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October 13, 2026
When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick … So they set out and went from village to village, preac...
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October 11, 2026
As it was for many parents before, teaching our sons to drive was a hair-raising endeavor — merging into traffic that felt like Han Solo pushing the Millennium Falcon into light speed; sudden braking that seemed equally certain to send me through the...
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October 9, 2026
We all share the same dilemma — we long for life and we're not sure where to find it. We wonder if we ever do find it, can we make it last? The longing for life within us seems incongruent with the life we find around us. What is available seems at t...
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October 7, 2026
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6) This is, without question, the Great Offense of Jesus Christ — his exclusivity. To make sure we understand this, what he is saying is that he alone i...
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October 6, 2026
Certainly, you will admit that God is glorious. Is there anyone more kind? Is there anyone more creative? Is there anyone more valiant? Is there anyone more true? Is there anyone more daring? Is there anyone more beautiful? Is there anyone more wise?...
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October 5, 2026
We usually think of the middle years of the Christian life as a time of acquiring better habits and their accompanying virtues. But inviting Jesus into the "aching abyss" of our heart perhaps has more to do with holding our heart hopefully in partial...
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October 4, 2026
Time has come for us to forgive our fathers. Paul warns us that unforgiveness and bitterness can wreck our lives and the lives of others (Eph. 4:31; Heb. 12:15). I am sorry to think of all the years my wife endured the anger and bitterness that I red...
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October 2, 2026
The world does become too complicated, too overwhelming, too filled with pain so much of the time. As children, we don’t have the capacity to make sense of it, let alone process it. If our lives become too filled with trauma, a part of us disappears....
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September 30, 2026
And then the long story of God's pursuit of humanity begins. Satan wanted center stage: He wanted to be the main character, he wanted to be the point. His plan now is to ruin the Sacred Romance, to get us all caught up in our own little sociodramas b...
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September 28, 2026
I am sitting on the beach this evening, watching the swells roll in toward me. Each wave builds as it approaches, ascending, taking shape, deep greens below sweeping upward into translucent aquamarine. A sculpture in motion, curling forth like shavin...
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September 25, 2026
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what...
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September 22, 2026
In the years that followed the Fall and our exile from Eden, mankind got worse and worse. Cain killed Abel; Lamech threatened to kill everybody else. The wickedness of the human heart seemed out of control and unstoppable, even by the curses. People ...
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September 16, 2026
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim ...
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September 16, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. (Isaiah 64:8) We are created in an intimat...
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September 16, 2026
Our glorious and good God reveals Himself to us in His Word not only as our Father who fathers us with beautiful intention but also as the One who mothers us with mercy. For this is what the Lord says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and th...
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September 16, 2026
We go through dry seasons. Every one of us. Seasons when it is difficult to sense the Presence of God as we once did. Seasons when our prayers become harder to utter as they seem to bounce off the walls around us. Seasons when our prayers remain un -...
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September 16, 2026
This isn’t about yet another thing you have to do in order to become— you name it. No. It’s about responding to an invitation from Jesus to reveal to you who He is with more clarity, color, and depth, and to reveal to you who you are with awe and won...
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September 16, 2026
I love Christmastime. The twinkle lights. The world all dressed up. The carols cheer us as they play over loudspeakers wherever we go. Everyone seems to be in a better mood. Plus, I love presents, both giving them and receiving them, and in my marria...
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September 16, 2026
From Genesis to Revelation, Jesus is described as the Good Shepherd. He is your Good Shepherd. Shepherding is not what Jesus does, it is who He is. Let’s explore this beautiful analogy. Sheep know their shepherd’s care from their long history of his...
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September 16, 2026
Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given in Jesus’s honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. Then Mary took abou...
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September 16, 2026
Your life, as you know, is a story. “Story work” has become a staple in most healing communities, including the church. This is good; this is very hopeful. “Tell me your story” isn’t only the province of therapists; it is what any friend offers anoth...
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September 16, 2026
Every child born into this world comes in with a question in their hearts. I came in with it. So did you. Girls do. Boys do. We all do. It is the deepest question of the universe, and it is simply, Do you love me? Or better said, Am I worthy of love?...
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September 16, 2026
I have written about the heart of devotion that is the true motivation for a servant of Christ’s. But what is the heart of the One we serve? How does the King feel about His charge? How does our God feel toward His servant? You already know the answ...
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September 16, 2026
As Jesus was telling the disciples that He was going to Jerusalem to be killed, they were utterly dismayed, and understandably so. Remember Jesus’s comforting words to them and to us? “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe a...
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September 16, 2026
J. I. Packer writes, “To those who are Christ’s, the holy God is a loving Father; they belong to his family; they may approach him without fear and always be sure of his fatherly concern and care. This is the heart of the New Testament message.” That...
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September 16, 2026
Serving will cost you. Laying your life down will cost you. It is meant to cost you. Love isn’t cheap; it cost the Father everything to send His Son for us. It cost Jesus everything to rescue us. In our grateful, awe-filled heart, our response to God...
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April 15, 2026
Years in the Comfort Culture made us emotionally soft. If we don’t feel like doing something, we don’t do it. If we don’t feel like believing something, we don’t believe it. Folks like to call this authenticity, but it’s really just adolescence. Like...
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November 30, 2025
We were meant to remember together, in community. We need to tell our stories to others and to hear their stories told. We need to help each other with the interpretation of the Larger Story and our own. Our regular times of coming together to worshi...
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April 20, 2025
The book "Killing Lions" is a conversation between John and Sam Eldredge about the trials young men face. [Sam] I recently read an article about a young Maasai man who came to the United States to pursue his master’s degree and then a doctoral degr...
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January 26, 2025
Let’s look into the Glory of God for a moment, the Glory that also protects us. “Glory” is a word that needs reclaiming, like “mystic.” If you were to ask most church folk what is meant by the Glory of God, they would probably say it is the praise th...