In the same way, the good deeds of some people are obvious. And the good deeds done in secret will someday come to light. 1 Timothy 5:25 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: Jeremiah 35:1-36:32 1 Timothy 5:1-25 Psalm 89:14-37 It’s a big job to move a church. It requires a lot of boxes, a lot of packing tape, a lot of trucks, and a lot of people like Sue. Undoubtedly, the fun part of moving is seeing everything arrive in the new place. But Sue chose the harder part: staying behind at the old church…

Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: Jeremiah 16:16-18:23 1 Thessalonians 4:1-5:3 Psalm 81:1-16 Proverbs 25:6-8 Craig is a small, small town in northern Colorado; a place with an abundance of taxidermists, gun shops and liquor stores, but not too many churches. It’s a town where the stores have names like the “Loaf ‘n Jug,” the “Kum & Go,” and the now-defunct…

For you have died, and your life is hidden in Christ. Colossians 3:3 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: Jeremiah 8:8-9:26 Colossians 3:1-17 Psalm 78:32-55 Proverbs 24:27 It occurred to me once that Jesus left the world the way He entered it—-humbly, obscurely, without the reverence and adoration He should have received. They laid him in a cave and locked him in with a stone. And in the darkness of that cave, his body lay alone and unwatched. When you’re a stay-at-home mom, you can often feel like you’re in a cave too. We feel invisible.…

Let your gentleness be known to all. Philippians 4:5 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: Jeremiah 1:1-2:30 Philippians 4:1-23 Psalm 75:1-10 Proverbs 24:17-20 I wasn’t trying to hurt my daughter. But I wasn’t trying to not hurt her, either. And sometimes, that’s the same thing. Tera was six–old enough, I felt, to learn how to brush her own hair. Now, I’m not a monster (although you may disagree by the end of this post). I didn’t simply toss the brush at her and say, “You’re on your own.” No, we went through Brushing 101 together first.…

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus Philippians 3:12-14 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: Isaiah 66:1-24 Philippians 3:4-21 Psalm 74:1-23 Proverbs 24:15-16 When…