Weekly Devotional

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   Recently I witness a new thing: A baptism. I know what you are thinking. Baptisms aren’t new. They have been around for centuries. In fact, they were around long before John the Baptist started baptizing people in the desert. But what happens at baptism is a new thing.…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   Do you ever think out loud? I do. If you were to pull up beside me while I am driving to different places here in western Washington, there may be times where you would catch me talking to the empty space in my car. I will have entire…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   The last two weeks have been painful for our family with three good friends who lost the patriarch of their families. We have been on the phone with those that live afar and others we have safely visited locally. It is painful to watch dear family friends go…

 By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   This past weekend Wilma and I were supposed to attend our academy alumni reunion. Like most events it was canceled because of the nationwide shut down. However, one of our classmates started posting all our senior pictures online and soon a virtual alumni reunion was happening. Classmates were…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   When the word first came from the Governor of Washington that we were to Stay Home and Stay Healthy, the weather was not bad. The sun was out and after each long day of being on teleconference calls with many different groups, it was nice to go out…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   My heart was warmed recently when the news featured a father and his son from Lincoln, Nebraska, who went to a busy intersection, parked their car, set up a table and then erected a sign that said, “Free toilet paper and hand sanitizer for the elderly.” My heart…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   No doubt you have heard many things about a certain virus that is making daily headlines. You, like me, have likely read a lot of information that is out there about the coronavirus. Many precautions are being taken and the things that are happening are unprecedented — at…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   There they were in my rear-view mirror. Flashing lights and the image of the local city police car. I was 16 years old and driving around in my pick-up truck feeling on top of the world. That is until I saw those lights. My truck had loud mufflers…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   My mother loves to tell a story about me. To this day she still cannot tell the story without bursting into laughter even though she has told the story multiple times. For me it is a story that is only funny years later. At the time is simply…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   It is always a point of curiosity when you exit a store and find three police cars all pulled up and parked erratically right by the door of the store. This was a recent scene my wife and I encountered at a storefront. In addition to the police…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   In the last book of the Bible, we read about the tree of life in the earth made new. I have thought about that tree more than once. It is intriguing to imagine that tree. Revelation 22 states that it is positioned on both sides of the river…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   This past January I watched my son trying to lose weight. But not by going to the gym. Many people start gym memberships in January and usually by the end of February have either canceled that membership or continue to pay thinking they will start going there soon.…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   One of my favorite spots in western Washington is a place called Mowich Lake located in Mt. Rainier National Park. If you are not a hiker, it is perfect because you can just drive there. Of course, the drive is not on a four lane highway. It is…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   The world we live in is a very sensory world. In fact, our senses are assaulted from all sides with all sorts of smells, sights, and sounds. We hear about things that are really soft and cuddly and things that are really hard and durable. After every major…

By Doug Bing, Washington Conference president   Several weeks ago while at the gym I saw a rare sight: a person sitting down on a gym couch. I chuckled as I saw this person just sitting there reading something on a smartphone. You just don’t see many people sitting down in a gym! This caused…