Daily Devotionals


  • Forward Day By Day - March 18, 2024
    Cyril of Jerusalem had a great interest in forming catechumens in the Christian faith. In a fourth-century world hostile to Christianity, committing to Jesus required a lifelong commitment. Nowadays, many congregations prepare adults for baptism duri [...]
  • Forward Day By Day - March 17, 2024
    Something about Jesus made people need to see him. Stories about Jesus spread throughout Galilee, Jerusalem, and beyond the Jordan. He proclaimed a new manner of life called the kingdom of God: a new vision for the world where all are blessed, belove [...]
  • Forward Day By Day - March 16, 2024
    Lent’s reflective season is almost over, but today’s Exodus reading reminds us that even when we are not explicitly looking for God, God looks for us. In fact, even when we are running away like Moses, God shows up and reminds us of the Holy One� [...]
  • Forward Day By Day - March 15, 2024
    Vincent de Paul had a modest upbringing, with his father selling the family’s livestock so Vincent could attend seminary. Through a series of experiences, the seventeenth-century saint moved from ministry in parishes to founding an order that speci [...]

  • Master in Heaven - March 19, 2024
    Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower announced in 2022 that all migrant domestic workers must be given at least one rest day a month that employers couldn’t compensate them for instead of giving them the day off. Employers, however, were concerned th [...]
  • “I AM” - March 18, 2024
    Jack, a professor of philosophy and literature, had a brilliant mind. He’d declared himself an atheist at the age of fifteen and in adulthood adamantly defended his “atheistic faith.” Christian friends tried to persuade him. As Jack put it, “ [...]
  • Kingdom-Minded Leadership - March 17, 2024
    When I joined a group of Christian children’s book authors who prayed for one another and helped spread the word about each other’s books, some people said we were “foolish for working with competitors.” But our group was committed to kingdom [...]
  • Share Your Faith - March 16, 2024
    In 1701, the Church of England founded the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in order to send missionaries around the globe. The motto they chose was transiens adiuva nos—Latin for “Come over and help us!” This has been the call on gosp [...]

  • Will I Bring Myself Up to This Level?
    …perfecting holiness in the fear of God. —2 Corinthians 7:1 “Therefore, having these promises….” I claim God’s promises for my life and look to their fulfillment, and rightly so, but that shows only the human perspective on them. God’s [...]
  • The Servant’s Primary Goal
    We make it our aim…to be well pleasing to Him. —2 Corinthians 5:9 “We make it our aim….” It requires a conscious decision and effort to keep our primary goal constantly in front of us. It means holding ourselves to the highest priority year [...]
  • The Master Will Judge
    We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ… —2 Corinthians 5:10 Paul says that we must all, preachers and other people alike, “appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” But if you will learn here and now to live under the scrutin [...]
  • The Discipline of Dismay
    As they followed they were afraid. —Mark 10:32 At the beginning of our life with Jesus Christ, we were sure we knew all there was to know about following Him. It was a delight to forsake everything else and to throw ourselves before Him in a fearle [...]