Click here to listen to today’s devotional Psalm 121 I’m not sold on it yet, but Psalm 121 has me considering putting up a billboard for my church. I’ve thought about it for weeks as I travel over the highest point in town. When you reach our bridge, two digital billboards rise into view and grab your attention. I’ve wondered whether displaying an invitation on one of them would be worthwhile. After all, as you climb the bridge, you have to look up to see them. Why not see a message from our church? That may connect with one reading of this well-known psalm of ascent. The joyful traveler is making the uphill journey toward the sanctuary of God. Along the way, he sees the surrounding hills. Some may have held rival places of worship, each offering its own god, its own promise, and its own invitation. So, the traveler looks at the hills and asks, “From where will my help come?” Then comes his answer: “My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” The hills may advertise ...
Click here to listen to today’s devotional Check Your Inbox September 4, 2026 Romans 10:15-21 I have an old backup email account that’s mostly subscriptions. There are newsletters, promotions, updates, and who knows what else I signed up for twenty years ago--it's a Hotmail account, after all. Thousands of emails can pile up. For the longest time, I would scan through them before deleting anything. Because what if I missed something? Only recently did I decide it wasn’t worth it. Now, I select them all and hit delete. Every one of those emails was delivered. But delivered doesn’t mean read. I wonder how often that’s true of what God is trying to tell me. In Romans 10, Paul asks, “have they not heard?” His answer is yes, God's good news had gone out. But hearing isn’t the same as listening. You can hear something and not really hear it. Not really receive it. You know that. You can sit through a sermon, sing a hymn, hear the same nudging from God again and again, and still men...