Daily Devotionals

Start Your Day In God's Word

No matter your stage, age, or season, there's a devotional here for you. Choose where you'd like to begin.

adults

Call for Help

October 17, 2026

Proverbs 15:22 puts it plainly: plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. Ed shares how he and Lisa waited fifteen years into their marriage before seeking biblical counseling, and how pride is usually what keeps us from asking for help. Good counsel loves us enough to disagree with us, and the challenge is to set pride aside and make the call before a crisis hits.

students

Ask the Five Hundred

October 17, 2026

1 Corinthians 15:3-8 teaches us that Jesus’ death and resurrection are the foundation of our faith, supported by the testimony of those who witnessed Him alive. Because our hope rests on the risen Christ, we can examine the evidence, grow in confidence about what we believe, and live boldly knowing that Jesus truly conquered death.

KIDS

A Path Through the Sea

October 17, 2026

Exodus 14:21-22, 31 teaches us that God has the power to make a way even when everything seems impossible, just as He made a dry path through the Red Sea for His people. When we feel stuck or afraid, we can remember His mighty power and trust that He is able to lead us through whatever lies ahead.

Daily Reading & Prayer

Grow In Your Faith

Read or listen to the Bible 5 minutes a day through the life of Jesus.

June 13, 2026

What You Do When Nobody Gains

Psalm 15:3-4 describes the person who guards their tongue, refuses to wrong a neighbor, and keeps a promise even when it hurts. Integrity shows up most clearly in the costly commitment you'd gain nothing by honoring. The invitation is to find the inconvenient promise you made and keep it anyway, because character is revealed when there's no payoff for doing right.

June 12, 2026

Who Gets to Stay

Psalm 15:1-2 asks who gets to dwell with God, and the answer is the one whose walk is blameless and who speaks truth from the heart. Dwelling isn't visiting or passing through; it's staying, and staying requires consistency between the private and public self. The challenge is to be the same person in every room and to pick one area where your inner life and outward life need to line up.

June 11, 2026

The Outsider Who Acted

James 2:25-26 holds up Rahab, an outsider with a messy life, as a model of righteousness because she acted on what little faith she had. She didn't wait until everything was cleaned up; she moved from exactly where she was. The reminder is that the body without the spirit is dead, and so is faith without works — so act now, from your present circumstances, rather than waiting for a better version of yourself.

June 10, 2026

The Test on the Mountain

James 2:20-24 points to Abraham, whose faith was made complete not by what he claimed but by what he was willing to do on the mountain. Belief from a safe distance isn't the same as faith that acts when God asks something costly. The devotional invites you to name the mountain — the thing God has been asking you to do that you've only been believing about — and finally move toward it.

June 9, 2026

Show Me

James 2:18-19 throws down a challenge: show me your faith without deeds, and I'll show you mine by what I do. Even the demons believe God exists and shudder, so correct belief alone proves nothing. The call is to make your faith visible — to live in a way that would leave evidence if someone followed you for a week, so that what you do testifies to what you actually believe.

June 8, 2026

Dead Faith

James 2:14-17 asks whether a faith that never moves can really save anyone. Like a doctor who memorized every textbook but never touched a patient, belief that stays in your head and only speaks kind words to the cold and hungry is, in James's verdict, dead — not weak, dead. The invitation is to let faith become restless: to see a real need in someone you know by name and actually do something about it today.

June 7, 2026

The Blessing That Rests

Psalm 133:3 likens unity to the dew of Hermon falling on Zion, the place where God commands his blessing and life forevermore. Blessing arrives through community, watering the dry places we'd given up on. The call is to bring our spiritual dryness into honest community and let God's blessing reach us through people willing to show up.

June 6, 2026

The Overflow

Psalm 133:2 pictures unity as precious oil poured on the head, running down the beard and onto the robes — an anointing meant to overflow, not to be hoarded. We guard our blessings as if they'll run out, but they were given to spill onto others. The invitation is to release something we've been protecting and let it overflow to someone else.

June 5, 2026

When They Live Together

Psalm 133:1 names how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. We were made for community, yet many of us live alone even in crowds, known for what we produce rather than who we are. The call is to name the people we truly belong with and reach out to one of them today.

June 4, 2026

Mercy Speaks Louder

James 2:12-13 warns that judgment without mercy awaits those who showed no mercy, but mercy triumphs over judgment. We can't ask God for the mercy that covers us while withholding it from the people around us. The invitation is to lead with mercy before judgment this week and watch how it reshapes every interaction.