Devotional Time with Rev. Jacob

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Zacharias, Ravi.  The Logic of God: 52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. [E-Book] Chapter 44: Imagination and the Will Opening Thought: I really enjoyed today’s reading because Zacharias tells us about his son who was trying to write a story. His son, being young, becomes distraught when he realizes the story must go in a way he did not wish it to go. It made him sad even thought it was his own imagination which demanded the pathways for the story, for it to be a good story. I can appreciate the story going in wa...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Zacharias, Ravi.  The Logic of God: 52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. [E-Book] Chapter 43: Scandal of the Cross Opening Thought: I always enjoy when things seem to reappear or repeat, like a thought or item being brought to your attention again and again, which gives the look of Godly intervention. A few days ago I spoke about the movie the Passion of the Christ, (click here to read devotional https://devotional-reverend.blogspot.com/2021/05/man-of-sorrow.html ), and here in today’s reading Ravi Zacharias brin...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Zacharias, Ravi.  The Logic of God: 52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. [E-Book] Chapter 42: Casting Stones Opening Thought: I will begin by sharing with you the second last line from Zacharias’ reading for today, “ The Judge of all the earth cannot be fooled by shades of meaning, nor was Christ obliterated by the shadows of death."  The one thing I have always found puzzling his how many people seem to think they can pull a fast-one on God. This usually happens when people lie to themselves to justify a be...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Zacharias, Ravi.  The Logic of God: 52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. [E-Book] Chapter 41: Man of Sorrow Opening Thought: A very profound reading from Zacharias today. He pulls attention to the nuance of sorrow. How sorrow can not only point us towards God but is in itself holy ground. Exceptionally large claim, but if you ever felt genuine sorrow there is something about it, it's not a place we would want to be, but it is also not something we think we should reject. Often when I conduct funerals, I will tell...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Zacharias, Ravi.  The Logic of God: 52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. [E-Book] Chapter 40: Regenerative Power Opening Thought: It seems that my week has a theme to it, since last Sunday the concept of truth has been bouncing around. Today’s reading puts the Christian worldview of truth juxtaposed to the secular-postmodern worldview where often truth is emasculated in service to the subjective. The reading got me thinking about my week, I was watching a television series recently, a new show which had come out ...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Zacharias, Ravi.  The Logic of God: 52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. [E-Book] Chapter 39: Portrait of a Soul Opening Thought: The trouble of having a soul is accountability. I think materialistic atheism is attractive to so many because there are no consequences. Not to say that every material atheist is a James Bond villain or something so diabolical, rather, if you do not believe there are consequences, all you must do is navigate through life with enough caution that you do not rustle too many feathers, a...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Zacharias, Ravi.  The Logic of God: 52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. [E-Book] Chapter 37: Right Where We Are Wrong Opening Thought: This past Sunday (May 16, 2021) I preach on the topic of truth. I believe that we must be seekers of truth to live a Christian life. During my sermon this last week I referred to another Christian apologist, Frank Turek, who will often challenge people on their willingness to seek truth by posing the question, “If Christianity were true, would you become a Christian?” To the tru...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Zacharias, Ravi.  The Logic of God: 52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. [E-Book] Chapter 37: The Books We Read Opening Thought: Interesting reflection piece for today. Zacharias imparts the value of the written word, in the Christian/Biblical sense but also with books in general. The scripture piece which marks this devotion for today tells us how the scriptures have a pragmatic use to them, they are there to train us in the behavior that believers should live by, like a how-to-guide. There is a varieties of be...