The Daily Devotional
Why Celebration Is the Key to Sustaining Spiritual Disciplines
True celebration is an outward expression of our inner confidence that despite life’s hardships, God is good, and there is reason to have joy.
Ezra Byer
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How Should I Make Important Decisions?
The older we get, the more independent we become. This is both good and bad. It’s good when it comes to 99.7% of the basic choices, but it’s bad when it comes to the big decisions. The larger the decision, the more outside wisdom is needed.
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What Is True Servant Leadership?
Because Christ served us out of a genuine heart of love, we are to serve others with the same type of genuineness. We serve not to receive but to glorify God through our service and seek the other person's highest good.
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Why Confession Really Is Good for the Soul
When we act like confessing a common sin to someone is beyond embarrassing, we often betray an inherent belief in our own goodness.
The Daily Devotional
Why Servant Leadership Can Actually Be Self-Serving
Because Christ served us out of a genuine heart of love, we are to serve others with the same type of genuineness. We serve not to receive but to glorify God through our service and seek the other person's highest good.
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Why Christian Submission Leads to Liberation
Submission doesn’t mean we become a doormat for others, but it does confront our most basic selfish tendencies.
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Why Solitude Is the Cure for Isolation
Solitude is a jolt to our souls. It helps us break through the distractions of life and brings us face-to-face with who we are and how God sees us.
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Should Christians Be Minimalists?
Minimalism is a needed pushback on materialism. However, minimalism in and of itself isn’t life-giving. Christian simplicity is what is needed.
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Why Serious Study Might Be the Key to Your Spiritual Growth
The real purpose of studying isn’t to make you smarter. It’s to enrich your understanding of reality so that you can love God and others at the highest level possible.
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What Is the Primary Blessing of Fasting?
Fasting weakens the flesh, strengthening our spirits to resist temptation and see reality as God sees it.
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How Do I Increase My Desire to Pray?
God doesn’t just call you to prayer; He wants to meet you in prayer.
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How Should I Practice Meditation?
Sunday Christians often avoid meditation because they fear it makes them too vulnerable, bringing them face-to-face with their deepest thoughts. Monday Christians run toward meditation, for it’s in this discipline that they experience a higher enjoyment of God and see life as it really is.