A devotional to help military families stay connected during deployments

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Editor’s Note:  This is a great story to follow our last posting, “Dancing in the Minefields.”  Check it out, too. Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. . . . . and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth . . . may you ever be captivated by her love. — Proverbs 5:18b, 19b Everybody loves a good story. And everybody loves a good song. Put the two together and you’ve [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “…my spirit is depressed. Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing: The Lord’s unfailing love and mercy still continue, fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise.” — Lamentations 3:20b-23 Well, here we are, already into the New Year. Some of us [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. – I Timothy 4:8 At the beginning of each year we are inundated with advice on how to “get [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 6:23 Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. —Colossians 3:23,24 Years ago [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “The Lord is king. He is clothed with majesty and strength. The earth is set firmly in place and cannot be moved… The Lord rules supreme in heaven, greater than the roar of the ocean, more powerful than the waves of the sea…” —Psalms 93:1 [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. — Philippians 4:13 My husband and I had the privilege of meeting Captain Scotty Smiley and his wife, Tiffany, while they were stationed at Ft. Monroe in Virginia. We were told that Scotty was the [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Editor’s Note: This article is written by Sherrey Dennis and re-posted by permission of “Wives in Bloom—The Online Magazine of Christian Military Wives Ministry” found at wivesinbloom.com and edited by Jocelyn Green. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers [...]