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One Step at a Time

Editor’s note: It’s almost time for Pomp and Circumstance to start playing for our graduates! Before they don their caps and gowns… forward this devotion from Jesus Calling for Graduates to ...

Happily Sometimes After

Editor’s note: Dana White is a Jesus follower, the creator of the No Mess Decluttering Method, and (much to her own surprise) a Decluttering Expert. In her latest book Jesus ...

Whose Dream Will You Follow?

Editor’s note: It’s graduation season! People you know and love are launching into new seasons of life full of promise, hope, pressures, and dreams. Show them some love and share ...

Time Alone with Jesus

Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. — Luke 5:16 Often when I am under stress and pressure, I feel one of my greatest needs is to get a ...

Loving the Home You Have

Everything I have was first in a treasury inaccessible to me. Unlocked by grace,bestowed by kindness, given with mercyto be re-gifted again and again — pressed down and running overlike ...

Spend Your Life

On Saturday nights, our family gathers at my parents’ house to eat and laugh and drink to grace. My sisters and their husbands come with their tribes and I with ...

When You Get an “SOS” Text from Your Child

The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. — Zephaniah 3:17 My eyes popped open and my heart raced when my phone buzzed at 1:00 a.m. ...

Let God Feed You

I knew I needed God to consume me more than my life currently was, but I didn’t know how to get more of Him. 12 years ago I was a ...

Prayer Combats Worry

Editor’s Note: In 1964, Margaret Fishback Powers wrote poem called, “Footprints”. It’s become a well-known and widely loved poem that has reminded those who read it and re-read it that ...

All Relationships Are Going Somewhere

Here’s something I heard recently. “Men move toward whatever makes them feel competent.” As soon as I heard that I knew it was true. Every man I know migrates toward ...

Becoming a Prayer Warrior Mom Starts With Thankfulness

Cultivating a heart of gratitude is central to your role as a Prayer Warrior Mom. As you become more thankful and effective in prayer, God will transform your family life ...

A Prayer for Moms

Compassionate Lord Jesus, I ask You to use these devotions to bless and help mothers — strengthening, encouraging, and comforting them as they go about their daily lives. Remind them ...

For the Bible Tells Me So

Helping Our Kids See Jesus in All of Scripture To me, it’s one of the scariest scenes in all of Scripture. No, it’s not Jonah getting swallowed up by a ...

People-Pleasing

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please Him. — 2 Corinthians 5:9 ESV Years ago, I wrote a book about living for ...

Missing Peace

In the very beginning, in that perfect garden God made for His family, there was no pain, stress, problems, or fear. (Laundry didn’t exist either, by the way.) The world ...

Get Your Praise On

Praise Defeats the Enemy I will declare Your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise You. — Psalm 22:22 NKJV One way to drive ...

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Free Bible Study through the Gospel of John with Megan Fate Marshman!

Free Bible Study through the Gospel of John with Megan Fate Marshman!

What if Jesus' words-I Am-are exactly the answers your heart is craving?

Join the OBS and get access to 8 study videos and other Bible study resources - all free when you sign up! Study starts 6/2