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Christian Devotional – April 16, 2026
What Makes A Good Leader, Day 4 Are you a good teacher? Read Titus 2:1-10. Do you enjoy the idea of being a teacher? Recently, I have made a career shift and am now focusing on being a teacher. I use this YouTube channel is a way to teach others about the truths of the Bible. And, I also teach high school students a variety of subjects. Plus, I coach middle school athletes in the sport of track and field. Moving into doing this on a more regular basis has been an interesting transition. I’ve gotten to know several amazing teachers. Now, not all teachers are created equally. Great teachers…
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Christian Devotional – April 15, 2026
What Makes A Good Leader, Day 3 Providing Correction. Read Titus 1:10-16. Yesterday I mentioned that I’ve spent a lot of time in the corporate world, specifically in the human resources. The most challenging topic to help managers and leaders deal with comes when discussion providing critical feedback. Leaders can often really struggle to find ways to give that kind of critical feedback, and unfortunately, what that can typically mean is that they don’t give that feedback until something major has happened and they have no choice. By that time, the person receiving the feedback may have gone too far and really done something they shouldn’t have. Yesterday, we saw…
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Christian Devotional – April 14, 2026
What Makes A Good Leader, Day 2 The List of Dos and Dont’s. Read Titus 1:6-9. I’ve worked in the field of Human Resources for many years and recruiting and hiring has been a significant part of my responsibilities over the years. I’ve seen many different approaches to hiring people through the years. One of the key approaches that people tend to favor is more of the checklist style approach. We have a list of qualities and characteristics that we want (and don’t want) in a prospective candidate. Then, the application and interview processes are designed around that list in order to help clarify which candidate is going to fulfill…
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Christian Devotional – April 13, 2026
What Makes A Good Leader? Day 1 Choose Good Leaders. Read Titus 1:1-5. If you walk through the leadership section of any bookstore, you will see shelf after shelf of books detailing the qualities and characteristics of what makes a good leader. There are books that describe leadership, books that explain what leadership does and how they act. There are books that teach how to become a good leader. We have no shortage of “how-to” book on this subject. And yet, we seem to constantly be lacking good leaders. You just have to look at the workplace to see multiple people upset and complaining about their leaders. So, even with…
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Christian Devotional – April 12, 2026
Change of Plans, Day 14 Sometimes a change of plans begins with a change of heart. Read Hosea chapter 14. Today wraps up this series through the book of Hosea. Here, we see that God has continued working with the people and drawing them to himself, and they have had a change of heart. They are seeking repentance they’re coming back to God. You see having a change of plans is really about allowing God to change our hearts. Having a change of heart and recognizing who God is and what God has done is going to allow us the opportunity to experience God’s forgiveness. Are we enjoying the redemption…
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Christian Devotional – April 11, 2026
Change of Plans, Day 13 Are you satisfied? Read Hosea chapter 13. My husband is a pastor and together we have been in ministry for almost 30 years. We have a passion for discipleship and seeing people live out their Christian faith daily. In many cases, the people that we have seen the most growth and excitement in have come from those who are not satisfied. Maybe they weren’t satisfied with their marriage, or with their family. Maybe they weren’t satisfied with their prayer life or their Bible reading. Maybe they weren’t satisfied with life in general. Those people were the people that were willing to make changes and to…
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Christian Devotional – April 10, 2026
Change of Plans, Day 12 Return, Maintain, and Wait. Read Hosea chapter 12. Often, we tend to really like checklists. We want a list of what we need to get done and accomplish so that we can feel like we have succeeded. When we look at all that God is asking of us, it can be really hard to boil it down to just a checklist. At the end of the day, we are simply to commit our whole self to him. When we think about what does that look like on a regular basis, this verse gives us some ideas that we can add to our daily practice. We…
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Christian Devotional – April 9, 2026
Change of Plans, Day 11 Why do we desire to rebel? Read Hosea chapter 11. I used to know an athlete who really liked people to tell her that she couldn’t do something. She would get upset and use that anger to push her to excel and exceed in that very thing. She wanted to prove the person wrong. I’ve also known plenty of teenagers who delighted in doing the exact opposite of what their parents asked them to do. It didn’t even matter if they had originally wanted to do something in the first place. The very fact that their parents wanted them to do it meant that they…
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Christian Devotional – April 8, 2026
Change of Plans, Day 10 Can you trust your plans? Read Hosea chapter 10. When someone promises you something, do you believe them? We talk a lot about the idea of integrity, but when it comes to plans, that can be especially important. Do you follow through on the plans that you make? We see here that the people of Israel were not good at all at following through. Apparently, they made all kinds of promises that they never intended to keep. This was happening to each other and was resulting in lawsuits and arguments and problems for so many people. If we are following God, then we will keep…
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Christian Devotional – April 7, 2026
Change of Plans, Day 9 Rejection. Read Hosea chapter 9. We strive so hard to avoid rejection. So many parts of our makeup include ways in which we can identify, understand, and resolve situations where people don’t like us. We want to feel validated by others. God wants the people to understand that because of the way they’ve been acting, he does reject them and all that they are. That’s a harsh statement and can be a difficult reality to understand and accept. God is not a God of tolerance. God is not a God of total acceptance. There is a standard that God requires and for those who don’t…