Posts Tagged ‘Devotional’
Happy Anniversary Nicaean Creed!
Bill Reichart shares about the history of the Nicaean Creed and the importance of it in unifying the church.
Read MoreFinding Unity Thru Conflict
Bonhoeffer 4: Religionless Christianity
Mike Chupp, MD shares his final message about Bonhoeffer and his sometimes misunderstood idea of Religionless Christianity.
Read MoreThe Pride of Life
Bert Jones shares about how pride is the sin that is obvious in others but is so oblivious to ourselves.
Read MoreGet Back In The Ship
Rebecca Reynolds shares about Jesus letting Peter learn a lesson when He invited him to join Him walking on the water.
Read MoreBiblical Hope
Cut Flower Medicine
Grant Hewitt shares about the dangers of removing faith from the practice of medicine.
Read MoreChrist’s Ascension
Bill Reichart shares about the importance of Christ’s Ascension, that He wasn’t leaving us but being enthroned to reign and rule over all things.
Read MoreThe Events of Passion (Holy) Week
Gene Rudd, MD shares about the events and timing of the last week before Jesus’ cruxifixction.
Read MoreWhat To Do When Your World Is Turned Upside Down
David Stevens, MD shares about how God uses difficult times to grow us along with four strategies to see us through coming troubles.
Read MoreHumility
Jeff Barrows, DO shares about the 3 characteristics of humility and how we have to battle pride, insecurity and impatience to achieve it.
Read MoreThe Story of Us: Barabbas
Bert Jones shares how Jesus was placed on the center cross that had been reserved for Barabbas and muses on what our role in that swap would have been if we were there.
Read MoreBonhoeffer 3: Advocacy & the Church-Who Stands Firm?
Mike Chupp, MD shares how Bonhoeffer observed the Church in Germany and commented on their ultimate collapse in the battle between nation and God.
Read MoreLiving Life By and Thru The Spirit
Andrew Tooley shares how the Spirit gives us freedom to generously love other people.
Read MoreGrace
Proverbs and Prudence
Steve Sartori, MD shares from Proverbs four Principles of Making Wise Decisions.
Read MoreWhat The World Needs Now
Gene Rudd, MD takes a deep dive into the most famous verse in the Bible, John 3:16 and how it is God’s Valentine to the world.
Read MoreSaving Faith
Bill Reichart shares about the Lent season and how it can focus us on the importance of Easter.
Read MoreBut To Wait
Bert Jones shares from Acts 1:4-5 about benefits and blessings of waiting for God before beginning your mission.
Read MoreKeeping God in Control
Dr. Jeff Barrows shares about the television show The Chosen and how it can help us get a better representation of Christ’s interactions with his disciples as they struggled to understand the Kingdom He was bringing.
Read MoreOverlooking Offenses
Bert Jones shares from Luke 17 about the attitude we should take when we are offended.
Read MoreElijah’s Fainting Fits
Scott Price shares about how we look at the world with either eyes of faith or eyes of flesh and how one can lead to ministry victories and the other to depression.
Read MorePersonal Testimony of Dr. Brick Lantz
Dr. Brick Lantz shares his personal story of how the Lord led him to become the new CMDA Vice President of Bioethics and Public Policy.
Read MoreGrace in the Workplace
Scott Ledford shares about how we should interact with our coworkers and how we receive the grace we extend to others.
Read MoreThe Power of Obedience & Unity
Jeff Radford shares from Acts 2 and his personal history how the power of the Lord is magnified when we obey and work as one.
Read MoreThe Triumph of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Grace & Discipleship
Mike Chupp, MD continues in his series about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and lessons we can apply to our walk of faith today.
Read MoreDon’t Let Fear Overtake Courage
Connie Fox shares about Courage and how we need to prepare ourselves to act with courage when unexpected opportunities to witness come along.
Read MoreTrusting God in Difficult Times
David Stevens, MD shares from his life about Trusting God in Difficult Times and the ways He has been faithful.
Read MoreWhat Do You Say Is The Gospel?
Bill Reichart asks What is the Gospel and what are the six stages we go thru in it?
Read MoreRefiners Fire
Benjamin Kisoni shares from Romans 8:28-29 about how his personal experiences have shapes his ministry.
Read MoreIntegrity Matters
Mike Chupp, MD shares about how integrity matters in leadership plus our everyday witness to the world.
Read MoreTale of Two Sacrifices
Bill Griffin, DDS shares about how the act of faith isn’t the important thing, it is the object of our faith that matters most.
Read MoreFollowing Christ
Bert Jones shares about what it really means & costs to follow Jesus plus explains the difference between finding Christ and following Him.
Read MoreStop Signs in Scripture
Bert Jones shares about the warnings in scripture when God tells us to stop doing things that take us away from the path He has prepared for us.
Read MoreHistory of Christian Revivals
Gene Rudd, MD shares about the history of revivals in the Christian church and explores the notion of a formula to get revival to happen.
Read MoreHoly Spirit
Jeff Barrows, DO shares about the Holy Spirit being the person most responsible for our spiritual development outside of ourselves.
Read MoreAnchored in Hope pt.3
Bill Reichart shares about Hope in the Lord pointing to a better future where all things are set right.
Read MoreSpiritual War
Michael Booker shares from Ephesians 6:10-12 about unwavering commitment to prayer and our mission are our best weapons in our sinful fallen world.
Read MoreCritical Care
Hebrews: Better, Believe, Beware
John Pierce, MD shares from Hebrews 12:7-17 about the three themes of Better, Believe and Beware.
Read MoreContentment
Bert Jones shares about how contentment is not something earned but learned when you are satisfied with what has been provided to you.
Read MoreAnxiety
Bert Jones shares about our society full of anxiety and how we can overcome it.
Read MoreHow To Be Successful From God’s Perspective
David Stevens, MD shares about the seven attributes you need to be successful from God’s perspective.
Read MoreFlying in Enemy Territory
Gene Rudd, MD shares about winning the battle to overcome temptations by being disciplined and having your life filled with things of God.
Read MoreSeeing It All Make Sense in Reverse
Alexander Whitaker shares about the power of hindsight and how we must move forward in faith that God has a plan for us.
Read MoreDesiring Humility
Mike Chupp, MD shares about one of CMDA’s aspirational values and how only God knows if we are truly humble.
Read MoreMarveling at His Mercy
Mike Chupp, MD shares about his recent GHO trip to Guatemala and the powerful ways the Lord showed up on the trip.
Read MoreThe Power of the Gospel: The Life
In the third part of his series on the Power of the Gospel, Bill Griffin shares about The Life that Christ offers us-both earthly and eternal.
Read MoreEclipse: Divine Design or Divine Sign?
In light of the recent solar eclipse, Pastor Bert Jones shares multiple celestial events recorded in the Bible and offers a fresh way to view them.
Read MoreHow To Have A Happy Life
Lessons from Pilgrim’s Progress: Doubting Castle and Giant Despair
Ian Baumgardner shares from Psalms 42 and Pilgrim’s Progress to give us strategies for overcoming Despair.
Read MoreFaithfulness
David Stevens, MD shares about the faithfulness of God and the ways we should be faithful to Him.
Read MoreIdentity
Jeff Barrows, DO shares about how we see ourselves and from Whom we should get our identities.
Read MoreThe Physical Suffering and Death of Christ
Gene Rudd, MD shares about what Jesus went through both before and while on the Cross that led to His death.
Read MoreThe Truth-General and Special Revelation
Bill Griffin, DDS, share from John 14:6 about how Jesus connects us to God along with the difference between General and Special Revelations.
Read MoreIf
Gene Rudd, MD continues his series on God’ Will as he points out that action is required by us to get to where God wants us to be.
Read MoreAnchored In Hope
Bill Reichart shares about our Biblical Hope and the three components that must be grasped.
Read MoreThe Power of the Gospel
Bill Griffin, DDS, shares about the Power of the Gospel in our lives and realizing just how Good the Good News is!
Read MoreDream Brave
Dr. Wai Jia Tam shares from her book Dream Brave and how God’s dreams for us are way better than ours.
Read MoreWhere’s My Awe?
Trish Burgess, MD shares how we can draw closer to Jesus and how He cast a new vision for those who are awed by self.
Read More12 Deceptions About Discipleship
Bert Jones shares from Matt. 28:19-20 about how we are to make disciples, not converts as we are in the process of becoming who Jesus would be if He were you.
Read MoreKnowing God’s Will
Gene Rudd, MD shares from Psalm 19 about how knowing God and His word are the key to understanding His will for us.
Read MoreWhat Is The Gospel?
Alan Waldecker shares from I Thessalonians 1 about how we must examine our beliefs about the Gospel to determine if we are we following the authentic truth or a counterfeit belief.
Read MoreWhat Are You Willing To Invest In The Kingdom?
Eric Fields shares from Galatians 6 about how we have to invest our time, money and talents now to reap a harvest for the Lord in the future.
Read MoreReflection on Rejection
Bert Jones from John 1 and asks “How did Jesus handle rejection?” and what lessons we can learn for our lives.
Read MoreQuenching Flaming Darts
Jeff Barrows, DO shares about some of the most common strategies the Enemy uses against Christians in Spiritual Warfare.
Read MoreCertainties of 2024
Allen Davis shares with us from Philippians 3 about the promises of scripture that we can depend on in this new year.
Read MoreChristmas Where You Least Expect To Find It
Bert Jones takes us away from the usual Christmas story found in the Gospels to the many other scriptures in both the Old and New Testaments that point to the Redemption Plan of God and Christ’s coming.
Read MoreMindful of Emmanuel
Gene Rudd, MD admonishes us to be aware of Christ in our lives and poses the Christmas question of “What gift does Jesus want from you?” this year.
Read MoreGetting the House Ready for Christmas
Stan Hill shares about the Wise Men from the Christmas Story and lessons we can learn from their journey.
Read MoreSecret Sin
Bert Jones shares from Proverbs 20:27 about overcoming the theology of “God Can’t See or Know My Hidden Sins”.
Read MorePassages That Shaped My Spiritual Journey
Bill Reichart shares some of the scriptures that have formed his spiritual life and journey.
Read MoreJesus Christ’s Unwavering Call
Peter Saunders, MD shares about the International Christian Medical and Dental Association and how it is answering Jesus’ Unwavering Call.
Read MoreWho Is Your Director?
David Stevens, MD shares from Leviticus 20:7 about how we are called to go out and be holy as we are completely devoted to God.
Read MoreKind Words
Bert Jones shares about how our words flow from our hearts that can bring healing or harm.
Read MoreUnity: Managing the Matters that Matter
Sabbath
Matt Morrell shares about Sabbath and the importance of resting & listening to God.
Read MorePrescriptions for Encouragement
Phillip Claybrook, MD shares about when God asks “What will you do with the suffering I’ve given you?”.
Read MoreAppreciating the Awesome Nature of God
Mike Chupp, MD shares about the Awesome Nature of God as he concludes his five part chapel series.
Read MoreMarked by Joy
Chase Bartlett shares about how we are called to be joyful and that our partnership in the Gospel should bring us joy.
Read MoreSide By Side
Rebecca Layman shares about CMDA’s Side By Side ministry and what the Lord has been teaching her since taking over their leadership.
Read MoreWhat is God Doing?
Dave McAuley shares from Job 42 about understanding that the plans of God are always good but not always known.
Read MoreRestoration In Kenya
Dr. Caren Abraham shares about starting a dental clinic on the mission field in Kenya.
Read MoreRestoration
Gene Rudd, MD shares about the process of restoration involved for all who sin in the church but especially for leaders.
Read MoreIn The Fear of God
Michael Booker shares from II Corinthians 1 about unlocking the promises of God by discovering a Holy Awe of God.
Read MorePOWs-Prisoners of Worry
Scott Price shares about how the God of Peace commands us not to worry and offers steps to being able to drive worry away.
Read MoreWhen God Intervenes
David Stevens, MD share about how God doesn’t ask us to be successful but faithful and how the Lord has worked in his life to prepare him for a lifetime of ministry.
Read MoreThorns
Bert Jones shares from Acts 7:30-35 about thorns in our world being the result of the fall and how they can choke the life out of us.
Read MoreBe Reconciled
Bert Jones shares from Matt. 5:21-26 about our need to concede to proceed to the process of reconciliation.
Read MoreWisdom
David Stevens, MD share about how we can search God’s word and follow the Bible’s moral code to gain wisdom.
Read MoreThe Most Important Decision
Jeff Barrows, DO asks the question “What does it mean to follow Jesus?” and shares the characteristics we should demonstrate in our walk with the Lord.
Read MoreThe Fullness of Time
Gene Rudd, MD shares about why Jesus came when He did and the ways God moved in history to prepare the world for our Savior’s arrival.
Read MoreCitizens of God’s Kingdom
Alan Waldecker shares from Matt. 6 about how we are designed for intimacy with God and how, in our fallen world, we have to strive to make Him the core source of our identity.
Read MoreSpeaking Comfort to Those in Loss
Eric Fields shares from Psalm 23 about our Good Shepard and how we can find comfort from God in our times of loss.
Read MoreMAF Testimony
Dean Davison shares about his time with MAF and the unusual ministry path the Lord has led him on.
Read MorePsychological Safety
Bill Reichart shares about Psychological Safety and how the object of our trust should be Christ.
Read MoreYokes
David Stevens, MD shares about the purpose of yokes and how we are not working alone when we are yoked together with Christ.
Read MoreDoubting Our Way To Glory
Gene Rudd, MD shares about doubts, that we all have them but need to deal with them as they hinder our relationship with God.
Read MoreOperation Christmas Child
Alex from Rwanda shares about the impact receiving a Operation Christmas Child shoebox had on him and how we can amplify that impact to other children around the world.
Read MoreWandering in the Land of Nod
Gene Rudd, MD shares about how we can wander in a desert until we learn what the Lord is trying to teach us.
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