Daily Reading
January 1, 2022
True transformation cannot be forced from the outside. It’s an inside-out process. Who of us has not received or created a list of ways to live, eat, exercise, respond, seek God, grow, and change — and how long did it last, if it worked at all? Those...
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December 22, 2021
How God loves his people to ask him in faith — pressing in, continuing to ask no matter how long it takes, believing that he will come through for us. I just got off the phone with a friend who has been praying for her children to come to know Jesus ...
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December 12, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Like you, I have areas in my life that I want and need to change. But I’ve learned the freeing truth that God is not going to love me any more or a...
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December 7, 2021
Every woman knows now that she is not what she was meant to be. And she fears that soon it will be known — if it hasn't already been discovered—and that she will be abandoned. Left alone to die a death of the heart. That is a woman's worst fear — aba...
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November 23, 2021
Jesus is inviting us to relax into the beauty he has bestowed upon us and cease striving to attain a level of smooth perfection that looks wonderful on a doll or on a magazine cover but is not attainable in the living, breathing realm of humanity. Go...
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November 3, 2021
Unveiling our beauty really just means unveiling our hearts. It’s scary, for sure. That is why it is our greatest expression of faith, because we are going to have to trust Jesus—really trust him. We’ll have to trust him that we have a beauty, that w...
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October 31, 2021
You probably know what you have been afraid to entrust to God. When we surrender our fear, we are offering it to Jesus. We are saying, “This fear is too much fear for me to bear. I give it to you because I believe you are good and worthy of my trust....
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October 23, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Who do you think you are? Who are you on the road to becoming? Do you have a vision of who you could become? How does God see you? What is his visi...
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October 16, 2021
In cases of suffering, you can have understanding or you can have Jesus. If you insist on understanding, you usually lose both. When suffering enters into your life, take a deep breath. The very first thing to do is to invite Jesus into it. Pray, Jes...
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October 6, 2021
The story of Eve holds such rich treasures for us to discover. The essence and purpose of a woman are unveiled here in the story of her creation. These profound, eternal, mythic themes are written not just here in the coming of Eve, but in the soul o...
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September 21, 2021
Here is another startling freedom: we are free to fail. Let me say that again. We are free to fail. Because of Jesus, we can be free from the cages of other people’s expectations, demands, yokes, and judgments — even our own.This isn’t about getting ...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...