Over the last twenty-nine years our devotional publication has gone through many changes. The first issue, in May of 1996, was a simple, one-page, text-only devotional published weekly via e-mail to subscribers. It is now full-color, multi-page, and published monthly—on the 15th—at our web site. It is available in three formats: including two PDFs, one in landscape, for easier viewing on screen (Reflections’ native and preferred format), and one in portrait, for printing.
July 2025 Issue
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Within the subset of humanity that seeks after God, most individuals look for Him in the wrong place—or, if not the wrong place (for there is no place where God cannot or should not be), at least the less-immediate place.
Too many look for God only in the cavernous majesty of the cathedral, the sequestered prayer closet, the humble church pew. We imagine He is more accessible on a Sunday morning, than on a Thursday afternoon. God is in each of these places, of course, but too often we imagine that we must go somewhere other than where we are to find Him.
The two-fold purpose of Reflections by the Pond is to, first of all, bring glory and honor to God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and then to build up believers into a higher—and deeper—level of sanctification.
And by His grace we will.
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