Daily Reading
October 22, 2026
Doing things for God is not the same thing as loving God. Jesus loves the poor — so, movements have arisen that make service to the poor the main thing. Even though Jesus never said that being poor was more noble or even spiritual. The latest craze i...
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October 21, 2026
Down through the ages, followers of Christ have believed that to be able to give God our attention as a regular practice was a very important thing. After vividly recounting the many challenges of faith and character before us, the author of Hebrews ...
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October 20, 2026
Any parent or lover knows this: love is chosen. You cannot, in the end, force anyone to love you. So if you are writing a story where love is the meaning, where love is the highest and best of all, where love is the point, then you have to allow each...
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October 19, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! There are forces inside us and there are forces outside us that often come against the deepening of our relationship with God and keep us from ...
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October 19, 2026
I know I’m not alone in having a hard time believing in the love of God for me (we think he loves everyone else), or receiving the love of God, or letting it catch my heart up into life and joy, or, maybe especially, staying there for any reasonable ...
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October 18, 2026
What we call “Christianity” is an invasion. The Kingdom of God is advancing into the kingdom of darkness, a campaign to ransom people and the earth God intended us to rule. For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost. All that was lost. If...
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October 17, 2026
You have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering. You have come to the assembly of God’s firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have com...
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October 16, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! We are a worshipping Bride. We are also a warring one. And we have been bestowed with the authority of Jesus to move in victory, taking back th...
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October 16, 2026
Our hope is meant to be the anchor of our souls, to keep us steady in the middle of the storms of life. It is set firmly within the truth that Jesus is trustworthy. He has promised us that He is returning and that, when He does, He will make all thin...
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October 15, 2026
God heals the earth, and he heals us. We are restored to one another. The earth waits for our healing, and we wait for the earth’s healing. I believe our healing brings about something of the healing of the earth, and I’m certain the healed earth hel...
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October 14, 2026
The book “Killing Lions” is a conversation between John and Sam Eldredge about the trials young men face. [John] Paralysis (masquerading as “confusion”) haunts every man when a looming decision will require a lot of us. Make note of that; don’t...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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 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...