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In 1968 Jerry Snell opened a door in the hallway outside our first hour chemistry class. He invited me into what I discovered was a darkroom. Soon I was on the school newspaper and annual staff as a photographer. Later I learned that Jerry was a Lutheran who was planning to become a pastor. A few years later I was not only a Lutheran, but I was heading off to seminary to become a Lutheran pastor, too. Jerry followed a year later and served as a pastor in Missouri until his untimely heart attack and death. I thank God for Jerry and enjoy photography still today – not to mention rejoicing in having served as a Lutheran pastor in congregations in Utah, Colorado, Arkansas and Texas. I’ve retired now and serve part time as a Congregational Support Specialist for the Texas District of the LCMS. I also provide coaching and leadership training through various PLI cohorts and with individual congregations and organizations. David Bahn is a follower of Jesus Christ, husband to Diane, father and grandfather. He is an avid amateur photographer. His photo website is “Flowers by God Photos by David” He also publishes a devotional blog DavidBahn-Reflections.com. He and Diane live in Cypress Texas and enjoy visiting their grandchildren who live in the United States and Germany. He graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary in 1979, and earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1991. Diane, his wife, is now retired from PLI (PLIleadership.org). They have offered presentations on Marriage and Ministry Partnership, Leadership, Changing Your Congregation’s Culture, and Missional Living. They look are working with PLI International training pastors and wives of the ELVD Diocese of the Lutheran Church of Tanzania. David’s personal mission statement is “Leading people to realize Jesus’ calling and plans for their lives.”

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  • 49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 136: God Does Not Play Favorites

    49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 136: God Does Not Play Favorites

    Click here for an audio version of this devotion. I am using readings from the 49 Week Bible Challenge as the basis for these devotions. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. Today’s readings are Acts 10; 2 Chronicles 19; Job 34; Psalm 20; Ezekiel 4. Acts 10:34-43 Peter opened his mouth and…

  • 49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 135: What’s in a name?

    49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 135: What’s in a name?

    Click here for an audio version of this devotion. I am using readings from the 49 Week Bible Challenge as the basis for these devotions. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. Today’s readings are Acts 9; 2 Kings 8; Isaiah 17; Jeremiah 40; 41. Acts 9:36-43 Now there was in Joppa a disciple…

  • 49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 135: Scattered Witness

    49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 135: Scattered Witness

    Click here for an audio version of this devotion. I am using readings from the 49 Week Bible Challenge as the basis for these devotions. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. Today’s readings are Acts 8; 1 Kings 8; 13; 18. Acts 8:1-8 And Saul approved of [Stephen’s] execution. And there arose on that…

  • 49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 134: The Blood of Martyrs and the Triumph of Christ

    49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 134: The Blood of Martyrs and the Triumph of Christ

    Click here for an audio version of this devotion. I am using readings from the 49 Week Bible Challenge as the basis for these devotions. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. Today’s readings are Acts 7:46-60; Joshua 14; 15; 23; 2 Chronicles 2. Acts 7:51-60 [Stephen is speaking] “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in…

  • Today’s Psalms for September 14, 2025

    Please pray these Psalms with me on this Lord’s Day  Psalm 14 O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”     They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds;     there is none who does good. 2 The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man,     to see if there are…

  • 49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 131: Holy Ground

    49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 131: Holy Ground

    Click here for an audio version of this devotion. I am using readings from the 49 Week Bible Challenge as the basis for these devotions. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. Today’s readings are Acts 7:30-43; Amos 5; Exodus 11; Leviticus 27. Acts 7:30-34 [Stephen is speaking] “Now when forty years had…

  • 49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 130: Remembering

    49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 130: Remembering

    Click here for an audio version of this devotion. I am using readings from the 49 Week Bible Challenge as the basis for these devotions. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. Today’s readings are Acts 7:17-29; Exodus 1; 2; 1 kings 4. Acts 7:17-29 [Stephen is speaking] “But as the time of…

  • 49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 129: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

    49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 129: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

    Click here for an audio version of this devotion. I am using readings from the 49 Week Bible Challenge as the basis for these devotions. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. Today’s readings are Acts 7:9-16; Genesis 39; 42; 47. Genesis 39 (selected verses) [Note: The following is a summarized account of…

  • 49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 128: The Pathway of Blessing

    49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 128: The Pathway of Blessing

    Click here for an audio version of this devotion. I am using readings from the 49 Week Bible Challenge as the basis for these devotions. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. Today’s readings are Acts 7:1-8; Genesis 12; 29; 30. Genesis 12:1-9 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your…

  • 49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 127: Foreigners and Faith

    49 Week Bible Challenge – Day 127: Foreigners and Faith

    Click here for an audio version of this devotion. I am using readings from the 49 Week Bible Challenge as the basis for these devotions. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. Today’s readings are Acts 6; Exodus 18; Numbers 8; Nehemiah 13. Nehemiah 13:1-9 On that day they read from the Book of…