Daily Reading
May 27, 2026
Life has a way of wearing on a person. Under the weight of losses, pressures, failures, and endless demands, something in our souls begins to wither. Passions dry up. The zeal of a beginning turns into a despairing end. A stone falls heavily down, cr...
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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 a ...
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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 degre...
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January 26, 2025
The Blood of Jesus Christ is probably the most sacred of all the treasures in the Kingdom of God, in heaven and on earth. It purchased our salvation, it cleanses us of sin, it breaks the powers of the enemy’s hold on us. It sanctifies the soul, it cl...
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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...
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January 26, 2025
Jesus Christ dwells deep in the heart of every person who invites him to. From that point forward he can be found deep within, and learning to commune with Jesus in your heart is the greatest treasure on this side of his return. As Jeanne Guyon instr...
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January 26, 2025
Keep choosing God.Then choose him again.And then again.This is your task, your daily calling, whatever else you might be up to. Everything around you is pulling against it like a riptide. I wish that One Great Choosing on our part would take care of ...
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January 26, 2025
We are not yet wholehearted; parts of us are still double-minded. This reality has brought anguish and near despair to saints, mystics, and Jesus-friends down through the centuries. Why can’t we stay in that one sweet place of union with Christ?Our e...
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January 6, 2025
“He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives” (Isa. 61:1). Jesus quoted this verse to announce his arrival.Friends—Jesus is healing and restoring your humanity right now, in anticipation of Eden’s return. Part of...
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January 5, 2025
Jesus ran the race before him because he wanted to, not simply because he had to or because the Father told him to. He ran “for the joy set before him,” which means he ran out of desire. To use the familiar phrase, his heart was fully in it.We call t...
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January 5, 2025
The Sacred Romance calls to us every moment of our lives. It whispers to us on the wind, invites us through the laughter of good friends, reaches out to us through the touch of someone we love. We’ve heard it in our favorite music, sensed it at the b...
Daily Reading
January 5, 2025
We long for adventure, to be caught up in something larger than ourselves, a drama of heroic proportions. This isn’t just a need for continual excitement, it’s part of our design. Few of us ever sense that our talents are being used to their fullest;...
Daily Reading
January 5, 2025
We long for beauty, and when the biblical writers speak of the New Earth, they use the most beautiful imagery they can. You can almost hear the agony of the writer trying to get it right while knowing he falls far short of what he sees. In the book o...
Daily Reading
January 5, 2025
I knew a man who as a young boy hated the idea of heaven. He would puzzle and embarrass his Sunday school teachers by stating quite boldly, whenever the subject of heaven was brought up, that he didn’t want to go there. Finally, one of them had the s...
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January 5, 2025
One morning, I was preparing one of my lectures. John’s talk the week before had deeply touched people with the understanding of God’s grace and love for them. A friend came by the table where I was sitting in our neighborhood coffee shop and kidding...
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January 5, 2025
Besides these false comforters that we abide in, there are also the less-wild lovers that are intertwined with our heart because they give us an identity. Whether it be accumulating wealth, being seen as profound due to our knowledge and cleverness o...
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January 5, 2025
Two years ago, worn out by three years of spiritual battle, I found myself asking the question this way: “Jesus, if your Spirit abides in me, why do I so often feel alone and you seem so far away?” What came to me in response were Jesus’ words in Joh...
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January 5, 2025
Every courtship, at least every healthy one, is moving toward a deeper heart intimacy that is the ground for the consummation of the relationship spiritually, emotionally, and physically. Remember—the intimacy and adventure plays out differently for ...
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January 5, 2025
God’s imagery of going before us lets us know that he desires us to go on a journey. This is not so frightening. Most of us are aware that the Christian life requires a pilgrimage of some sort.We know we are sojourners. What we have sometimes not giv...
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January 5, 2025
Resignation is not just the sigh that groans with something gone wrong. Such a sigh can be redemptive if it does not let go of the Haunting we have all experienced of something presently lost. Resignation is the acceptance of the loss as final. It is...
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January 5, 2025
Once we begin thinking of all the deceptions the enemy is about with regard to our lives, we have a tendency to become obsessed with him, fearful of what he is going to do next. Once we take him seriously, he switches from his tactic of “I’m not here...
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January 5, 2025
Satan uses the Arrows that strike all of us this side of the Fall and weaves them into a story line to convince us that we cannot live without the disguise of our false self, the role we are playing out in what John and I have been calling our “small...
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January 5, 2025
Satan continues to use the evil that he himself creates to tell us a very different story. In his version, good is gained through our own understanding, not through a relationship with God. Life is gained by appropriating what we can see with our own...
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January 5, 2025
God and Satan each have a design, a battle plan, to capture our heart’s devotion.The intimacy, beauty, and adventure of the Sacred Romance are placed and nurtured in the deepest longings of our heart by God himself. God’s grand strategy, birthed in h...
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January 5, 2025
Being unable to defeat God through raw power, Satan’s legions decide to wound God as deeply as possible by stealing the love of his Beloved through seduction. And having “seduced them to his party,” to ravish them body and soul; and having ravished t...
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January 5, 2025
And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called ...
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January 5, 2025
Our souls were made to live in the Larger Story, but as Chesterton discovered, we have forgotten our part:We have all read in scientific books, and indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name. This man walks about the str...
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January 5, 2025
The gospel says that we are God’s Beloved, his Intimate Allies, and we created a cosmic crisis. It says we, too, were stolen from our True Love and that he launched the greatest campaign in the history of the world to get us back. God created us for ...
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January 5, 2025
Consider just two essential realities that flow from this fact. First, we are created in the image of God, or more precisely, as a reflection of the Trinity. If we really understood this wonderful truth deep in our hearts, it would probably bring rev...
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January 5, 2025
I am my beloved’s and his desire is for me.—Song of SongsWhatever else she felt, Helen of Troy must have felt wanted.Two kingdoms went to war over her; thousands of men gave up their lives so that one might have her. Hers was “the face that launched ...