by Rick Bertou | Jun 25, 2024 | Devotional
Over the last 40+ years, I’ve worked for countless employers and managers. It’s a little difficult for me to figure out when I actually started working. When I was a teenager, I worked on various fruit farms picking apples while spending Friday and Saturday nights...
by Rick Bertou | Jun 4, 2024 | Devotional
There’s a popular contemporary Christian song where, with much excitement, deep expression, and a building crescendo, the singer sings, “I am a child of God!” It is an exhilarating and encouraging song that I love to sing alone in my truck – and trust me – you want me...
by Rick Bertou | May 21, 2024 | Devotional
There are many things that are wrong with the world. We certainly don’t need to be reminded of that, do we? Spend just 15-minutes on any news channel and you’ll find all kinds of things that are wrong in the world, enough so that it can be very unsettling. This...
by Rick Bertou | Sep 26, 2023 | Devotional
Welcome to the first topic of this blog series entitled the “Things I Need to Tell Myself.” I decided to follow the advice of “experts” and come up with something big for the first one, and I already feel exposed. Our topic comes from a verse in Ephesians...
by Rick Bertou | Sep 12, 2023 | Devotional
I’ve decided to start a new blog series. The title for this series is the “Things I Need to Tell Myself.” The reason for this title is simple: I find that I need to tell myself many things, very often. This isn’t new to me. In fact, for the most part, the things...
