Deepen Your Faith: Daily Devotionals

"How have you been?" "Good. God's been good." We say it all the time. And it is true. But have you noticed how little it tells the other person? It is a bit like someone telling you they took a great vacation and leaving it there. No beach. No mountain. No story about...

Think about the last time someone tried to convince you of something with a list. Five reasons. Three steps. A chart full of bullet points. You might remember a point or two. Probably not all of them. Now think about the last time someone told you a story. Maybe a...

Before phones gave us turn-by-turn directions, somebody would say, "Just follow me." You would pull out of the parking lot behind them and try to keep up. If you have ever done that, you know the trick. You cannot ride their bumper. You cannot pull up beside them...

Think back to a wedding day. The bride spends hours getting ready. There is the dress, the hair, the flowers, and a team of bridesmaids making sure every detail is right. The groom gets ready too. Guys, be honest. You never smelled better than you did on your wedding...

"Science will win because it works." Stephen Hawking said that in a 2010 interview with Diane Sawyer. Whether we would say it out loud or not, a lot of us believe some version of it. We trust progress. We trust that the right research, the right technology, or the...

Some invitations are easy to ignore. A flyer on the windshield. An email you delete before you finish reading the subject line. Other invitations stop you in your tracks. A grandparent pats the seat beside them and says, "Come sit with me. I want to tell you...

Think about the plans you had twenty years ago. Where you would live. What you would be doing. How your family would look. How many of them worked out the way you imagined? I had things mapped out too. Very little of it went the way I drew it up. You can probably say...