Daily Reading
January 5, 2025
Eventually this division of head and heart culminates in one of two directions. We can either deaden our heart or divide our life into two parts, where our outer story becomes the theater of the should and our inner story the theater of needs, the pl...
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January 5, 2025
When the young prophet Samuel heard the voice of God calling to him in the night, he had the counsel from his priestly mentor, Eli, to tell him how to respond. Even so, it took them three times to realize it was God calling. Rather than ignoring the ...
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January 5, 2025
The life of the heart is a place of great mystery. Yet we have many expressions to help us express this flame of the human soul. We describe a person without compassion as “heartless,” and we urge him or her to “have a heart.” Our deepest hurts we ca...
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April 4, 2023
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Your beauty is under siege. It is being harassed and taunted and mocked because it matters. You matter. The Enemy of your soul attacks the core ...
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March 27, 2023
God is coming. He has not abandoned us, and he never will. Yes, the pain of life is sometimes too intense to be borne. But when from that place we cry out to Jesus to save us, the heavens rejoice, the demons tremble in defeat, and the Holy Spirit who...
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March 24, 2023
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Sometimes I am absolutely amazed at how much Jesus loves people. Some days — okay, most days — people can be pretty odd. We are all living on the is...
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March 11, 2023
Do not give way to fear. (1 Peter 3:6) Isn’t that why we hide, why we strive, why we control, why we do anything but offer beauty? We are afraid. We have given way to fear. Just think about your life — why you do the things you do. Have you asked you...
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February 22, 2023
Ladies, you are the Bride of Christ ... and the Bride of Christ is a warring bride. Now, often the hardest person to fight for is ... yourself. But you must. Your heart is needed. You must be present and engaged in order to love well and fight on beh...
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February 13, 2023
We are loved. Born out of love, into love, to know love, and to be loved. Yes, we were born into a fallen, sorry world, which is at the same time more lovely than any fairy tale. It is both. And in this beautiful, heartbreaking world, God — the etern...
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January 21, 2023
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. The kingdom of God will not advance as it needs to advance without girls rising up and playing their role. Guys will not become the men they are...
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January 15, 2023
Jesus is worthy of our devotion and our thanks. Your Jesus is the One who rode into the depths of the darkest, most dangerous dungeon to rescue his True Love. He is the One who will ride again on a white steed with fire in his eyes and a flaming swor...
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January 12, 2023
We are thirsty, and that is a very good thing. It may not be comfortable, but it is good. If you aren’t aware of your hunger, you’re not very motivated to go to the banqueting table. If you aren’t aware of your thirst, you don’t seek something to dri...
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December 29, 2022
Sarah Young writes: “One thing that traps you in self-absorption is being overly concerned about how you look — in the mirror or in the eyes of others.” (Jesus Always: Embracing Joy in His Presence) I love learning from other people. Watching how a p...
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December 24, 2022
"Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will be with child ..." (Luke 1:30) No matter how troubled Mary was, her heart had been cultivated by faith, and she responded to the news with composure, dignity, and faith. She did not scr...
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December 12, 2022
God gave Eve a beautiful form and a beautiful spirit. She expresses beauty in both. Better, she expresses beauty simply in who she is. Like God, it is her essence. Stasi and I just spent a weekend together in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which boasts the th...
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December 2, 2022
Most of us are probably still laboring under the impression that freedom comes first in our circumstances, and then we can experience love, joy, peace, patience, and all the other wonderful fruits of the Spirit. Not so. God usually begins first with ...
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November 19, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Freedom is good; freedom is what you are made for. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves...
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November 13, 2022
Most Americans (80 percent) say they don’t have any dreams, and we can imagine why. Life can suck the dreaming right out of you. The living God wants to pour those dreams back in. Sixteen percent of Americans say they do have dreams, but they don’t w...
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October 29, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. I was driving last summer with some gals, all of whom are really pretty and slender and smart and have a lot of friends. (So, yeah, intimidating gal...
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October 9, 2022
One of the best ways to help us remember who our God is and who we are to him is to worship him. In worship, when we turn the gaze of our hearts away from ourselves and our needs and onto Jesus, a divine shift happens that brings a great good to our ...
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September 19, 2022
"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." (2 Cor. 3:18) I know, I know — most days it sure doesn’t feel like ever-...
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September 1, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Your mother is your primary role model. How she feels, what she thinks, and what she believes has a direct effect on you. What our mom feels abo...
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August 29, 2022
Part of our healing comes with forgiveness (of ourselves and others), and part of it comes with repentance. But first, we have to begin with how God sees us. How he sees you. Do you know? You are deeply and completely loved (Rom. 8:38–39) You are...
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August 23, 2022
We have fears below the surface that we don’t consciously know we have. God wants us to be free of them. How can we be? Well, he has made a way for us. It is the way of his love. His perfect love for us casts out all fear. "And so we know and rely o...
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August 20, 2022
There is a reason you have the desires you do. Some desires you share with many others. Many people want the same core, good things: a community, a relationship, a deeper walk with God. But many of your dreams and desires are yours alone. They have b...
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August 8, 2022
As a result of the wounds we receive growing up, we come to believe that some part of us, maybe every part of us, is marred. Shame enters in and makes its crippling home deep within our hearts. Shame is what makes us look away, so we avoid eye contac...
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July 24, 2022
In order for us to live in freedom and become the women we are to become, we need to receive God’s love even in our lowest places. Spiritual warfare is designed to separate you from the love of God. Its goal is to keep you from living in the freedom...
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July 13, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book, "Free to Be Me", helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. In order to have a life worth living, you need to be you. Not the parental, or friend, or boy-dictated version. Not the Internet-updated versi...
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June 29, 2022
When Jesus came onto the scene he turned misogyny (hatred of women) on its head. A rabbi at that time wouldn’t speak to a woman in public, not even his own wife (this is still true for orthodox rabbis). Even today, an orthodox Jewish man is forbidden...
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May 21, 2022
I know I am not alone in this nagging sense of failing to measure up, a feeling of not being good enough as a woman. Every woman I've ever met feels it — something deeper than just the sense of failing at what she does. An underlying, gut feeling of ...