by April Cyr | May 4, 2021 | Devotions
Psalm 29:11 May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with peace! (ESV) I don’t know about you, but this last year has been the longest I’ve ever lived through. I’ve used up most of my energy trying to figure out ways to keep our church...
by April Cyr | Apr 13, 2021 | Devotions
Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. (NIV) Most of us were saddened by yesterday’s shooting at Austin East High School. Since the beginning of this year, four High School students in our city have been shot dead. We have a growing...
by April Cyr | Apr 6, 2021 | Devotions
Colossians 1:19-20 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (NIV) For some folks, Easter is a...
by April Cyr | Mar 24, 2021 | Devotions
Psalm 85:7 Show us your unfailing love, Lord, and grant us your salvation. (NIV) There’s something simply beautiful about the whole of Psalm 85. The writer tells of a time when the people of God were looking for forgiveness and mercy for the foolish and sinful...
by April Cyr | Mar 3, 2021 | Devotions
Ephesians 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved. (ESV) Do you ever lie awake at night and are unable to sleep...
by April Cyr | Feb 22, 2021 | Devotions
Psalm 25:5 “Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” (NIV) I love using my GPS (Satnav in the UK), especially when I’m traveling to a distant or new place. It takes the worry out of reaching my...
by April Cyr | Feb 17, 2021 | Devotions
Joel 2:12-13 “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he...
by April Cyr | Jan 28, 2021 | Devotions
1 Corinthians 10:23-24 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. No one should seek their own good, but the good of others. (NIV) Christianity has never...
by April Cyr | Jan 26, 2021 | Devotions
1 John 4:10-11 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (ESV) This is one of those verses in the Bible where you have to look...
by April Cyr | Jan 20, 2021 | Devotions
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. (NIV) Have you ever seen the old French film called ‘The Red Balloon’? It was made in Paris a year before I was born and tells the tale of a young boy who is befriended by a red...
