Daily Reading
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 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 16, 2026
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim ...
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September 16, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. (Isaiah 64:8) We are created in an intimat...
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September 16, 2026
Our glorious and good God reveals Himself to us in His Word not only as our Father who fathers us with beautiful intention but also as the One who mothers us with mercy. For this is what the Lord says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and th...
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September 16, 2026
We go through dry seasons. Every one of us. Seasons when it is difficult to sense the Presence of God as we once did. Seasons when our prayers become harder to utter as they seem to bounce off the walls around us. Seasons when our prayers remain un -...
Daily Reading
September 16, 2026
This isn’t about yet another thing you have to do in order to become— you name it. No. It’s about responding to an invitation from Jesus to reveal to you who He is with more clarity, color, and depth, and to reveal to you who you are with awe and won...
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September 16, 2026
I love Christmastime. The twinkle lights. The world all dressed up. The carols cheer us as they play over loudspeakers wherever we go. Everyone seems to be in a better mood. Plus, I love presents, both giving them and receiving them, and in my marria...
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September 16, 2026
From Genesis to Revelation, Jesus is described as the Good Shepherd. He is your Good Shepherd. Shepherding is not what Jesus does, it is who He is. Let’s explore this beautiful analogy. Sheep know their shepherd’s care from their long history of his...
Daily Reading
September 16, 2026
Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given in Jesus’s honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. Then Mary took abou...
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September 16, 2026
Your life, as you know, is a story. “Story work” has become a staple in most healing communities, including the church. This is good; this is very hopeful. “Tell me your story” isn’t only the province of therapists; it is what any friend offers anoth...
Daily Reading
September 16, 2026
Every child born into this world comes in with a question in their hearts. I came in with it. So did you. Girls do. Boys do. We all do. It is the deepest question of the universe, and it is simply, Do you love me? Or better said, Am I worthy of love?...
Daily Reading
September 16, 2026
I have written about the heart of devotion that is the true motivation for a servant of Christ’s. But what is the heart of the One we serve? How does the King feel about His charge? How does our God feel toward His servant? You already know the answ...
Daily Reading
September 16, 2026
As Jesus was telling the disciples that He was going to Jerusalem to be killed, they were utterly dismayed, and understandably so. Remember Jesus’s comforting words to them and to us? “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe a...
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September 16, 2026
J. I. Packer writes, “To those who are Christ’s, the holy God is a loving Father; they belong to his family; they may approach him without fear and always be sure of his fatherly concern and care. This is the heart of the New Testament message.” That...
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September 16, 2026
Serving will cost you. Laying your life down will cost you. It is meant to cost you. Love isn’t cheap; it cost the Father everything to send His Son for us. It cost Jesus everything to rescue us. In our grateful, awe-filled heart, our response to God...
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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...
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November 30, 2025
We were meant to remember together, in community. We need to tell our stories to others and to hear their stories told. We need to help each other with the interpretation of the Larger Story and our own. Our regular times of coming together to worshi...
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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 degr...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 o...
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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 ...
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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;...
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...