Daily Reading
November 14, 2026
In all of our hearts lies a longing for a Sacred Romance. It will not go away in spite of our efforts over the years to anesthetize or ignore its song, or attach it to a single person or endeavor. It is a Romance couched in mystery and set deeply wit...
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November 13, 2026
We are looking to find the presence of God in our inmost being, to experience him and commune with him there. By tapping into his actual presence within us, we are able to receive the strength that prevails. It begins with simply giving him your atte...
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November 12, 2026
Start with something you love. The laughter of your child. Sunlight on the ocean. Your beloved dog. A favorite song, music itself. Perhaps a photo, like my caribou. A favorite spot — your garden, the cliffs at the sea, the family cabin. Someone dear ...
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November 11, 2026
Today’s Daily Reading is an excerpt from Morgan Snyder's book “Becoming a King” George MacDonald posed this question in his brilliant book Unspoken Sermons: “How have you learned the Father?” If we were to be honest and dive into our own inner worl...
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November 10, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! Many of you will recall the story of the woman with the issue of blood, as recounted in Mark 5. I love to imagine the day she encountered Jesus—...
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November 9, 2026
A curious warning is given to us in Peter's first epistle. There he tells us to be ready to give the reason for the hope that lies within us to everyone who asks (3:15). Now, what's strange about that passage is this: no one ever asks. When was the l...
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November 8, 2026
The mighty victory is staying true to God. It is maintaining a mature perspective — where God means everything to you — through glorious breakthrough and in the midst of terrible affliction. If you do not hold fast to this, you will be shaken when yo...
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November 7, 2026
Zechariah’s visions are recorded in a short book bearing his name toward the end of the Old Testament portion of your Bible. I want to focus on one mighty, mighty promise found in chapter 2: Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a meas...
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November 6, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! Jesus honors our bodies with breathtaking glory through His incarnation. He has a body now— a glorified body, yes, but a body. Remember, after H...
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November 5, 2026
Life is the offer, friends. Let us not forget that. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I h...
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November 4, 2026
You do know what God is after in your own life, don’t you? Maybe that’s why we stay so busy — to avoid knowing, so we can avoid dealing with it. And you do know that the “quick fix” doesn’t ever work. Simply telling myself, “You are too busy, John. Y...
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November 3, 2026
Eve is given to Adam as his ezer kenegdo — or as many translations have it, his "help meet" or "helper." Doesn't sound like much, does it? It makes me think of Hamburger Helper. But Robert Alter says this is "a notoriously difficult word to translate...
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November 2, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! Take a moment and check in with your own heart. What are you feeling? What are you believing? About yourself? About your life? About God? What ...
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November 1, 2026
John the Beloved, also called John the Seer because of his authorship of the book of Revelation, was taken into the Kingdom of God by the Spirit. He visited the city of God, and there he saw the River: Then the angel showed me the river of the water ...
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October 31, 2026
The story of Cinderella turns upon an invitation. Up until the moment that the courier from the palace arrives at her door, Cinderella’s life seems set in stone. She will always be a washerwoman, a cellar girl. Her enemies will forever have the upp...
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October 30, 2026
I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Isra...
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October 29, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! The word “servant” doesn’t translate well into our modern- day vernacular. It’s a word that feels like you’re welcome in the house— but only in...
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October 28, 2026
We must open our hearts to all the other ways God is bringing beauty into our lives. The beauty of a flower garden or moonlight on water, the beauty of music or a written word. Our souls crave Beauty, and if we do not find it we will be famished. We ...
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October 27, 2026
Every great story involves a quest. In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins ran from the door at a quarter till eleven without even so much as a pocket handkerchief and launched on an adventure that would change his life forever. Alice steppe...
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October 26, 2026
Giving up has always been a struggle for frail humanity. But when Jesus urges us to ask for strength to escape, he has something particular in mind, something he sees coming: “At that time many will turn away from the faith” (Matthew 24:10). Saint Pa...
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October 25, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have cal...
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October 24, 2026
Your sin has been dealt with. Your Father has removed it from you "as far as the east is from the west" (Ps. 103:12). Your sins have been washed away (1 Cor. 6:11). When God looks at you he does not see your sin. He has not one condemning thought tow...
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October 23, 2026
The Ephesians passage warns about spiritual strongholds created in our lives when we let “the sun go down” on something. Note that in this case that something isn’t necessarily sin. Paul says, “in your anger do not sin,” so anger does not equal sin. ...
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October 22, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! “He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace,...
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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 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...