Daily Devotionals

  • Forward Day By Day - March 26, 2025
    I grew up watching the TV show Matlock with my grandmother. Episode after episode chronicled the old hometown southern lawyer who gets drawn into court cases that, at times, seem like too much for him. I watched the courtroom scenes with the greatest [...]
  • Forward Day By Day - March 25, 2025
    Don’t panic—you only have nine more months to shop for Christmas! The Feast of the Annunciation is quite literally where the story begins about what God is up to in Nazareth. God is putting a plan into place to heal the rift between God and human [...]
  • Forward Day By Day - March 24, 2025
    As someone who creates a lot of social media content, I can attest to all the “surefire” ways peddled to people about getting closer to God. There are plenty of folks out there with plenty of good intentions, and they all know what it takes for u [...]
  • Forward Day By Day - March 23, 2025
    I do not have an accurate count of the things that have caused me to stop and look again. Solar eclipses, northern lights, sunrises, and sunsets are a few of these. I’ve also been extraordinarily blessed to travel for much of my life, experiencing [...]

  • Shaped by God - March 26, 2025
    Dan Les, a lifelong potter, creates decorative vessels and sculptures. His award-winning designs are inspired by the town in Romania where he lives. Having learned the craft from his father, he made this comment about his work: “[Clay needs to] fer [...]
  • Setting Our Minds - March 25, 2025
    Everyone has a shadow side, and it appears AI chatbots have one as well. A New York Times columnist asked an artificial intelligence chatbot what its “shadow self” (hidden, repressed part of its personality) was like. It told the writer, “I wan [...]
  • A Modern-Day Paul - March 24, 2025
    George Verwer’s life changed dramatically when he became a follower of Christ during a Billy Graham crusade in 1957. Soon after his conversion, he began Operation Mobilization (OM), and in 1963 the mission sent 2,000 missionaries to Europe. OM went [...]
  • Being Still Before God - March 23, 2025
    I love the idea of stillness. Of quiet. Of resting in the refuge of God’s care (Psalm 46:1). And an often-quoted passage from Psalm 46 teaches us that quieting our hearts, our minds, and our souls is integral to knowing God:  “Be still, and know [...]