Posts with the tag “pastor-gene-beck”

Daily Devotional
March 18th, 2024
Most of you know that Lynette and I live in the foothills near Prather.  All around us are the signs of spring.  The winter rains have caused nature to come alive again.  The grass is green, the trees...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
March 7th, 2024
Over the past number of days, I have been thinking about how easy it is to lose focus on what is important.  There is so much that is crying out for our attention.  It is easy to set aside what should...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
February 23rd, 2024
The pace of life can often be overwhelming.  We often require more and more from ourselves until we begin coming apart at the seams.  I know that I have found myself at that place at times in my life ...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
February 9th, 2024
Today, I have found myself thinking of how easy it is to become self-satisfied with our spiritual progress or lack of spiritual progress.  We might even say that our lives cannot be different this sid...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
January 5th, 2024
It is hard to believe that 2023 is past.  I just got used to writing 2023 on my checks and now the year is gone.  As the old year has passed, I would pray that you and your family will have a joyous N...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
November 24th, 2023
It is hard to imagine where this whole year has gone.  It doesn’t seem possible that this week we will celebrate Thanksgiving.  I am looking forward to spending time with family.  I am sure you have f...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
November 10th, 2023
This year as we come to the month of November, I want to set aside more time to reflect on God’s goodness in my life and to be thankful.  In the United States, we have set aside the fourth Thursday of...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
October 27th, 2023
One of the things I enjoy doing in the early morning is going out into our subdivision for a walk.  Now I will be honest, I started walking for exercise because I wanted to improve my physical health....  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
October 11th, 2023
This past July, I had the privilege of traveling with Pastor Jim and Karon to Israel.  It was my first time to see and experience the Holy Land.  The time we spent at the Sea of Galilee impacted my li...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
September 27th, 2023
Through the years, I have traveled to many places where I was unfamiliar with the roads.  As in typical male fashion, I often would not ask for directions.  I figured we were close to our destination ...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
September 15th, 2023
All of us have gone through times when we have wondered where God was or if He had time to care for us.  With over 8 billion people on our planet, we might feel that we are rather insignificant to the...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
September 1st, 2023
The Psalms often remind us that we are to praise the Lord for He is actively at work all around us.  Sometimes He is working in very visible ways, and it is obvious what God is doing.  At other times ...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
August 15th, 2023
We live today in rather uncertain times.  There is a huge political divide, and it seems that the forces of evil are trying to destroy what is good.  People have ideas of how the problems we face shou...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
August 4th, 2023
The last five Psalms of the Book of Psalms are glorious worship hymns that exhort us to praise our God.  They bring into focus the reality that our lives are to bring glory to God, and that we should ...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
July 21st, 2023
Today we live in a world that is constantly changing.  Lynette’s grandfather would say, “Travel in my lifetime has gone from horse and buggy to cars, to airplanes, to landing a man on the moon.”  Havi...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
July 6th, 2023
Some of you know that I come from a farming background, and I grew up about 18 miles north of Chico, CA in the Sacramento Valley. Both sides of my family were farmers for a number of generations.  My ...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
June 23rd, 2023
This morning, as I write this devotional, an old hymn from my childhood, keeps going through my mind.  “What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
June 9th, 2023
I am very thankful for God’s forgiveness of sins.  How many of us have needed God’s forgiveness this past month… week… or even today.  Without that forgiveness, past, present, and future, we would be ...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
May 22nd, 2023
I have been thinking about how important it is that Jesus is seated at the Father’s right hand, continually interceding for us. Prayer was a key component of Jesus’ ministry to His disciples.  He cont...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
May 11th, 2023
In June of 1980, my family and I moved to Montana.  Little did we know what great adventure and ministry were waiting for us there.  After getting settled in, on a beautiful Montana summer day, we dro...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
April 28th, 2023
Through the years I have often quoted Philippians 3:10, agreeing with the Apostle Paul that I want to know the Lord on a deeper level.  Suffering and a full understanding of Christ’s death on our beha...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
April 14th, 2023
This past week we reflected on the sufferings of Christ and celebrated His resurrection that first Easter morning.  Now almost 2000 years removed from the events, I want to remind us of how significan...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
March 31st, 2023
Religious groups of Jesus’ day often openly questioned Him.  The Sadducees were one of these groups.  They accepted only the first five Books of Moses, did not believe in angels, spirits or the resurr...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
March 17th, 2023
As an act of worship, it is important for us to take time on a regular basis to tell God of our love for Him.  When we think of God’s working in our lives, He demonstrates repeatedly His love for us. ...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
March 1st, 2023
God has uniquely fashioned each of us to serve and live for Him.  We all have different personalities, abilities, and spiritual giftedness.  When God combines these things together, we all have specia...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
February 17th, 2023
Each day God desires for us to press on toward His goals for our life.  The word “press” expresses an intense endeavor.  We are to move intently toward God’s desires for our lives and make this a patt...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
February 3rd, 2023
Each New Year brings its challenges.  Challenges like remembering to write 2023 on my checks, following a new budget, or maybe making life changes.  Some of these are easy once we get into the flow of...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
January 6th, 2023
As we begin this New Year, my thoughts turn toward God’s care in my life.  There are many times that I feel all alone.  I may even feel that God is distant when I am dealing with life’s difficulties. ...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
November 25th, 2022
The theme of the Psalm is expressed in verse 1.  David’s soul waited in silence and found rest in God alone.  God was his complete source of calmness when his world was falling apart.  He emphasizes t...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
November 11th, 2022
God desires that I cultivate an attitude of thankfulness in my life.  Every day I should stop and reflect on God’s goodness.   In fact, it is God’s will for me to be thankful.  Sometimes with all the ...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
October 28th, 2022
As we go through life, everyone’s journey is different. God has set before us, as it were a race to run. This race will be difficult at times.  The temptation is to look at the race others are running...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
October 14th, 2022
God not only has fashioned us and put us together the way we are, but He also designs us to acomplish particular things for Him.  We are, “created in Christ Jesus for good works…”   God has planned fo...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
September 29th, 2022
I am finding that I need the peace of God more and more as I live each day.  My mind needs to learn to rest in the person and character of our Lord.  Difficult and stressful times are not anything new...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
September 16th, 2022
Consider the Lord’s thoughts of love toward each of us today. A love that values us with the very life of God’s Son that was given for us. A love that unconditionally accepts us as a result of this sa...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
September 2nd, 2022
We as humans are strange creatures.  We run faster when we lose our way.  Instead of pausing to regroup, we ricochet from place to place.  We do not pause to orient ourselves.  We usually refuse to as...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
August 19th, 2022
The Apostle Paul was a man of great spiritual stature, but not without faults.  He wanted his readers to know that he had not attained to full maturity in Christ.  Paul saw himself as the worst of sin...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
August 5th, 2022
As Christians we are God’s unique creation.  God has made us what we are. We are an important part of the “new creation,” the body of Christ.  At the moment of salvation we were placed in this body an...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
July 22nd, 2022
The people’s lives that are recorded in biblical history are people just like us. They struggledwith many of the same daily pressures that we deal with today. They worked hard to provide fortheir fami...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
July 8th, 2022
Today we are living in troubling times. I don’t think anyone would disagree with that statement. The Apostle Paul in writing to his son in the faith Timothy, said that the last days would be character...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck
Daily Devotional
June 23rd, 2022
This past week I have been reflecting on God’s grace.  I am realizing in a deeper way how God’s unmerited favor not only brought me to Christ but also is in the process of changing my life to be more ...  Read More
by Pastor Gene Beck