40 Days 2023

How often do we come to things with a childlike approach and a childlike comprehension? Ellen White once attempted to describe the correlation of childlikeness and the Lord’s Prayer when she penned: “As one with humanity, He (the Saviour) presents His own ideal of...

Like many homes, my parents gifted my sister and me the responsibility of doing chores around the house growing up. These chores ranged from vacuuming to taking out the trash, plus many others. We would usually do these tasks together, and when I look back, some of my...

            When I was in college, I worked at an Adventist summer camp each year to help with paying for my tuition. Each morning, we would have staff worship, where one of the staff would share a devotional thought to kick us off for the day. On one of the mornings,...

I was 21, had recently graduated from La Sierra University, and was serving at my first church as an assistant pastor. They were in their early 80s and had served the church as a ministerial couple for almost three times as long as I had been alive. Having no...