Stepping Stones Daily Devotional

Sooner or later you will have to put God first in your life, that is to say, your own...

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

REFOCUS Begin with silence, stillness, and centering before God. You may wish to use a prayer like David used...

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled...

When you embrace a dear one you do not stop to meditate how and why you love–you just love...

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

To enter into God’s dance of exuberant joy and fullness of life we must descend. This descent is a...

If you are faithful to be a good steward over what God has placed in your hands today, he...

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

Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to...

In the life of the Curé of Ars, Jean Marie Vianney, there is a story of an old peasant...

From this inner conversation (you can do it if you wish), give it the following short prayer: “Lord Jesus...

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...