Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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 ...
Daily Reading
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?...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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....
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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 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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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 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 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 givi...
Daily Reading
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 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 ...
Daily Reading
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...