Daily Reading
October 13, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! What we believe about ourselves matters. Are we worthy of being treated with respect? Yes we are. Every single one of us, no matter what our pas...
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October 12, 2026
Either (a) we’re blowing it, or (b) God is holding out on us. Or some combination of both, which is where most people land. Think about it. Isn’t this where you land, with all the things that haven’t gone the way you’d hoped and wanted? Isn’t it some...
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October 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! You have an enemy, whether you want to accept the fact or not. Satan and his forces know you, they know your story, and they prey upon your wea...
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October 10, 2026
This is a very dangerous moment, when God seems set against everything that has meant life to us. Satan spies his opportunity, and leaps to accuse God in our hearts. You see, he says, God is angry with you. He’s disappointed in you. If he loved you h...
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October 9, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! As partners with Christ and co- heirs, our posture toward the battle changes. We begin to ask, “What are my orders, God? What would You have me...
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October 8, 2026
Suppose there was a king who loved a humble maiden. The king was like no other king. No one dared breathe a word against him, for he had the strength to crush all opponents. And yet this mighty king was melted by love for a humble maiden. How could h...
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October 7, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! Friends, God sent His Holy Spirit into our hearts to help us live in God’s love and boldly pray “Abba! Father!” Abba is a term of endearment to...
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October 6, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! Friends, because of the sacred place we hold in God’s heart— the place that is ours alone— we’ve been invited by Him both to know Him more than ...
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October 5, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! It is our inner communion with God that is both the source of our joy and the source of our strength. We do not want to be those w...
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October 4, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! Jesus is both the Shepherd and, as Revelation 13:8 reminds us, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. John the Bapt...
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October 3, 2026
We have dissected God, and man, and the gospel, and we have thousands, if not millions, of facts — all of it quite dead. It’s not that these insights aren’t true; it’s that they no longer speak. I could tell you a few facts about God, for example. He...
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October 2, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! When our prayers are answered in the way we are contending for them to be, we experience joy and our faith is strengthened. But wh...
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October 1, 2026
We haven’t yet seen anyone in their true glory. Including you. Yes, Mozart did start writing symphonies as a child, and Picasso could draw before he could talk. But most human beings are profoundly thwarted in their “calling” here because of woundi...
Daily Reading
September 30, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! The wonderful news is that it is God who seeks us, offers us His Living Water, and He will never turn His face away from anyone who...
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September 29, 2026
This is a world at war. We live in a far more dramatic, far more dangerous story than we ever imagined. The reason we love The Chronicles of Narnia or Star Wars or The Matrix or The Lord of the Rings is that they are telling us something about our li...
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September 28, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! When we turn in prayer to God for union despite our emotional state or physical circumstances, these are the times that undo the h...
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September 27, 2026
Identity is not something that falls on us out of the sky. For better or for worse, identity is bestowed. We are who we are in relation to others. But far more important, we draw our identity from our impact on those others — if and how we affect the...
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September 26, 2026
You will be wounded. Just because this battle is spiritual doesn't mean it's not real; it is, and the wounds a man can take are in some ways more ugly than those that come in a firefight. To lose a leg is nothing compared to losing heart; to be cripp...
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September 25, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! Jesus says, “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, ...
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September 24, 2026
When we were young, most of us loved adventure. There is something about the unknown that draws us, which is why we like stories so much. But I like to leave the theater at the end of the play, knowing that the dilemma of evil has been resolved by th...
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September 23, 2026
God is not “out there somewhere” in some dramatic way, waiting to commune with us by earthquake or fire or signs in the sky. Instead, he desires to talk with us in the quietness of our own heart through his Spirit, who is in us. It is his voice that ...
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September 22, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, releasing on October 6 — pre-order your copy today! Jesus warned us that in this world we would have trouble, and He knew what He was talking about. But He didn’t end with merely giv...
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September 21, 2026
This is exactly what Christ promised: eternal life, real life! (1 John 2:25 The Message) Jesus’ offer of eternal life has gotten “interpreted” by well-meaning people to say, “Oh, well. Yes, of course ... God intends life for you. But that is eternal...
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September 20, 2026
I love being happy. But happiness is unpredictable; it feels vulnerable because it is tied to my circumstances. And don’t we all know it. One day you’re up; next day you’re down. Circumstantial happiness is an emotional roller coaster; it can really ...
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September 19, 2026
Our thoughts flow downhill like water. If we aren’t aware of what we are thinking, our thoughts wander, leading us down windy ways through dark woods. We lose perspective; we start speculating; we come to terrible conclusions in about seven seconds. ...
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September 18, 2026
And they lived happily ever after. Stop for just a moment, and let it be true. They lived happily ever after. These may be the most beautiful and haunting words in the entire library of mankind. Why does the end of a great story leave us with a lump...
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September 17, 2026
In heaven, things are not stained or broken; everything is as it was meant to be. Think for a moment of the wonder of this. Isn't every one of our sorrows on earth the result of things not being as they were meant to be? And so when the kingdom of Go...
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September 16, 2026
We are each created to accomplish a work worthy of God; it is one of our deepest yearnings. And we will, in the kingdom; not just once, but many, many times over. Are we employed in the actual restoration itself? I don’t know for certain. “They will ...
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September 15, 2026
Imagine what it would be like if you were never, ever able to wake from your nightmares. Like being tumbled under the waves and never able to find the surface again. That there is a reality for us to wake to is a gift beyond words. Whether or not w...
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September 14, 2026
I thought of the last story we have from the life of the prophet Elisha. Jehoash was king of Israel at the time, and he went to visit Elisha on his sickbed. He knew that without the help of this great prophet, the future of Israel was looking dim. En...