Category: Grow In Grace Notes Devotions

Dear Pastors, The Grace Notes devotions in 2024 will be based on verses from 1 Timothy.  As we salute a new year, let’s consider the Apostle Paul’s salutation to Timothy in the first pastoral epistle ...

Dear brothers, How often do you have a substantive and heartfelt conversation with someone? When you do, is it usually with someone your age? Is it sometimes with someone considerably younger or older? The author ...

Dear brothers in faith and ministry, fellow pilgrims, The songs of “goings up” are the largest grouping of psalms, found in Book V, psalms 120-134. “Goings up” has a great ring to it. It reminds ...

How is your pilgrimage going? The life of a pilgrim is not easy; in the wilderness many things can aggravate and annoy. Maybe that is why the Lord’s pilgrims like to sing. Psalm 84 is ...

Nathan once told David a story that made him angry at the evildoer. Then Nathan said, “You are the man!” In Matthew 18:21-35, Jesus tells the story of a man who was forgiven a humongous ...

One of the greatest joys of ministry is the knowledge that the Lord Jesus Christ is near. He is with us and in us. By his word and Spirit, he provides us with the strength ...

I pray your summer is going well. If you have a vegetable garden or an herb garden, how is it doing? All the readings appointed for Proper 10 (July 16, 2023) remind us that the ...

On Sunday, June 18, many of our churches will sing this setting of Psalm 100 from Christian Worship Psalter. Psalm 100 has two halves, and each half has two parts: encouragements/calls to do some things, ...

On the 6th Sunday of Easter many of our churches will sing this setting of Psalm 66.  “Let all the earth cry out to the LORD with joy!” Psalm 66 has three parts, focused on ...

One of the “occupational hazards” of being a pastor is that the preparations and leading of worship during Lent and Holy Week can become an obstacle to worship of the LORD during Lent and Holy ...