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“Great Day” Wednesday 05/13/2026*
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The Chapel Quotes
“When we go outside of our houses there are real challenges. There are people groups that worship false gods that we can be drawn into. If you don’t prioritize faith at home, to love God and put out reminders to do it constantly, it’s going to be a real struggle. What are the idols in our lives? One of the acceptable idolatries of our age is family. If your value rises and falls with their performance, with their status, if your theology bends to accommodate their conduct. Faith at home doesn’t mean loving your family needs to become less, but it does mean making sure that you love Jesus the most.”
“Everything that happens in this world is going to be measured by the one name of Jesus. It will place tension on the closest of relationships. Jesus demands our total allegiance. Jesus must be infinitely important. It means choosing obedience over approval, finding value in being a child of God, and expressing convictions over compromise. Faithfulness over time speaks much louder than shouting the truth. Invite but don’t insist.”
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“Christian Stylings In Ivory” by composer-musician Don Krueger
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Devotion 05/10/2026
Our Devotion, “Easing the Burden” is by Amy L. Green, a professional writing major at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, and a freelance writer for Church Libraries, Plays, Christian Communicator, The Secret Place, and Christian Book Previews.
After a heavy Midwest ice storm, the effects of the bad weather are easy to see: deep snow covered with a thin sheen of ice. Looking closer, you will notice that the frozen conditions have also affected many of the trees. It’s a common sight to see pines, aspens, and even strong oaks groaning and bending from the added weight of a coating of ice and snow.
Those who are going through a difficult time in their lives may feel like these trees: cold, weary, and bent over from a burden of sorrow or grief. Christ’s words in Matthew 11:28 offer hope: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” God does not take us out of this cold, harsh world, but He promises to be with us and help us through hard times.
Even if you are experiencing a time of blessing and prosperity, you have a responsibility to those around you who are suffering. As it says in Galatians 6:2, “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” Don’t let those who have been battered by the storms of life fade into the background.
Book Review 05/13/2026
This Book Review is by Elizabeth Hartmann, a professional writing major at Taylor University.
Crossing the Waters: Following Jesus through the Storm, the Fish, the Doubt, and the Seas.
By Leslie Leyland Fields
NavPress, PB, 234 pages
Follow me.” How will you answer? Jesus’ words cut deep, changing lives. Following Jesus looks different for everyone. For the disciples it meant dropping their nets and abandoning their fishing boats, but for Leslie Leyland Fields, 2,000 years later, it meant she had to move to Alaska, pick up fishing nets, and learn to sail on stormy seas. What God called one away from, he called another to embrace.
Crossing the Waters puts you, the reader, in a wildly rocking boat buffeted by waves of doubt, fear, and trials. Salt water stings your cheeks, and the smell of fish and kelp clogs your nostrils as Fields whizzes you around on adventures from the oceans of Alaska to the Sea of Galilee. The questions of how you drop everything and immediately follow Christ and how you reconcile the tragedies and suffering of this world with God’s goodness are addressed in this memoir. But when the thunder crackles across the sky and the wind whips the waters into leaping waves, committing to follow Christ through the storms of life becomes more difficult than ever.
In this creative memoir Fields uses her experiences in commercial fishing to give a fresh look at the motivation and truth behind biblical miracles, such as bursting nets, stormy seas, and even walking on water. She re-imagines biblical scenes, examining Peter stepping out onto the waves, discussing the disciples leaving their nets, and asking why they were so quick to doubt. She views these familiar passages in a new, often contrasting light. But the angle she uses to look at the gospels is not limited to seaweed and salmon, for she also uses Hebrew words and culture to explain the trials of following Christ. From standing on the banks of the greasy, polluted Jordan River to facing the thrashing waves of the icy Pacific, Fields shares the dramatic way water changes lives as she grapples with following Jesus.
Review used by permission of Evangelical Church Library Association (ECLA)
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