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Serving Others Leads to Deeper Healing

In the time I have been fortunate enough to be involved in Celebrate Recovery, I have seen thousands of people find freedom from all kinds of hurts, hang-ups, and habits. ...

Praying When the Unexpected Disillusions and Hope Wanes

Hope Is an Act of DefianceI don’t know where your hope is struggling. Maybe your beleaguered hope is for… A loved one to be saved A child to come home ...

Belief That vs. Belief In

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. — John 3:16This verse ...

Grace: Getting What We Deserve Least

Twenty years had passed since the time Judah and his brothers sold Joseph into slavery. He had no way of knowing that Joseph had risen above a series of misfortunes ...

Where Happiness is Found

Enjoy reading as well as listening to today’s devotion from Lara Casey’s book Make It Happen. You can also listen to it on your Alexa device by asking Alexa to ...

When the Unexpected Interrupts

Living ExpectantlyTrue stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. ~ Tom ...

Grace: Resist the Funk

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. — Colossians 4:6Thought for the Day: The reason I can ...

When the Unexpected Requires Risk

Stretching Beyond It’s strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them. —Edgar Rice BurroughsKeep Your Eyes on HebronHebron was a desert region rich with history ...

You're Invited to the Unexpected OBS!

You are good and what You do is good; teach me Your decrees. — Psalm 119:68I believe with all my heart that it’s possible for every Christian to learn how ...

When God Doesn’t Answer Our Prayers the Way We Want Him To

Editor’s Note: Laura Story’s life upended when her husband Martin was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The struggle that followed was very real and very hard, but it was in ...

He Is the Friend of Sinners

He Is the Friend of SinnersA lot of people never come to know Jesus as the friend of sinners, and as a result, they live with a figurative stiff neck.There ...

Devotions from the Lake and the Mountains: Friendship

Devotions from the Lake: Bonfire FriendsIt has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. — Daniel 4:2 ESVSmoky ...

Celebrate to Sustain Your Joy

Intense determination without celebration becomes your downfall Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing ...

When You Believe in God But Are Ashamed of Your Past

It’s Always the ShameAs a pastor, I’ve discovered that many people are dying slowly in a secret tomb of shame. Some are ashamed of their poor financial condition, plagued with ...

Focus on Jesus and Don't Look Down

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Sit & Listen Saturday’s from Devotionals Daily. Enjoy reading as well as listening to this week’s devotion from John Ortberg.Jesus immediately reached out His hand and ...

Choose Your Words Wisely

Read Proverbs 16:16-33Children say cruel things to each other. Very few of us escape our school years without getting our feelings hurt over something another child said to us. Often ...

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Face Uncertain Times with Unbreakable Courage

Join the FREE Online Bible Study and get access to 6 study videos and other Bible study resources - all free when you sign up! Study starts 10/5