 Peter 1:3 “By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.” Every believer knows that they are to “grow in the Lord”. “Growing in the…

Daily Light Devotional: Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105) April 17 2026 Text: Ephesians 3:20 (NLT) “Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.” There is a contemporary praise song (mainly for kids) that is titled – “Our God is a great BIG God”. And that is absolutely true – God is a great…

Daily Light Devotional: Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105) April 15 2026 Text: Philippians 4:13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength. An number of years ago, at a meeting with fellow clergy, I quoted this verse, “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength” (NKJV). One of the clergy said –“No you can’t”. We got into an argument. He said, “I may want to run a marathon, but there’s no…