Desiring God Daily
What is the most worthwhile thing humankind can experience on earth? Nothing less than God Himself! As glorious as God is, so is the glory that begins to work in the hearts and lives of those who give themselves to live for God. It is a great step forward in the life of a Christian when he or she truly sees this and regards their daily fellowship with God as the most important aspect of their existence. Take time and ask yourself whether this is indeed not the most important thing around which your life should revolveto know God and to love Him with your whole heart. This is what God desires above all else; and it is that which, in answer to your prayer, He will enable you to do. So begin this and every day of the year [ … ]
Video: Nick Vujicic on Bullying
Did you miss our Livestream webcast with Nick Vujicic last week? If so, watch it on-demand now! In April, Nick is releasing a new book called Stand Strong with more strategies on how you can build a strong bully defense system from the inside out.
Sneak Peek: Heart Wide Open by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
You believe in God. Youre trying to serve Him.
But do you know how to truly love Himand let Him love you?
Click here to download chapter one of Heart Wide Open.
As a Bible-believing churchgoer, author Shellie Tomlinson harbored a secret in her good-girl heart. She longed for something more than routine faith; she wanted to love God with a genuine, all-consuming passion. So she got honest with Him: I admit it. I dont love you like I should, but I want to love you. Help me!
Click here to download chapter one of Heart Wide Open.
Sneak Peek: Spoken For by Robin Jones Gunn and Alyssa Joy Bethke
Say Yes to the Love Story of Your Life
Click here to download chapter one of Spoken For.
A great romance was set in motion before you were born. A relentless Lover is pursuing you, and He has made His intentions clear. He wants you to be His forever. How will you respond to the One who longs for you to be His with your whole heart?
Click here to download chapter one of Spoken For.
Understanding God
God wouldn’t be much of a God if you could fully understand his nature. Humanity still hasn’t figured out most of creation. The Creator is far greater than that.
Excerpted from Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory
Daily Reflection: What do you have a hard time understanding about the nature and character of God?
God’s Glory
O how we need to see that Christ, not comfort, is our all-satisfying and everlasting treasure. So I conclude that magnifying the supremacy of God in all things and being willing to suffer patiently to help people see and savor this supremacy is the essence of love. It’s the essence of God’s love. And it’s the essence of our love for people. Because the supremacy of God’s glory is the source and sum of all full and lasting joy.
Excerpted from A Godward Heart by John Piper
Daily Reflection: When was the last time you savored the supremacy of God?
God’s Story
While most of my [Randy Alcorn] books are nonfiction, I’ve written seven full-length novels. Now, if I were to write a novel about lives without conflict, where characters get everything they want, where life marches on comfortably and no one ever loses anything, nobody would read it. Who likes a boring story? In fact, my central characters always face great conflict, turmoil, uncertainty, and suffering. Some die. That it makes for a far better story is my main reason for doing this. (We enjoy in fiction much that we do not enjoy in life.) So who am I to say that God shouldn’t write such things into his story, including my part?
In our lives God uses conflict not just to make the story better but to make us better. In life, not just literature, we repeatedly see that protection [ … ]
A Divine Calling
If we ever wonder if we have what it takes to live in victory, we have only to look at the life of our Savior. Jesus walked by the Spirit, the same Holy Spirit who lives in us We have the same Spirit, the same authority, and the same power.
Our problem is that we don’t know it, or we know it and don’t appropriate it, or we don’t believe it’s for today. Our faith is small. It moves sandcastles, not mountains.
Just before Jesus ascended, He said:
All authority has been given to Me in heaven and
on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe
all that I commanded you; and lo, I am [ … ]