David Sandel

Thursday, May 30, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Via et veritas et vita Once you were no people, but now you are God’s people. Is the man blind? Yes, he has been blind and is blind and will always be blind. Jesus, son of God, have mercy on me!...

Wednesday, May 29, 2024 This devotion was published in a slightly different version on May 30, 2023. (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Chapel on the Dunes All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the flower wilts, but the...

Tuesday, May 28, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Angels have longed to look into these things Beloved, concerning the salvation of your souls. Many of those who study 1 Peter are skeptical that a Galilean fisherman could have written such beautiful prose. But those same scholars rarely question the...

Monday, May 27, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The kingdom and the power and the glory Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us a new birth to a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Tomorrow we’ll...

Sunday, May 26, 2024 The Solemnity of the Most High Trinity (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Breathe in, breathe out Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons and daughters of God. You have received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” A few...

Saturday, May 25, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Do it anyway Let my prayer come like incense before you; the lifting up of hands, like the evening sacrifice. Although she has run into some thick walls, Beth Moore has never shied away from hard confrontations when she’s convinced that’s...

Friday, May 24, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Looking inward As the heavens are high above the earth, so surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our transgressions from us. In Plough Magazine,...

Thursday, May 23, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Character rock Receive the word of God, not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God. Assuming I have one, what will my gravestone say? I haven’t thought about it much. My friend Jack’s said,...

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Feed the birds, tuppence a bag You have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. Last week I moved two effective squirrel-proof bird feeders from a closet to a box heading back to Illinois. For months we filled them...

Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time, May 21, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Nostos-algia Beloved: where do the wars and conflicts among you come from? God bestows a greater grace and the spirit says, “Resist the proud, give grace to the humble. For centuries homesickness was considered...