Daily Devotionals

  • Forward Day By Day - January 21, 2025
    This is a difficult verse to wrestle with in 220 words or less, but I wanted to try because I think many of us have been afraid of unintentionally committing a sin that’s somehow unforgivable. But that is not what I hear Jesus saying. The scribes i [...]
  • Forward Day By Day - January 20, 2025
    The Message adds another sentence to this verse that helps me see the implication of Paul’s words: “Everything you are and think and do is permeated with Oneness.” Imagine what our lives, and what the world, would be like if we truly believed t [...]
  • Forward Day By Day - January 19, 2025
    In this last season of the liturgical cycle of light (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany), we celebrate the manifestation of Jesus’s glory as we focus on his life and mission. At the wedding feast in Cana, Jesus gives the first public sign, revealing who [...]
  • Forward Day By Day - January 18, 2025
    It’s easy, especially for those of us who have grown up in the church, to answer questions about Jesus with words we’ve learned over the years and avoid anything personal. When Jesus asks the disciples what people are saying about him, they reply [...]

  • The Gift of Trials - January 21, 2025
    The two men conquered human flight, but the Wright brothers’ journey to success was never easy. Despite countless failures, ridicule, money woes, and serious injury to one of them, the brothers weren’t stopped by the trials they faced. As Orville [...]
  • Let My People Go - January 20, 2025
    The acclaimed painting Let My People Go by Aaron Douglas uses vibrant colors of lavender, green, and gold, along with traditional African imagery, to tell the biblical story of Moses and connect it with Black Americans’ struggle for freedom and jus [...]
  • Still Fruitful for God - January 19, 2025
    There’s an old folktale about a woman who carried water home every day from a river using two buckets at either end of a long pole—one bucket new and solid, the other much older and cracked. When the woman got home, the new bucket was still full, [...]
  • Made Right with Jesus - January 18, 2025
    “We’re ready to board our flight to Montego Bay,” came the announcement. I was traveling as a speaker for and leader of a high school group on a missions trip to Jamaica. I reached into my backpack for my boarding pass and passport—and panic [...]