By Bro. David Mathis

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.

David's Daily Devotion for July 17

July 17, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Friday, July 17.

“Speak to me, O Muse, of the man of twists and turns, driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.” These words are the first words of a very famous story. A story written by the Greek poet, Homer. A major epic that is, perhaps, the oldest surviving work of literature... “The Odyssey.”

David’s Daily Devotion for July 15

July 15, 2026 - Good Morning!  It’s Wednesday, July 15.

On July 15, 1798, a great mystery was solved.  Napoleon’s army had just invaded Egypt, when a French soldier stumbled upon an engraved stone in a town called Rosetta.  This “Rosetta Stone” would become the key to unlock the mystery of the ancient Egyptian language, a language that was born 4000 years before Bethlehem.

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