Begin Your Day in Prayer
Sign up to receive our daily devotions straight to your inbox. It's the best way to begin.
{formbuilder:MTAxMDE1}
Loving your daily devo email? Feeling a tug to talk about the devotions with friends? Join us on the BIS app. We read the devotions together every day, and share our takeaways with each other. It’s the best, and completely free. We’d love to see you there.
Is Your Room Ready?
“Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ Then he will...
Waiting To Be Quenched
My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. O God, you are my God whom I seek; for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the...
Who Do You Reflect?
Let love be sincere, hate what is evil, hold onto what is good; love one another with mutual affection; anticipate one another in showing honor. // Romans 12:9-10 I pushed aside the...
Live For Heaven
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul. // 1 Peter 2:11 For more than a decade, I...
Love is Not Always So Complicated
Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another intensely from a pure heart. // 1 Peter 1:22 It’s amazing what a...
Keds, 1% Better, and the Pursuit of Holiness
As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct, for it is written, Be holy because I am holy. // 1 Peter 1:16...
His Look of Love
Jesus, looking at him, loved him . . . // Mark 10:21 It was 2:30 p.m. My toddler was hysterical, having woken up early from his nap courtesy of his...
Doubts Depart In Light of the Trinity
When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. // Matthew 28:17 After a long day at a retreat center with deacon candidates and wives, we gather for Eucharistic Adoration,...
Accepting the Kingdom Like A Child
“Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the...
Knowing When To Say “Yes”
But let your “Yes” mean “Yes” and your “No” mean “No,” that you may not incur condemnation. // James 5:12 I could feel the people-pleaser in me begin to bellow...
Cutting Sin Out Of Our Lives
"If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the...
Living Every, Every Minute
“You have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.” // James 4:14 I felt the familiar...
