Seeking the Extraordinary

Inspirational devotionals to help discover God’s extraordinary presence in your ordinary day

Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Sin and Love

Recently I heard Kristi McLelland say, “In our culture today, sin is starting to be absent from our vocabulary.”

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

A Foretaste!

When the time rolled around for my 60th birthday, I decided it was my turn for a party.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

The Invisible Reality

I believe that this invisible reality can be seen and experienced, but we must pay close attention.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

The Messianic Secret

Jesus gives strict orders not to let anyone know of the miraculous healing of a little girl.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Rebuilding A Wall

Alongside me on this mission team were a bank executive, a flight attendant, a decorator, a MRI technologist, a pastor, and a nurse.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Choices

As you read through the bible, it seems many of the stories revolve around choices: good ones, bad ones, small ones, large ones.

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Jay Madden Jay Madden

Face to the Wall

This story of Hezekiah praying and weeping before God shows his vulnerability and distress

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Jay Madden Jay Madden

A Gentle Whisper

We are bombarded each day with the loud voices of our culture shouting their opinions.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Our Miracle

When I read in 2 Samuel 12:18 that David and Bathsheba’s first son died

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Visual Proof

When I was seven years old, I made my first photo scrapbook.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Exceedingly Good

Caleb and Joshua, however, were courageous and wanted to lay claim to what God had promised to them and their families.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Read It and Weep

As I reread the unfolding story of Joseph, I was in tears all along the way.

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Jay Madden Jay Madden

Mindful of Them

When I read these words and think of my own life, I am amazed that the God of the universe is mindful of me.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

The Book of Nature

On a recent walk, I noticed the sounds of the insects beginning to swell.

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Jay Madden Jay Madden

For Us Through Us

I just recently returned from my first international trip since the beginning of the pandemic.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Love Letters

We recently discovered the love letters my parents wrote to one another in 1944 -1945.

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Jay Madden Jay Madden

God’s Signs and Wonders

We had the opportunity to see God’s signs and wonders in the rescue of eighteen Christians from Afghanistan.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Exile

Almost twenty years ago, Jay and I packed our belongings in a Honda van with forty years‑worth of memories.

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Rebecca Madden Rebecca Madden

Mimi’s Bible

I have been helping Rebecca clean out her family home of 150 years.

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