Devotionals Daily Blog for Inspiration and Growth

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ can never be reduced to merely producing Christian character in ourselves or loving one another, as important as those things are. Being a disciple ...

Editor’s note: Healing is God’s business. The word may be painful when we are eager for healing to come now or when someone has gone on to Heaven without being ...

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Romans 12:10 1 Peter 4:8-10 1 Thessalonians 5:11Friendship involves effort on both parts.On your part. On theirs. Make your peace with this truth right now or you will ...

Focus on DeathYou might want to think about death. Although want is probably an exaggeration.Our younger son, Tim, broke his femur in a tricycle accident at nursery school at age ...

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. – Mark 10:45Husbands, love your ...

Editor’s Note: Phil Robertson doesn’t apologize for loving Jesus. He is unashamed about his past sins because he glories in the fact that they’re covered by Jesus and completely forgiven. ...

Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. The king loved ...

Let them turn the other cheek to those who strike them and accept the insults of their enemies. — Lamentations 3:30When people get angry or defensive they tend to make ...

Never will I leave you; Never will I forsake you. — Hebrews 13:5 Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being ...

This is the month that most of us celebrate love. But, love isn’t merely romantic. Let’s remember that the greatest love, the purest love, the most expansive, wildest, most radical ...

When we compare ourselves or compete with one another, it works against what God intends for us. We are designed for relationship — to be interdependent and supported by each ...

But if it doesn’t please you to worship the LORD, choose for yourselves today: Which will you worship — the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the ...

I didn’t plan to write books. Today’s call to courage? I need to be willing to write about some things I don’t want to share but feel nudged by God ...

When Jesus headed out into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil, He “was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness” (Matthew 4:1). Then, when the time of ...

Ironically, the strongest pressure to “grow fast,” instead of slow, came during the years when I started writing books about Jesus. I say this is ironic, because nothing Jesus ever ...

I had an eating disorder for six years. Anorexia was the name of my game. I never threw up; I couldn’t bring myself to do it. And it never got ...