Trade Your Cares for Calm
Listen to Today’s Devotion Could you use some calm? If so, you aren’t alone. We could all use these words of peace. Philippians 4 in verse 7: “the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,…
Speak Words of Life
Listen to Today’s Devotion Nathaniel Hawthorne came home heartbroken. He had just been fired from his job in the customhouse. His wife, rather than responding with anxiety, surprised him with joy. “Now you can write…
Show Up for Someone
Listen to Today’s Devotion After Albert Einstein’s wife died, his sister moved in to help with the household. For fourteen years she cared for him, allowing his valuable research to continue. When she suffered a…
Love Protects
Listen to Today’s Devotion Have you ever heard anyone gossip about someone you know? “Well, I heard that she…” “Oh, but didn’t you know that he…” Then all of a sudden it’s your turn. What…
A Cloak of Love
Listen to Today’s Devotion Can you look back over your life and see instances of God’s protection? My junior year of college I was fascinated by a movement of Christians. Some of my friends decided…
Agape Love
Listen to Today’s Devotion Paul reminded the church at Corinth the kind of love Christ offers to us: agape love that “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians…
Love Bears All Things
Listen to Today’s Devotion Wouldn’t it be great if love were like a cafeteria line? It would be easier. It would be neater. It would be painless and peaceful. But you know what? It wouldn’t…
Guard Your Thoughts
Listen to Today’s Devotion Life has a way of unloading its rubbish on us. Your boss expects too much. Your kids whine too much. Trash. Load after load of anger, guilt, pessimism, bitterness, anxiety. It…
Reason for Joy
Listen to Today’s Devotion As a believer in Christ, don’t focus on yourself. Focus on all that you have in Christ! “How’s life?” someone asks. And we who’ve been resurrected from the dead say, “Well, things…
The Cure for Selfishness
Listen to Today’s Devotion Forgive me for being the one to tell you, but you’re infected. You’re a diseased carrier. You have a case of—brace yourself—selfishness! Don’t believe me? When you look at a group…