The Daily Devotional
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.
The Daily Devotional
Submission doesn’t mean we become a doormat for others, but it does confront our most basic selfish tendencies.
The Daily Devotional
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.
The Daily Devotional
Minimalism is a needed pushback on materialism. However, minimalism in and of itself isn’t life-giving. Christian simplicity is what is needed.
The Daily Devotional
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.
The Daily Devotional
Fasting weakens the flesh, strengthening our spirits to resist temptation and see reality as God sees it.
The Daily Devotional
God doesn’t just call you to prayer; He wants to meet you in prayer.
The Daily Devotional
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.
The Daily Devotional
Spiritual disciplines slow us down so that we can walk at the speed of God. They require hard work on the front end but produce a higher level of enjoyment in God in the long run. While they might seem like an added burden, they’re actually a wonderful blessing.
The Daily Devotional
When we only seek God’s hand, we grow self-centered and materialistic and lose sight of the character-forming process God is working in our lives. We reveal that what we really want from God is not more of him but more of what he can do.
The Daily Devotional
Don’t buy into the myth that you can’t change. You can. And the beautiful news is that God’s work in you is ongoing.
The Daily Devotional
When we’re highly judgy of others, we betray the fact that we do not grasp the depth of God’s love for us.