Pastor Scott’s Daily Devotions

a daily prayer resource to inspire, encourage, and inform

Learning to Enjoy Playtime
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

Learning to Enjoy Playtime

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)

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Word and Action in Harmony
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

Word and Action in Harmony

For we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of humanity. (2 Corinthians 8:21)

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Bitter Old Filch
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

Bitter Old Filch

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. (James 3:16)

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Flashy as Gilderoy Lockhart
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

Flashy as Gilderoy Lockhart

Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 6:1)

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Hagrid Knocking at Your Door
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

Hagrid Knocking at Your Door

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. (Matthew 7:8)

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Deeper Love is Divine
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

Deeper Love is Divine

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13)

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Steps to Emotional Intelligence
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

Steps to Emotional Intelligence

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)

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More Than Animals
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

More Than Animals

Then God said, “Let us make man [humans] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26)

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Life Worth Living
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

Life Worth Living

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

(Proverbs 19:20)

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The Risk You Cannot Afford Not to Take!
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

The Risk You Cannot Afford Not to Take!

He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good. (Ecclesiastes 11:4-6)

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The Gift of Weakness
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

The Gift of Weakness

“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.” (2 Corinthians 11:30)

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Ask, Seek, and Knock
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

Ask, Seek, and Knock

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8)

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The Artist and the Craftsperson
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

The Artist and the Craftsperson

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

(Revelation 4:11)

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The Sin Upon Indigenous People
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

The Sin Upon Indigenous People

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. (Isaiah 1:17)

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Three Times Ain’t Enough
Laura Sherlock Laura Sherlock

Three Times Ain’t Enough

“But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

(2 Chronicles 15:7)

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