Daily Reading
July 16, 2026
One of the most crippling convictions held by believers today is the idea that everything that happens is the will of God. It is a poisonous belief that will destroy your confidence in God; you will end up believing terrible things about him. The new...
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July 15, 2026
"Don't be afraid of embracing the disappointment you feel, old or new. Don't be scared of the unreasonable joy either. They're the highway markers home." We snort with disdain at such quaint sentiments, and our choice made, strike off down the strai...
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July 14, 2026
Something is happening to the human heart. You need to understand what it is if you would make sense of any of this. Human beings are by nature ravenous creatures; a famished craving haunts every one of us. We were created for utter happiness, joy...
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July 13, 2026
There is the joy of having someone save a place for us. We walk into a crowded room at church or at a dinner party and someone across the way waves us over, pointing to a chair he's held on to especially for us. For a moment we feel a sense of relief...
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July 12, 2026
Now — what is your part? What is your role in the Story? In truth, the only one who can tell you that is the Author. To find our lives, we must turn to Jesus. We must yield our all to him and ask him to restore us as his own. We ask his forgiveness f...
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July 11, 2026
The devil has more temptations than an actor has costumes for the stage. And one of his all-time favorite disguises is that of a lying spirit, to abuse your tender heart with the worst news he can deliver — that you do not really love Jesus Christ an...
Daily Reading
July 10, 2026
Aren't there times in your life that if you could, you would love to return to? I grew up in Los Angeles but spent my boyhood summers in Oregon where both my mother and father's parents lived. There was a beauty and innocence and excitement to those ...
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July 9, 2026
We human beings are made up of three interwoven parts. As Paul says, “May God himself ... sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess. 5:23). We are body, s...
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July 8, 2026
The book “Killing Lions” is a conversation between John and Sam Eldredge about the trials young men face. [John] The more you know yourself, the more this will prove an immensely helpful category. (And please, as Socrates urged, do not live an ...
Daily Reading
July 7, 2026
Athletes will tell you that working out is not the most important part of training. Recovery is. The number one cause of athletic injuries is the lack of recovery time between training sessions. Let me repeat this because it’s so counterintuitive — ...
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October 13, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! What we believe about ourselves matters. Are we worthy of being treated with respect? Yes we are. Every single one of us, no matter what our pas...
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October 12, 2026
Either (a) we’re blowing it, or (b) God is holding out on us. Or some combination of both, which is where most people land. Think about it. Isn’t this where you land, with all the things that haven’t gone the way you’d hoped and wanted? Isn’t it some...
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October 11, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! You have an enemy, whether you want to accept the fact or not. Satan and his forces know you, they know your story, and they prey upon your wea...
Daily Reading
October 10, 2026
This is a very dangerous moment, when God seems set against everything that has meant life to us. Satan spies his opportunity, and leaps to accuse God in our hearts. You see, he says, God is angry with you. He’s disappointed in you. If he loved you h...
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October 9, 2026
Today's Daily Reading is from Stasi's new book The Ladder of Love, available now — order your copy today! As partners with Christ and co- heirs, our posture toward the battle changes. We begin to ask, “What are my orders, God? What would You have me...
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October 8, 2026
Suppose there was a king who loved a humble maiden. The king was like no other king. No one dared breathe a word against him, for he had the strength to crush all opponents. And yet this mighty king was melted by love for a humble maiden. How could h...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 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...