Bishop Robert 
One thing I learned in the US Marines was this – it doesn’t always matter HOW BIG your team is. What matters is WHO is on your team, their level of commitment, training and determination. One of the symbols of the Marine Corps is a snarling bulldog. The bulldog is not the largest of canines, … Read more
In Israel they’ve got the most amazing keys. For the most part, keys in the United States are a pretty boring affair, and that seems to be the case for most parts of the world to which I’ve travelled. They’re flat along the bottom, and have some sort of an up-and-down pattern across the top … Read more
Wiki articles exist for every topic imaginable. There is even a wiki article on “How to Attend to a Stab Wound.” For those of you reading a translated version of this devotional, the article is not speaking about booking a ticket to see someone being stabbed. The wiki explains how one ought to care for … Read more
Today I’m going to write a love letter. Actually, two. “Love at first sight” has struck me TWICE in my life. The first time was when I was teaching a bible study. As it happened, that was the week I was beginning a study of the Book of James. You may wonder how I might … Read more
I am sitting in a safe and comfortable hotel in Turkey. I have everything I need at my fingertips. A coffee machine. My bible. (OK, perhaps I should have reversed those.) A comfortable bed — with PILLOWS !!! (I love pillows.) A small refrigerator to chill the water bottles they deliver everyday. Every morning I … Read more
That’s NOT a statement that one hears often! To be clear, I’m using that phrase as an attention getter and a key illustration. I most certainly do not have more than one wife. I have ONLY one wife. More to the point, the wife I have is utterly amazing, loves me with all her heart, … Read more
Imagine you own a nice automobile. One morning you go out to your car, hop in, pop the key in the ignition and start it up. So far, so good. But what if you put it in drive, and then had to GUESS which direction the car would move! Imagine if some days your car … Read more
Determination is the essence of success. There are very few things of real value which can be obtained with minimal cost or effort. In order to fulfill your potential in any endeavor, you must be willing to do two critical things:1 – Count the cost, and2 – Give everything you have to give towards accomplishing … Read more
I love to sing. I enjoy creating harmonies in my mind and then trying them out with my voice. Depending upon who is nearby when I sing, I’ve been told both that my voice is wonderful AND ALSO that my voice is horrible. Beauty, I am told, is in the eye of the beholder. Perhaps … Read more
There’s an important principle I want to develop from yesterday’s devotional (WOUNDED, BUT BETTER NOW) that I couldn’t give the attention it needed due to space constraints. So I want to do that today. While discussing the time I had been wounded I wrote, “I had to totally hide it. (Only my wife knew.) I … Read more
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