Stepping Stones Daily Devotional

A Model in Suffering Matthew 26:36– 46 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground...

His closest companions, those he trusted the most, could not keep awake with him for one hour. His hour...

Prayer is not controlled. We are the ones controlled, called upon to submit to a mysterious inward process, to...

REFOCUS Allow God’s Word to speak to you as you breathe deeply as say several times, “Peace, Be Still.”...

Heaven Desired O MY LORD, May I arrive where mean of grave cease and I need no more to...

A Ministry of Healing and Reconciliation How does the Church witness to Christ in the world? First and foremost...

In His Image Psalm 17 Then God said, ” Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.”...

You put me under the wing of a saint, and I have stayed there. You used his hands to...

When life is very difficult, people sometimes lay hold of resources that they never knew they had. The easy-going,...

READ Psalm 119:32 I run in the path of your commands, for you have broadened my understanding. John 20:1-4...

Earth and Heaven O LORD, I live here as a fish in a vessel of water, only enough to...

Becoming the Church of the Poor When we claim our own poverty and connect our poverty with the poverty...

Holiness and Love Matthew 22:36-40 And he has given us this command; Whoever loves God must also love his...

Repentance… requires two things: humility and trust. Repentance requires the humility involved in the confession that I am a...

My beginning advice to you is this: Always read the Scriptures with a heart ready to repent. Receive the...

REFOCUS Begin with Silence, stillness, and centering before God for two minutes. READ 2 Corinthians 4:8-16< We often suffer,...

Lord’s Day Evening MOST HOLY GOD, May the close of an earthly sabbath remind me that the last of...

Who are the Poor? The poor are the center of the Church. But who are the poor? At first...

I Love You for You Luke 15:11-24 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned...

But as that grace operates, it cannot (save through a miracle of the same grace) be other than painful,...

God, I surrender to you the habits and sins that, like frost, chill my soul and cause your life-giving...

REFOCUS As you focus on the truth that God is with you, breathe deeply and say this affirmation several...

The Lord’s Supper GOD OF ALL GOOD, I bless thee for the means of grace; teach me to see...

Going to the Margins of the Church Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church,...

God the Source of Truth Psalm 1 He is like a tree planted by the streams of water. Psalm...