Stepping Stones Daily Devotional

Followers of Christ The way early disciples lived with mystified people around them because the disciples seemed to live...

Come to the Healing Waters Many of us have absorbed tacit or explicit taboos about what we are permitted...

The Coolidge Cat Plymouth Notch, Vermont is a village of just over 500 people. It is relatively unremarkable except...

Lord, High and Holy, Meek and Lowly, Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision, Where I live...

The Gift of Friendship Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a...

Wickedness and Trust Many are the woes of the wicked, but the Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the man who...

Prayer Echoes in the Soul There is no end to a prayer. It echoes on forever in your soul....

Prayer is Larger Than Any of Us It is less a question of bringing prayer into our hearts than...

Faith and the World O LORD, The world is artful to entrap, approaches in fascinating guise, of extends many...

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

To Know Him by Name Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! Psalm 146:1 The last five...

What the World Needs Now … What the world longs for from the Christian religion is the witness of...

Prayer’s Answer It is the answered prayer which brings praying out of the realm of dry, dead things, and...

Empathy and the Lepers Dr. Paul Brand was the son of missionaries who became a world-renowned surgeon. His best-known...

Weaknesses O SPIRIT OF GOD, Help my infirmities; When I am pressed down with a load of sorrow, perplexed...

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

Water in the Wilderness As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs;...

Prayer’s Powerful Result Remarkable things happened when the early church prayed. The fourth chapter of the book of Acts...

Maturing Perspective In 1966 a retrospective of Picasso’s paintings was exhibited in Cannes, France. Hundreds of his works, from...

God and Our Hearts’ Connection Emotions are tricky things. Some of us have been raised with the idea that...

Peril SOVEREIGN COMMANDER OF THE UNIVERSE, I am sadly harassed by doubts, fears, unbelief in a felt spiritual darkness....

To Be in His Presence The word must become flesh, but the flesh also must become word. It is...

To Be in His Presence Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather...

Sphere of Influence Christopher Lasch suggested that there is a profound difference between celebrities and saints. In a narcissistic,...

God’s Favor Gabriel begins as he always begins, as God always begins (since this is God’s message, not Gabriel’s),...