Stepping Stones Daily Devotional

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

Wickedness and trust Matthew 6:19-34 Many are the woes of the wicked but the Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the...

There is no end to a prayer. It echoes on forever in your soul. Long after the visible demonstration...

Prayer is larger than any of us. It is less a question of bringing prayer into our hearts than...

REFOCUS Begin with two minutes of silence. Breathe deeply and slowly while you focus on the words from Psalm...

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 Psalm 146 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! Psalm 146:1 The...

What the world longs for from the Christian religion is the witness of men and women daring enough to...

It is the answered prayer which brings praying out of the realm of dry, dead things, and makes praying...

READ Rom 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Hebrews 4:14-16 We have a great...

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 Psalm 84 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place...

Remarkable things happened when the early church prayed. The fourth chapter of the book of Acts records just one...

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

REFOCUS Make the Great Commandment a source of prayer. Focus on God’s presence while you repeat several times its...

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

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

To be in his presence Psalm 84 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I...

Christopher Lasch suggested that there is a profound difference between celebrities and saints. In a narcissistic, self-pleasing culture, we...

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

REFOCUS Use the phrase, “I am Yours and You are mine” as an affirmation of your relationship with God....

NEED OF GRACE O LORD, Thou knowest my great unfitness for service, my present deadness, my inability to do...

“When we say to people, “I will pray for you,” we make a very important commitment. The sad thing...