Daily Reading
May 19, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. My experiences with the opposite sex in middle school and high school weren’t so great. When I was fifteen, I was thrilled when a young man noti...
Daily Reading
May 12, 2022
God has given each of us an inheritance in Christ. Jesus came that we might have life and life to the full. When we get into relationships with people or institutions or into patterns of behavior or addictions that are not God’s highest for us, they ...
Daily Reading
May 8, 2022
Now for one of the most beautiful mysteries of the feminine heart: women minister something to the heart of God that men do not. Look at the record. There was an event that took place in the life of Jesus that he said should be told whenever the go...
Daily Reading
April 21, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. To be a girl is a glorious thing. Yes, we bear a suffering that guys do not know. This is not a reason to envy them or to curse ourselves. (By t...
Daily Reading
April 5, 2022
Friendship is risky, costly. Friendship is meant to provide a refuge from loneliness, and a respite from self-criticism and the critique of a never-satisfied world. Friendship is a relationship of mutual enjoyment. It is a place where our hearts don’...
Daily Reading
March 24, 2022
Things are not what they were meant to be. East of Eden, we have kept moving east and come all the way ’round, finding the garden utterly lost and cruelly unrecognizable. We were all born into this world. We came in gasping for air, and we are gaspin...
Daily Reading
March 14, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. I encourage you to risk dreaming and writing your dreams down. Once you get started, you’ll find there are things you want. And if you can’t get...
Daily Reading
March 12, 2022
God is rewriting my story. My story is his story, really, and one day he will tell it in all of its hidden splendor. I will get to hear his take on my days, his perception on what was going on underneath and behind the scenes. He will share with me t...
Daily Reading
March 10, 2022
The man possessed by many demons asked Jesus, “Why are You interfering with me?” You know the answer. It’s the same one He has for you. Because He loved him. And He loves you. If we are to find healing and true joy, we need to lean into His interfe...
Daily Reading
February 27, 2022
We live in a larger story. This is not the land of the white picket fences with a chicken in every pot. We don’t live in Oz or the Kansas of its wizard. There is an incredibly good ending to our story, but it often isn’t on this side of eternity. Joy...
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February 22, 2022
Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes t...
Daily Reading
February 17, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Most little girls at some point dream of living in a fairy tale. The big surprise when we grow up is not that the fairy tale was a myth but that...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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 reve...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! I love Christmastime. The twinkle lights. The world all dressed up. The carols cheer us as they play over loudspeakers wherever we go. Everyone ...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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 ve...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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 th...
Daily Reading
September 11, 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...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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 b...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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 ...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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 Hi...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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? H...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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 br...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! As Jesus was telling the disciples that He was going to Jerusalem to be killed, they were utterly dismayed, and understandably so. Remember Jes...
Daily Reading
September 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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...
Daily Reading
August 26, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! 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 ...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Reading
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...