The Open Word e-Devotional
Published: Fri, 02/21/25
Updated: Fri, 02/21/25
Ed Dobson - A Christ Who Suffers Hello, I have to freely admit to you from the outset of today's e-Devotional; I hate to watch someone suffer physical…
Published: Thu, 02/20/25
Updated: Thu, 02/20/25
Hello, Today's Scripture: John 17:21 "that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the…
Published: Wed, 02/19/25
Updated: Wed, 02/19/25
Hello, Today's Scripture: Ephesians 2:19-22 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and…
Published: Tue, 02/18/25
Updated: Tue, 02/18/25
Hello, Today's Scripture: Ephesians 4:3-6 "...endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just…
Published: Mon, 02/17/25
Updated: Mon, 02/17/25
Hello, Today's Scripture: Proverbs 11:25 The generous soul will be made rich,And he who waters will also be watered himself. The story is told that…
Published: Sun, 02/16/25
Updated: Sun, 02/16/25
Hello, In his book "Why Prayers are Unanswered," John Lavender retells a story about Norman Vincent Peale. When Peale was a boy, he found a big, black…
Published: Sat, 02/15/25
Updated: Sat, 02/15/25
Hello, I heard a story once about an alcoholic who was converted, and someone asked him how he could possibly believe all the nonsense in the Bible…
Published: Fri, 02/14/25
Updated: Fri, 02/14/25
Hello, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have…
Published: Thu, 02/13/25
Updated: Thu, 02/13/25
Hello, Love can be such a nebulous term. We often throw it around in our conversations. Let me give you a few e amples: "Oh, I just LOVE that dress!"…
Published: Wed, 02/12/25
Updated: Wed, 02/12/25
Hello, The Greek word agape (love) seems to have been virtually a Christian invention -- a new word for a new thing (apart from about twenty…