Our devotional reading was originally printed in The Church from Age to Age, and the hymn text is attributed to St. Patrick.

I love the Psalms.

When my heart is heavy, when my spirit is light, when I don’t know what in the world God is doing in my life, I turn to the Psalms.

I yelled at God.

Our devotion, from Moses and the Bronze Snake: Arch Books, focuses on this Sunday’s Old Testament Reading.

Today’s devotion focuses on the Gospel of the day and is from Portals of Prayer.

We focus on the Epistle today with an excerpt from Reading Romans with Luther.

Read the Book of Job with these free study helps. You’ll find comfort in God’s message of grace, knowing that He has not turned against you, nor is He punishing you for your sins. Cling to your Redeemer—He will sustain you in the midst of suffering.

This past weekend, I had my first snow day as a teacher. It was one that we were all highly anticipating after hearing the menacing forecast of eight to twelve inches of snow. Sure enough, the night before the expected snowstorm, we received a phone call canceling school, giving us a long weekend.

When we look at research, it usually feels like an overwhelming mass of information. Recently, Barna came out with a new body of research on Generation Z, people who were born between 1999 and 2015. I looked at the research, and my first thought was, “There are over a hundred pages here!”

Each evening after dinner, our whole family would clear the dishes and gather again at the table for family devotions.