Weekly Devotions Header 2024

These devotions are targeted specifically for you, the healthcare professional, and the challenges unique to you that you face on a day-to-day basis. You can sign-up here to receive these devotions through a weekly email or you can come back to this page to read the weekly devotion online. We hope you are encouraged and inspired by them, and that you can gain insight and wisdom from others who have gone through the same challenges that you face in the healthcare industry today.

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him" (James 1:5, KJV).

The Pain of Second Chances

By Al Weir, MD | September 17, 2024

“The Lord said to me, ‘Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress…’” (Hosea 3:1, NIV).

Desert Ridges

By Al Weir, MD | September 11, 2024

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?” (Job 38:4a, NIV).

Friction

By Al Weir, MD | September 3, 2024

When we struggle, a painful friction changes us, and the change provides new opportunities for His glory.

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The Real You Inside

By Al Weir, MD | August 27, 2024

“I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens” (Ezra 9:6, NIV).

Naturally Sticky

By Al Weir, MD | August 20, 2024

On the last day of our Spring Canyon vacation with most of our children and all our grandchildren, after the adult time of worship and spiritual message, my son and his wife went to collect their two children from the children’s program.

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Forevermore

By Al Weir, MD | August 13, 2024

My wife and I chose to use our vacation money this year to invite our kids and grandkids to a Christian ranch in Colorado. Today we were gathered in a worship service at Spring Canyon Ranch, where the hook of Mount Princeton is rising in the distance

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A Question of Place

By Al Weir, MD | August 6, 2024

I have been managing his prostate cancer for 10 years. During that time, his wife left him and all his children moved elsewhere. He loves the Lord deeply. His sister wants him to come live with her in Texas. His daughter wants him to come and live with her in Alabama.

Clean Evangelism

By Al Weir, MD | July 30, 2024

Last Sunday I looked to the choir loft of my local church and spotted a man whose father I knew when I served in Nigeria as a medical missionary. Today, I found my diary and located my account of his father:

Circus in Town

By Al Weir, MD | July 23, 2024

My faith, that hope grounded in certainty, was not imagined by a heartfelt desire. It was fully grounded on the character, capacity and commitment of my father.

See You Later

By Al Weir, MD | July 16, 2024

“‘O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:55-57, ESV).

Steadfast

By Al Weir, MD | July 9, 2024

“Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves…” (Ephesians 4:14, NIV).

The Big Gamble

By Al Weir, MD | July 2, 2024

“…I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day” (2 Timothy 1:12, NIV).