Stepping Stones Daily Devotional

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...

Readings for Reflection Do you want to get well? is a shocking question. Of course I want to be...

I believe with all my heart that the mystery of forgiveness is the entire Gospel. When you “get forgiveness,...

REFOCUS Tell the Lord the following as you focus on His presence. You may want to say it several...

Worship GLORIOUS GOD, It is the flame of my life to worship thee, the crown and glory of my...

Called out of Slavery The Church is the people of God. The Latin word for “church,” ecclesia, comes from...

Nothing Held Back Genesis 22:1-19 “Take you son, your only son Isaac, whom you love…Sacrifice him there as a...

This is hard. It is perhaps not so hard to forgive a single great injury. But to forgive the...

Our experience of grace represents a certain natural progression in the Christian life. Initially divine grace surrounds us without...