At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. (Matthew 27:51-52) Did you read about it? Larry King of Larry King Live fame wants to be frozen so he can come back and have doctors fix whatever it was that caused his death. In a television special, Dinner with King, he said, “I wanna be frozen, on […]

“But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” (Psalm 22:3) A note from Mike: My website, devotions.com, features over 600 devotions and over a year’s time, these 600 devotions are read almost 1 million times a year. This devotion is the #1 devotion on my website, and why not. Its message is eternal. If you go to church with any regularity, you may have heard your music minister say, “God inhabits the praises of his people”. I always thought that statement was nothing more […]

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” (Exodus 20:17) Now that Black Friday is behind us, I’d like to take a brief pause from Christmas to explore an important spiritual truth. It may very well change the way we think about the Christmas season. Christmas is a season when we often have trouble distinguishing our wants from our needs, but that shouldn’t come as […]

“Let us come before him with thanksgiving.” (Psalm 95:2) Satan has a stronghold on Thanksgiving. Have you noticed? Retail merchants don’t play it up anymore like they did when I was a kid. They skip right by Thanksgiving and go from Halloween to Christmas. In fact, many of them don’t even close on Thanksgiving Thursday, denying their own employees the opportunity to pause and reflect on the blessings of life. There’s simply too much money to be made on Christmas for them to stop and acknowledge Thanksgiving. History […]