From My Heart Devotionals

Find Me Faithful

Find Me Faithful

After months of work, our family album is almost completed. Here is a preview of one of the songs and the dedication from the CD cover. It all started with a prayer… As Fran Hamilton was having her devotions in 1968, God spoke to her heart and said, “I want you to...

Fruit of the Spirit

Fruit of the Spirit

Recently, I heard a group of Sunday school teachers discuss how they adjust Calvinistic material so they can use it.  When one of them taught on the fruits of the Spirit, they completely avoided the week where self-control was discussed. Everyone in the room...

Chiropractors, Backbones, and Other Ramblings

Chiropractors, Backbones, and Other Ramblings

I want to renew my mind.  This is the adjustment where everything else is affected. Last night I read about upper cervical care adjustments. I did not understand at first that the upper cervical care was done with a chiropractor.  And although I have...

Not Mine

Not Mine

I bought my first car when I was nineteen.  Nothing flashy…really it was more of an old-lady car, a bird-shell blue Toyota Corolla. As a student at God’s Bible School, I needed this car.  My first year of college had been covered completely by a scholarship,...

Faith without Trappings

Faith without Trappings

“When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.” -James Hudson Taylor Can I go down memory lane with you? Today most of my family is headed to a camp in Gadston, Texas.  About 20-25 years ago, Todd and I attended this camp for the...

Buried Promises

Buried Promises

Guest Post by Abigail Hamilton Has God ever made you a promise that He hasn’t kept? “Oh, it sounds awful when you put it that way, Abigail,” you might say. But really, has God ever given you a promise and the years have passed and nothing has happened? Everything...

Let’s Go Fishing

Let’s Go Fishing

Here is an excerpt from a sermon that my pastor, Brother Johnny Wade, gave. He has said that his sermons are "public domain." I grew up in a man’s home who was  fisherman.  I doubt if there were very many times that my dad would have told you, “I went...

Millions of Frogs

Millions of Frogs

A few weeks ago, my church’s Sunday school paper, "Grains of Salt," had a story about a farmer who went to a shop to see if he could sell frog legs to them.  The farmer said he had a pond with millions of frogs in it.  The shopkeeper was amazed but agreed to...

Walking with the King

Walking with the King

When Samuel was around three years old, I found him happily singing one day, “Hallelujah, I’m walking with the King.” I was curious if he knew what the song was about, so I asked him, “Samuel which king are you walking with?” “King Herod,” he told me triumphantly....

Anchored

Anchored

In Kansas they sing some songs that I didn’t grow up with in Indiana.  One of these has the words by W. C. Martin, “And it holds, my anchor holds: Blow your wildest, then, O gale.” I remember sitting in services, years ago, as we were singing this and almost...