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 or photo to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 10: Be Precise In Your Speech, pp. 264 - 279 Opening Thought:  This summer, for our worship services, I have been reflecting upon the commandments of Jesus. Not just the very clear and well-known ones, but the commands that are interwoven into Jesus' wider teachings.  Recently we spoke about confronting those who have sinned against us or offended us. Confrontation is not something many Christians may associate with Jesus, b...

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 or photo to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 10: Be Precise In Your Speech, pp. 259-264 Opening Thought:  Every Monday I say to myself, I’m going to try to cover like 20 pages of Peterson’s work, in the hopes to keep a good pace each week. This hope is always derailed as Peterson covers so much in his pages. The density and connectivity of his authorship is a true gift which means all he says has purpose and meaning. This is a very appropriate introduction as Peterson’s tenth ru...

  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 or photo to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 9: Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t, pp. 245-256 Opening Thought:  A lot is covered in the final 11 pages of this section of 12 Rules. And, as I am still recovering from Hand Foot and Mouth, which my children were so kind to pass along to their father, my fingertips are not enjoying the continual tapping of keys as they normally do. So, for this week I’m going to try to condense a lot of ...