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October 18, 2019

Conversations With Momma (Part One)

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – October 18, 2019 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Proverbs 1:8 I am thinking about my mom this morning and how to honor her on the one year anniversary of her death. Below, I wrote an honest conversation between [...]

April 10, 2019

Faithful Friends Leave A Residue Of Influence Even After They’re Gone

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – April 10, 2019 You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to [...]

October 30, 2018

My Idea of a “White, Picket-Fence Life”

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – October 30, 2018 And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this? Esther 4:14b Before my husband and I tied the knot, I had lots of rules about what I believed would make me happy in marriage. One [...]

October 24, 2018

Advice From Momma (Part One)

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – October 24, 2018 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Proverbs 1:8 Thinking about mom this morning and how to honor her. Below, I wrote an honest conversation between a son and his mom. Many of these ideas I learned [...]

October 11, 2018

God Tells Long Stories

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – October 11, 2018 Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. Mark 9:39 (NRSV) Mark 9 is a remarkable text in which we find the disciples unable to do [...]

June 14, 2018

Are You a Self-Starter?

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – June 14, 2018 By Tripp Prince Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6:6-8 (NIV) The image of the industrious [...]

March 24, 2018

Leadership in Adversity

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – March 24, 2018 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. John 13:5 Adversity invites leaders to lead. It is your time to trust the Lord and lead by faith, [...]

March 6, 2018

A Funny Story About How God Provides

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – March 6, 2018 By Shana Schutte And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19 Before I married my husband, we were colleagues at a Colorado Springs nonprofit, where we knew of each other, but didn’t know each other. Later [...]

March 3, 2018

Brutal Facts

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – March 3, 2018 Then Joab went into the house of the king and said, “Today you have humiliated all your men, who have just saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and the lives of your wives and concubines. 2 Samuel 19:5 Brutal [...]

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