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}
Heal Us, Jesus
I have to confess, dear reader, that I've put off writing today's devotional as long as I possibly could. I will blame it on writer's block, but the truth is...
Looking Dark
It’s the fourth Sunday of Lent. By now, it’s often getting a bit tedious for me. The Lenten practices I took up with such fervor have started to feel a...
Healing Balm of Confession
Confession. When I made my first Confession, I cried. I could barely get through it. Almost 25 years later, I still cry as I confess my sins to the priest....
More than Rules
I'm a total rule-follower. Growing up, I was the goody-goody who used my manners, who never once got detention, who trembled inside and fought back tears at even the slightest...
The Tone of the Voice in My Head
What tone do you use when you read Christ’s words? In your head, as you’re reading the Gospels, when Jesus speaks, what tone of voice do you assign to Him?...
True Freedom
Let’s be honest: who among us has ever rolled their eyes and yawned when words like “statutes” and “ordinances” are mentioned? At best, these rules might be seen as the...
Forgive Now
“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” As a part of the “Our Father,” you have probably prayed that line of prayer more times than...
What Are You Longing For?
With Lent nearly halfway over, it’s a good time to take a look at today’s psalm, then at our-Lent-selves, then back at the psalm again. Are our voluntary Lenten disciplines...
Sticking by the Eucharist
For today's readings, we have the Ten Commandments juxtaposed with Christ driving out the money changers in the temple. Two incredibly significant moments in the Bible. The founding of the...
Rejoice. And Be Free.
I will never forget our family vacation to Wyoming when I was 20 years old. The only reason I went with my parents and younger sister in the first place...
Christ the Cornerstone
"The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone." In construction terminology (which you may be completely unfamiliar with, as I am), the cornerstone is the first stone set...
In God We Trust
"Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD . . . He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does...
