Stepping Stones Daily Devotional

Living the Moment to the Fullest Our blessed Lord experienced a sinking of heart and a melting of soul....

Living the Moment to the Fullest Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens...

The Center Holds Recently I found myself in conversation with a young man who was a senior at a...

Tools for the Journey Discipline in the Christian life is not a luxury. Without it we become confused, lose...

Spiritual Choices Choices. Choices make the difference. Two people are in the same accident and severely wounded. They did...

A Different Kind of Life The persons and ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus himself, both rich in...

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...