By Bro. David Mathis

David's Daily Devotion for July 31

July 31, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Friday, July 31.

We say goodbye today to a month named after Julius Caesar, and stand on the threshold of a month named for another Caesar called Augustus. The Roman Emperors of old are still very present in our modern culture. And they were certainly very present in the time of the New Testament. Julius Caesar reigned about 40 years before Bethlehem, during the period between the Testaments. But we find the name Augustus in the second chapter of the gospel of Luke.

David's Daily Devotion for July 30

July 30, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Thursday, July 30.

I hate to run. I hate running. I’ve always hated running. I just don’t see the point. And have you ever looked at the face of someone who’s running? Do they look happy? They do not. They look miserable. And you know why? Because they’re running! If you see me running down the street, you may safely assume that somebody’s chasing me - somebody big.

David's Daily Devotion for July 29

July 29, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Wednesday, July 29.

This time of year my mind often travels back to a hot summer night in late July of 1969. I was twelve, and my family had driven up from Houston to spend a week at my grandfather’s East Texas lake house - a cabin just 15 minutes from where I live now. At about 9:30 that night, we were all huddled around an ancient little black and white TV, watching a young man named Neil... step out onto the surface of the moon. 

David's Daily Devotion for July 22

July 22, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Wednesday, July 22.

As a father, I am painfully aware of the extremely low esteem given to “dad jokes.” On the comedy spectrum they have been relegated to a position somewhere below “knock-knocks.” This is a situation that is both unfair and hurtful, and just one more example of the countless injustices that we fathers must bear (with selfless grace). As a minister, I am also aware that, when it comes to humor, “church jokes” don’t fare much better. So, lower your expectations, here we go... because sometimes you just gotta laugh!

David's Daily Devotion for July 20

July 20, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, July 20.

The church I worked at yesterday is sending their youth to camp today - on a bus. That news brought back some memories. I can’t begin to count the number of miles I’ve logged over the years on church buses. Mission trips, choir tours, youth camps - it’s probably greater than the distance from the earth to the moon! Many of the early trips, before the “turn of the century”, were on old-school, school buses. The kind with hard bench seats and air conditioning that consisted of sliding down the windows.

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