Stepping Stones Daily Devotional

Bringing Our Restless Hearts to God Most of us can concentrate long enough on a specific task in order...

Finding Out Who We Really Are The Hebrew people entered the desert feeling themselves to be a united and...

The Gentle Slope to Nothing Screwtape reveals Nothing: The Christians describe the Enemy as one ‘without whom Nothing is...

Higher Ways, Certain Promises “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the...

Making Peace Within Isn’t it wonderful news, brothers and sisters, that we come to God not by our perfection,...

The Humility of Jesus I cannot too earnestly plead with my reader, if possibly his attention has never yet...

The Root of Christlike Living Is it any wonder that the Christian life is so often feeble and fruitless,...

Half-Hearted Desires If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of...

The Gift We Don’t Want Some kind of falling, what I call “necessary suffering,” is programmed into the full...

Empty to Be Filled This is the true self-denial to which our Savior calls us, the acknowledgment that self...

Choosing Trust in the Silence I don’t (and never could) understand everything about God. But I can trust the...

Joy When the World Shakes Look at how the Holy Spirit can protect Christians from their outward circumstances. What...

When Trouble Becomes the Teacher God uses many ways to grab our attention. Usually His way is gently persuasive....

Lower to Rise Brethren, here is the path to the higher life. Down, lower down! This was what Jesus...

Worshiping with Others You’ve probably noticed that the entire Lord’s Prayer is written in the plural. Its very first...

The Gift of Rhythm The humans live in time, and experience reality successively. To experience much of it, therefore,...

Learning to Give Ourselves We always seem to be better at giving than becoming. We can give love even...

Growing Through Imperfection We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right. That might...

The Trap of Endless Novelty Screwtape shows how the pleasure of change is corrupted into a demand for novelty:...

Being Empowered to Face Our True Self There is a way of turning to God that is a form...

The Downward Path to Growth By denying their pain, avoiding the necessary falling, many have kept themselves from their...

The Thrill Is Gone What is more (and I can hardly find words to tell you how important I...

The Way of the Wound Some have called this principle of going down to go up a “spirituality of...

Guarding Our Words In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is...

The Safety of Integrity “Is this person the same on the inside as he or she seems to be...