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Is Everything Crumbling – Pray – Not From the Edges – From the Center of God’s Will –
GOD SPEAKING DEVOTIONAL – #5 God’s call to Prayer Pastor Calvin Cook January 23, 2026 Scripture – In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27 And he who…
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The Way of Holiness – Following Jesus From the Edges
GOD SPEAKING DEVOTIONAL #4 The way of Holiness – Pastor Calvin Cook January 22, 2026 Scripture: Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.17 Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. Isaiah…
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Hearing Jesus in the snow storm – Speaking Peace – Devotionals From the Edges.
GOD’S WAY DEVOTIONAL – #3 Following Jesus From the Edges GOD SPEAKING – “PEACE” Pastor Calvin Cook January 21, 2026 Scripture – “And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” Mark 4:39 (ESV) Today as we focus on…
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Devotionals on God’s Way – Today – God Desiring Relationship.
GOD’S WAY DEVOTIONAL – #2 Following Jesus From the Edges GOD’S RELATIONSHIP Pastor Calvin Cook January 20, 2026 Focusing on a series of devotionals and journaling, asking the question “Am I doing, living into what God wants or what I want?” “Am I doing what others expect of me or what God is expecting of…
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God’s Way – Devotional’s From the Edges asking what next?
God’s Way Pastor Calvin Cook January 19, 2025 An Introduction to asking is this what God is desiring? Scripture: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11) Big deep breath this morning…
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Really God? This is what You are saying? A Devotional on Carrying Burdens and Figuring It Out.
REALLY GOD? THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING? A Devotional on Carrying Burdens and Figuring it Out Pastor Calvin Cook January 16, 2026 I preface this devotional once again with the reason for these devotionals. I write these devotionals to myself and share them to a very wide audience now. Sometimes as I write I…
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Coming Home – A reflection “From the Edges” on longing, Repentance, and Grace.
Coming Home A Devotional Reflection on Longing, Repentance, and Grace Pastor Calvin Cook – January 15, 2026 Sorry for my absence for the last couple of days. But it has been a couple of days of reflection while trying to recuperate from this mid-winter sinus infection and praying for clarity of mind. During the last…
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I Will – I Did –
I Will. I Did. Pastor Calvin Cook January 12, 2026 A Devotional on Faithfulness, Follow-Through, and Living What We Say In the words of Jesus : “Let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’” Matthew 5:37 (NIV) As I begin this morning in my devotional time, I was drawn to my journal and my…
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AFTER THIS THE SHIELD – Following Jesus From Edges – Devotional
After this the Shield Pastor Calvin Cook January 9, 2026 Why am I where I am today with my thoughts? I received a question from a reader asking how I focus these thoughts each morning and how most times they are varied. There is a long answer to the question but most recently it has…
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Stepping Into God’s Story.
Stepping Into God’s Story A Devotional from David and Goliath Pastor Calvin Cook, January 8, 2026 Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:45–47 (NIV) : “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty… For the battle is the Lord’s.” I love how the Holy…
Thoughts from the Edges 