Devotionals

By Paula Frances Price
GETTING STARTED

During the summer as you ran around on your study abroad and worked at your dream internship, did you ever feel like you were pretending to be an adult? Maybe you were a camp counselor leading children or maybe you worked in retail earning money for tuition. Regardless of what you were doing, summer is usually a time where we are trying new things, learning about who we are and learning just how wise we think we are. It's an experience that we try to carry over with us as we go back to school in the fall. 

By Tyler Riffe
PHILIPPIANS 2:3-11

3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 

READ JOHN 6:66-69

66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.

68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”

READ PSALM 130: 1-4

1 Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;

2 Lord, hear my voice.

Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.

Read LUKE 4: 18-21

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,

because he has anointed me

to proclaim good news to the poor.

By Kathleen North
Read Psalm 150

Read the Psalm twice, noticing the repetition and imagine the scene as it unfolds. 

1 Praise the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary;

By Dusty Harrison
Read: Hebrews 10: 11-12, 14 
By Alison Smith

Think about your summer job/internship/classes and your motivation toward them. What do you enjoy about it? What do you dislike?

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