Tag: christianity
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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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What Will We Carry? Thoughts on the Gifts we present to Jesus.
What Will We Carry? A Devotional Reflection on the Wise Men Pastor Calvin Cook January 2, 2025 Each year at this same time we return to the story of the Wise Men. Travelers from afar who followed a star, carrying gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh were not random offerings. They were intentional, costly, and…
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Expectant for the Move of God – Happy 2026 New Year.
Expectant for the Move of God — A New Year Devotional As we step into a new year, my heart is filled with a sense of expectancy. Not a distant hope, not a wish whispered into the wind—but a confident belief that God is moving, here, now, and in the days ahead. I don’t want…
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A Light Breaks into the Darkness –
A Light Breaks Into the Darkness Pastor Calvin Cook December 30, 2025 Isaiah 60:1 — “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.” I am reflecting on our Advent and Christmas season this year, with new truths learned and hope, joy, and peace experienced through the presence…
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What Jesus Brought US
Here Is What the Birth of Jesus Brought Us From the heart of Pastor Calvin Cook December 23, 2025 I have been writing and thinking on this morning’s devotionals. Writing its words in the recesses and for fronts of my very being. It has been almost like a daily exercise of knowing, realizing, accepting and…
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A Better Way – A Better Presence – The way Forward through it all
A Better Way A Better Presence Pastor Calvin Cook December 17, 2025 In my nighttime devotions I was drawn to the familiar scripture often referred to in times of trouble from Isaiah 43. “But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: Do not fear, for…
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JOY IN THE MIDST OF SUFFERING –
Joy in the Midst of Suffering Pastor Calvin Cook, December 16, 2025 The last few weeks have been a very interesting time for me. From dealing with some of my own physical, mental, and spiritual battles while trying to understand the why, has brought me to the place I and all of us need to…
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FOUND – What once was lost now is found and there is great rejoicing.
Found Pastor Calvin Cook December 12, 2025 Here in the Allegheny National Forest, with it’s lake, streams, forest, hills, and valleys, it is not unusual to hear of hunters, backpackers, hikers, wilderness voyagers getting themselves turned around and losing their way. When we hear that someone is missing, there is always that sinking feeling that…
