Stepping Stones Daily Devotional

Our Disciplines Lead Us Home Going home is a lifelong journey. There are always parts of ourselves that wander...

Holiness as Presence Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world,...

Listening to Our Longing There are few things that help so much for conversing with Christ as silence. The...

Listening to Our Longing Much of our world’s noise and activity seems designed to silence the hungers and longings...

Sacred Silence For God alone my soul in silence waits; from him comes my salvation (Ps. 62:1). Thousands of...

The Infinite and the Finite Turn my heart from vanity, from dissatisfactions, from uncertainties of the present state to...

Harsh and Dreadful Love It is fashionable, especially among religious folks, to talk of love. It would be an...

Prayer Itself The great thing is prayer. Prayer itself. If you want a life of prayer, the way to...

The Love of Jesus O FATHER OF JESUS, Help me to approach thee with deepest reverence, not with presumption,...

Change of Heart Repentance is a word we often fail to understand, even in Christian circles. We usually think...

Unless a Grain of Wheat … How does a grain of wheat feel as it is planted in the...

A Lifelong Journey Conversion is going on all the time within us and within the world. The radical change...

A Cross to Bear Jesus says, “If anyone want to be a follower of mine, let him … take...

A Light in Dark Places It should be the work of Christians who believe in the paschal mystery to...

God, our Wall of Protection Christians tend to be on the defensive. They live in an alien world that...

Moving Towards God When life is very difficult, people sometimes lay hold of resources that they never knew they...

Faith Check There is no need to multiply examples of what is so patently an essential condition of the...

The Infinite and the Finite THOU GREAT I AM, Fill my mind with elevation and grandeur at the thought...

What Matters Most? Sooner or later you will have to put God first in your life, that is to...

Taking Our Faith Seriously What distinguishes the Christians whose faith is deep, burning, powerful, and luminous is seriousness. Seriousness...

Costly Grace Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession,...

Suffering for the Sake of Christ? You’re in Good Company Christ believed in suffering as the will of God....

Praying for Others Changes Us Now if you would only forgive their sin. But if not, please erase me...

The Jesus Prayer And this is our Beloved’s delight. Perhaps one of the things that most undermine the development...

Assurance About What We Do Not See Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its...