Christmas Devotional Experience
We’d like to share with you our favorite Christmas devotional experience we use for Advent. Kristi and I have done this in our personal devotions…
Soul Shepherding
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Tag: Devotion
What is Advent?
The Advent season is a time of spiritual preparation for celebrating the coming of Jesus Christ. For 24 days we anticipate the joy of Christmas…
How to Celebrate Advent
The meaning of Advent has changed over the years. The word Advent comes from the Latin word adventus and means “coming.” In ancient times Christians…
The Joy of the Cross
Easter is approaching! To help you open your heart to Christ and the abundant life that comes through his cross and resurrection I have prepared…
Free of Quiet Time Guilt (Dallas Willard)
“Good Christians do their daily devotions.” That teaching puts pressure and guilt on people! It also generates a bifurcated life in which I meet with…
70 Happy Words
Paul uses 70 expressions of joy in his short letter to the Philippians! Seventy! Reading them infects us with his “good virus” of devotion to…
Digging Deeper in God’s Word
Probably you read the Bible often, but you may not know how to draw life from it. Most people who read the Bible, just read…
Warming Cold Hearts With God’s Love (As John Wesley Did)
Our great need right now is to have our hearts warmed by God’s love. This is what makes us happy and fruitful! Most everyday pastors…
The Love Prayer of Jesus — This Will Ignite Your Heart!
Our greatest need is to be connected in loving relationships, but often we experience disconnects with people we were counting on. Rejection. Anger. Judgment. Being…
A. W. Tozer’s Introduction to “The Christian Book of Mystical Verse”
I’m often asked by pastors and others what I think about “mysticism.” Usually someone in their church has encountered this and has expressed concern that it…