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End of Summer Reflection Questions for Your Journal
Summer ends without a ceremony. One week the evenings are long and the next the school run is back, and the whole stretch closes without anyone stopping to look at...
End of Summer Reflection Questions for Your Journal
Summer ends without a ceremony. One week the evenings are long and the next the school run is back, and the whole stretch closes without anyone stopping to look at...
A Monthly Faith Goals Checklist You Can Print
A month is the right length for a faith goal. Long enough to build something, short enough that you can see the end from the beginning. Proverbs 3:5 says to...
A Monthly Faith Goals Checklist You Can Print
A month is the right length for a faith goal. Long enough to build something, short enough that you can see the end from the beginning. Proverbs 3:5 says to...
5 Ways to Make Fall a Season of Spiritual Growth
Autumn is the second beginning of the year. School starts, the light changes, and there is a natural willingness to take something up that summer never had. Lamentations 3:22 says...
5 Ways to Make Fall a Season of Spiritual Growth
Autumn is the second beginning of the year. School starts, the light changes, and there is a natural willingness to take something up that summer never had. Lamentations 3:22 says...
5 Ways to Make Worship Part of Your Morning
Worship in the morning does not require a good voice, a quiet house, or forty minutes. It requires a decision made the night before about what the first part of...
5 Ways to Make Worship Part of Your Morning
Worship in the morning does not require a good voice, a quiet house, or forty minutes. It requires a decision made the night before about what the first part of...
5 Ways to Look for Beauty as a Spiritual Practice
Beauty is not decoration on the edge of the Christian life. It is one of the ways God has always been recognized, and it can be practiced rather than waited...
5 Ways to Look for Beauty as a Spiritual Practice
Beauty is not decoration on the edge of the Christian life. It is one of the ways God has always been recognized, and it can be practiced rather than waited...
5 Simple Ways to Praise God on a Regular Tuesday
Praise is easy to picture on a Sunday with a room full of people. It is harder to picture at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday, halfway through a...
5 Simple Ways to Praise God on a Regular Tuesday
Praise is easy to picture on a Sunday with a room full of people. It is harder to picture at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday, halfway through a...
5 Ways to Notice God's Goodness in an Ordinary Week
Most weeks are ordinary. Nothing dramatic arrives, nothing dramatic leaves, and by Friday you could not say what happened on Tuesday. Goodness is in those weeks too. It is just...
5 Ways to Notice God's Goodness in an Ordinary Week
Most weeks are ordinary. Nothing dramatic arrives, nothing dramatic leaves, and by Friday you could not say what happened on Tuesday. Goodness is in those weeks too. It is just...
How to Make a Praise Playlist for Your Quiet Time
A playlist can carry a quiet time or wreck it. The difference is almost always the building rather than the songs. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says to give thanks in everything,...
How to Make a Praise Playlist for Your Quiet Time
A playlist can carry a quiet time or wreck it. The difference is almost always the building rather than the songs. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says to give thanks in everything,...
Fall Quiet Time Ideas for Cozy Devotional Mornings
Autumn does something for a morning practice that no other season does. The house is quiet longer, the light comes late, and sitting down with a blanket stops feeling like...
Fall Quiet Time Ideas for Cozy Devotional Mornings
Autumn does something for a morning practice that no other season does. The house is quiet longer, the light comes late, and sitting down with a blanket stops feeling like...
What to Do When Quiet Time Feels Like a Chore
There is a stretch in every long practice where it stops feeling like anything. You open the Bible, you read the words, and nothing happens. This is not usually a...
What to Do When Quiet Time Feels Like a Chore
There is a stretch in every long practice where it stops feeling like anything. You open the Bible, you read the words, and nothing happens. This is not usually a...
Morning Pages and Prayer | A Simple Daily Rhythm
Some mornings you sit down to pray and find you cannot get past the noise. The list, the conversation you are dreading, the thing someone said on Tuesday. Morning pages...
Morning Pages and Prayer | A Simple Daily Rhythm
Some mornings you sit down to pray and find you cannot get past the noise. The list, the conversation you are dreading, the thing someone said on Tuesday. Morning pages...
How to Wake Up Earlier for Time With God
Waking earlier is not a morning problem. It is a bedtime problem wearing a morning costume. Psalm 91:1 promises that he who dwells in the secret place of the Most...
How to Wake Up Earlier for Time With God
Waking earlier is not a morning problem. It is a bedtime problem wearing a morning costume. Psalm 91:1 promises that he who dwells in the secret place of the Most...
How Long Should Quiet Time Be | An Honest Answer
Most answers to this question are not answers. They say quality over quantity, which is true and completely unhelpful when you are standing in the kitchen deciding whether to sit...
How Long Should Quiet Time Be | An Honest Answer
Most answers to this question are not answers. They say quality over quantity, which is true and completely unhelpful when you are standing in the kitchen deciding whether to sit...
How to Start Your Day With God Before Your Phone
The problem is not that you love your phone more than God. The problem is that at six in the morning your phone is closer to your hand than your...
How to Start Your Day With God Before Your Phone
The problem is not that you love your phone more than God. The problem is that at six in the morning your phone is closer to your hand than your...
How to Pray Thanksgiving Prayers When Life Is Good
Most of us pray best in trouble. Need gives prayer an obvious shape, and the words arrive without being searched for. Then a good season comes and the praying thins...
How to Pray Thanksgiving Prayers When Life Is Good
Most of us pray best in trouble. Need gives prayer an obvious shape, and the words arrive without being searched for. Then a good season comes and the praying thins...
5 Ways to End Your Day With Gratitude to God
Evening gratitude has one enemy, and it is not unbelief. It is tiredness. By nine o'clock most of us have nothing left for a practice that requires effort. Philippians 4:4...
5 Ways to End Your Day With Gratitude to God
Evening gratitude has one enemy, and it is not unbelief. It is tiredness. By nine o'clock most of us have nothing left for a practice that requires effort. Philippians 4:4...
Fall Gratitude Journal Prompts for November
November makes gratitude compulsory, which is the fastest way to make it feel hollow. By the fourth Thursday most of us can produce the expected answer without meaning much by...
Fall Gratitude Journal Prompts for November
November makes gratitude compulsory, which is the fastest way to make it feel hollow. By the fourth Thursday most of us can produce the expected answer without meaning much by...
30 Gratitude Journal Prompts for Christian Women
The trouble with gratitude journaling is that most of us run out by day four. Family, health, home, coffee. All true, all quickly exhausted. Psalm 139:23 is the prayer underneath...
30 Gratitude Journal Prompts for Christian Women
The trouble with gratitude journaling is that most of us run out by day four. Family, health, home, coffee. All true, all quickly exhausted. Psalm 139:23 is the prayer underneath...
September Journal Prompts for a New Rhythm
September has the feel of a new year without the noise of one. The light changes, the calendar fills, and something in most of us wants to begin again. Psalm...
September Journal Prompts for a New Rhythm
September has the feel of a new year without the noise of one. The light changes, the calendar fills, and something in most of us wants to begin again. Psalm...
20 Journal Prompts for Spiritual Growth This Month
Growth is difficult to see from the inside. You are the same person every morning, so the changes only show up when you look back at something you wrote. 1...
20 Journal Prompts for Spiritual Growth This Month
Growth is difficult to see from the inside. You are the same person every morning, so the changes only show up when you look back at something you wrote. 1...
How to Start a Gratitude Journal That Points You to God
Gratitude journals are everywhere, and for good reason: the practice works. People who write down good things begin to notice good things, and noticing changes a day's whole weather. But...
How to Start a Gratitude Journal That Points You to God
Gratitude journals are everywhere, and for good reason: the practice works. People who write down good things begin to notice good things, and noticing changes a day's whole weather. But...
A September Reset for a Fresh Start With God
September arrives with a particular kind of energy. The light changes, the calendar fills, and something in us wants to begin again. It is a new year without the noise...
A September Reset for a Fresh Start With God
September arrives with a particular kind of energy. The light changes, the calendar fills, and something in us wants to begin again. It is a new year without the noise...
How to Build a Gratitude Practice That Isn't Forced
Gratitude practices go wrong in a predictable way. They begin sincerely, become a list, and end up a small daily performance of contentment you do not entirely feel. By week...
How to Build a Gratitude Practice That Isn't Forced
Gratitude practices go wrong in a predictable way. They begin sincerely, become a list, and end up a small daily performance of contentment you do not entirely feel. By week...
A Quiet Time Routine That Survives Your Actual Life
Most quiet time advice assumes a morning you do not have. It pictures an hour before sunrise, an empty house, a full pot of coffee and nobody needing anything. If...
A Quiet Time Routine That Survives Your Actual Life
Most quiet time advice assumes a morning you do not have. It pictures an hour before sunrise, an empty house, a full pot of coffee and nobody needing anything. If...
How to Restart a Quiet-Time Habit
It is easy to imagine that everyone else has a steady quiet-time routine while yours keeps slipping away. A busy season begins, mornings change, illness interrupts, or you miss a...
How to Restart a Quiet-Time Habit
It is easy to imagine that everyone else has a steady quiet-time routine while yours keeps slipping away. A busy season begins, mornings change, illness interrupts, or you miss a...
Practice God's Presence While Doing Chores
Chores rarely feel spiritual. Laundry gathers, counters need wiping, groceries need putting away, and the same rooms seem to need attention again almost as soon as you finish. Yet these...
Practice God's Presence While Doing Chores
Chores rarely feel spiritual. Laundry gathers, counters need wiping, groceries need putting away, and the same rooms seem to need attention again almost as soon as you finish. Yet these...
A Christian Evening Examen
By evening, the day can feel like a blur of conversations, responsibilities, small joys, and unfinished thoughts. A Christian evening examen is a simple way to slow down and look...
A Christian Evening Examen
By evening, the day can feel like a blur of conversations, responsibilities, small joys, and unfinished thoughts. A Christian evening examen is a simple way to slow down and look...
Faith Goals for the Month | Simple Christian Habits to Grow Closer to Jesus
There is something hopeful about the first page of a new month. The calendar is still clean, nothing has gone sideways yet, and it feels possible that this time the...
Faith Goals for the Month | Simple Christian Habits to Grow Closer to Jesus
There is something hopeful about the first page of a new month. The calendar is still clean, nothing has gone sideways yet, and it feels possible that this time the...
The One-Psalm-a-Day Rhythm
Some days, reading the Bible feels simple. Other days, even deciding where to begin can become one more choice in a morning already full of them. A one-psalm-a-day rhythm offers...
The One-Psalm-a-Day Rhythm
Some days, reading the Bible feels simple. Other days, even deciding where to begin can become one more choice in a morning already full of them. A one-psalm-a-day rhythm offers...
The Kettle-Boils Prayer Habit
Many of us want to pray more consistently, but we imagine that prayer requires a long stretch of uninterrupted quiet. When life is full, that kind of time can feel...
The Kettle-Boils Prayer Habit
Many of us want to pray more consistently, but we imagine that prayer requires a long stretch of uninterrupted quiet. When life is full, that kind of time can feel...
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