Stepping Stones Daily Devotional

From Ritual to Reality Mark records three instances in which Jesus tries to prepare his disciples for his suffering...

A Beautiful and Perplexing Witness The way early disciples lived with mystified people around them because the disciples seemed...

Nothing Off-Limits Many of us have absorbed tacit or explicit taboos about what we are permitted to bring into...

The Valley Is the Place of Vision Lord, High and Holy, Meek and Lowly, Thou hast brought me to...

Immersed in Prayer Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond...

The Echoes of Prayer There is no end to a prayer. It echoes on forever in your soul. Long...

Immersed in Prayer Prayer is larger than any of us. It is less a question of bringing prayer into...

Enough Light for the Next Step Often we want to be able to see into the future. We say,...

Set Ablaze by Love What the world longs for from the Christian religion is the witness of men and...

When Prayer Comes Alive It is the answered prayer which brings praying out of the realm of dry, dead...

Help Me, Spirit of God O SPIRIT OF GOD, Help my infirmities; When I am pressed down with a...

Stepping over Our Wounds Sometimes we have to “step over” our anger, our jealousy, or our feelings of rejection...

Streams in the Dry Places Psalm 84 is a beautiful and liberating psalm. One of the glorious themes of...

Bold Prayers, Bold Community Remarkable things happened when the early church prayed. The fourth chapter of the book of...

It Takes a Long Time to Become Young In 1966 a retrospective of Picasso’s paintings was exhibited in Cannes,...

Flesh Become Word The word must become flesh, but the flesh also must become word. It is not enough...

Better Than All Good Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be...

Celebrities Impress—Saints Inspire Christopher Lasch suggested that there is a profound difference between celebrities and saints. In a narcissistic,...

When You Feel Unfit for Grace O LORD, Thou knowest my great unfitness for service, my present deadness, my...

Carrying Others in Prayer When we say to people, “I will pray for you,” we make a very important...

You Are Already Favored Gabriel begins as he always begins, as God always begins (since this is God’s message,...

Seeking God or Chasing the Feeling? When we are hungry to experience God’s loving presence near us and believe...

Compassion That Moves Every time the Gospels mention that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions or felt sorry...

Clinging to the Cross, Living in Holiness O LORD GOD, Thou art my protecting arm, fortress, refuge, shield, buckler....

Words That Come from the Heart Words that do not become flesh in us remain “just words”. They have...