Devotionals

A Vertical View of Money
March 2, 2023 | Devotionals

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it (Psalm 24:1, niv). How many of your decisions flow from your view of money? From your vacation plans to your lunch plans. From your clothing options to your stock options. From what you’re putting away into retirement every year to what you’re putting into the offering […]

The One and Only
February 28, 2023 | Devotionals

You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you (Song of Solomon 4:7, esv). Three hundred million people in America. More than seven billion in the world. And only one you. Is that how you feel about your wife or husband? To the man and woman depicted in the Song of Solomon, […]

And When You Fast
February 23, 2023 | Devotionals

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke” (Isaiah 58:6, esv)? “And when you fast,” Jesus said, before teaching a few, practical pointers on the subject (Matthew 6:16). His first words […]

Fox Patrol
February 21, 2023 | Devotionals

Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom (Song of Solomon 2:15, esv). Sometimes the biggest things we worry about are not the biggest things to be worried about. This is true in life, in business, in church, and in every endeavor of any importance. […]

Hope Lives On
February 16, 2023 | Devotionals

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13, esv). What happens when life doesn’t go the way you want? Your answer will reveal where your hope lies—where it’s truly anchored. We can try to […]

Love Stops at Nothing
February 14, 2023 | Devotionals

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things […]

Missing Anything?
February 9, 2023 | Devotionals

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing” (Luke 15:4–5, esv). Would this picture […]

Stoned
February 7, 2023 | Devotionals

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say” (John 8:3–5, esv)? The […]

Dream Job
February 2, 2023 | Devotionals

Not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up, but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another (Psalm 75:6–7, esv). How do you feel about your job? Love it? Hate it? Wish you could quit? Terrified of being fired? Listen: it doesn’t […]

Nine Words to Live By
January 31, 2023 | Devotionals

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people (1 Peter 2:15, esv). We’re all natural-born rebels with a built-in resistance to submission. To complicate matters, the concept of submission has been hijacked by some selfish-minded, even cruel authoritarians who have twisted and […]