Today's Devotions

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Showcase: Assorted Treats

  • Worry +

    Do we trust God to take care of each and every one of our troubles, or do we act like… Read More
  • One Prayer Away: Yolanda Adams +

    Yolanda Adams effectively portrays the experiences of brokenness and longing for change I know there are times in your life,When… Read More
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Publications

Oh-the depth of the riches! by Julie Moore

I've said before how my husband is all hip to the latest movies because he loves to read the New York Times... well, the most recent film I was treated to was a crazy Norwegian number calledHeadhunters. Now, normally, I tend to drift off into an upright doze when faced with subtitles after nine in the evening, but this one held my attention like a slow-motion car crash.


It's about Roger Brown - a short but handsome guy who steals art. Normally, I don't notice if a guy is short or tall, because to me, everyone is tall...

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Fast Of Words: A Different Kind Of Fast by Sylvia Gunter

SylviaTime and again God brings me to my knees over my heart attitude expressed out of my mouth. More than once, God has led me to fast of negative, critical, judgmental, and complaining words. Why a fast of words? Is that a legitimate application of fasting? The Hebrew word fast means to cover the mouth. For me, it is harder to fast from words than from food. Abstaining from negative words may be as powerful as fasting from food, because it is a particular battlefield for most of us.

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Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Formation and the Restoration of the Soul by Dallas Willard

Dallas-Willard"The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul." 
(Ps. 19:7 NAS)

"He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake." 
(Ps. 23:3 NAS)

A RENEWED INTEREST IN SPIRITUALITY.

Currently there is much interest in spiritual disciplines and the process of spiritual formation. This derives from a sense of our urgent need for mental and emotional health, as well as spiritual depth, and from the simultaneous realization that recent standard practice of American Christianity is not meeting that

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Jesus is Lord: Scripture References

cloud1Is 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder:and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father,The Prince of Peace.

Mat 1:23 Behold a virgin shall be with Child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His Name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with us.

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Reflections to Consider

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Publications

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Music

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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Embracing God's Mystery +

    One of the sad aspects of humanity is our jadedness, Read More
  • Soaring by Surrendering +

    How do birds soar? Read More
  • Transcendence & Immanence +

    Scripture Isaiah 57:15 For this is what the high and exalted One says— Read More
  • October Devotional: Deliverance +

    Isaiah 49: 8 This is what the Lord says: Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Transforming this World: The Hope of Glory by NT Wright +

    Wright confronts the perspective that this world doesn’t matter, and that we live only to be in heaven. He shows… Read More
  • What is Good in a World that Defies Hope: a talk by NT Wright +

    This is the second part of three talks by NT Wright at Harvard University in November, 2008 on the topic… Read More
  • The Stream, the Lake and the River: NT Wright +

      Acts 2.1-21; John 7.37-39; a sermon at the Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost, 11 May 2008, by the… Read More
  • Jesus in the Perfect Storm by NT Wright +

    Zechariah 9.9-17; Luke 19.28-48; A sermon for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011, In the University Chapel of St Salvator, St… Read More
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