A devotional historical fiction on Matthew 8:5–13 ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: The Longest Night in Capernaum The lamp had burned down to a blue bead of flame, and still the boy would not stop shaking. Lucius Valerius Crispus had seen men die of arrows, of spears, of wounds no surgeon could clean. A centurion learns…
Author: Dennis Robbins
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Scattered, Not Sent: Building a Culture of Evangelism in the Church
From the Checkout Lane to the Sidewalk Gospel Presentation: Evangelism as a Way of Congregational Life and how a whole congregation can recover the ordinary, joyful habit of speaking of Jesus ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: Three or Four Poor Women at a Door in the Sun Sometime in the early 1650s, a tinker named John…
Pastor Joey Sampaga: Rendering to Caesar, Surrendering to God, Luke 20:19-26
. Here is the full transcript [Click HERE to close] – Good morning. Before I get started, I just wanted to mention a few things. Let’s keep Kuya Ed and John, John Q, in our prayers. They’re going through health problems, so keep them in prayer. And pray for those who are traveling. And just a reminder,…
Before the Coffee Cools: A Morning Checklist for a Life That Glorifies God
The Preflight Inspection of the Soul ❧ ✦ ❧ Lost by Inches Most Christians do not lose their witness in a single dramatic fall. They lose it by inches: a curt word to a cashier, a lane stolen on the freeway at 7:40 in the morning, a neighbor whose name we never bothered to learn,…
Not as Their Scribes: A Devotional on Matthew 7:28–29
Unlike a Typical Megachurch Sermon, Jesus’ Words Were Astonishing ❧ ✦ ❧ The sun had climbed high over the hills above Capernaum by the time the voice fell silent. For a long moment, no one moved. Fishermen who had come hoping to see a miracle-worker stood with their questions forgotten. Mothers who had spent the…
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Doubt Your Doubts: A Guide to Timothy Keller’s “The Reason for God”
Keller’s Case for Belief in an Age of Skepticism ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: “Which One of You Is Lying?” As a teenager in a Lutheran church in eastern Pennsylvania, Timothy Keller sat through a two-year confirmation class taught by two very different men. The first year’s teacher, a retired minister, spoke of a holy God…
Dear Christian: Be the Light to Show the Way, Matthew 5:14–16
Lift the Basket: Living as the Light of the World ❧ ✦ ❧ The Night the Grid Went Dark The storm came the way Arizona monsoons always do: a wall of dust first, then wind, then thunder that rattled the windows. Somewhere down the block, a transformer gave a sharp crack and a blue flash,…
One Step at a Time: Walking the Path of a New Disciple
Whether you’ve just said “yes” to Jesus or have walked with Him for decades, this New Christian Discipleship Guide gives you a clear, simple path for the road ahead. Adapted and summarized from Taylor Michna’s You Said Yes, it walks through three movements of the Christian life: understanding what it means to start following Jesus,…
A Robbins Chronicle — From a Gold-Rush Town and a Burning Ship to the Arizona Desert
Exit by exit, the road goes on. This time, there will be a record of the journey. My dad, Neil Robbins, carried much of his story to the grave. His son has chosen to leave his behind—in words his children will not have to search for, or struggle to reconstruct when there is no one…