faith

Focus Prepare yourself to discern what is and what is not of God today. Still yourself so you can hear how God is calling you. Read 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 (NRSV) Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening […]

Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read Genesis 12:1-3 (NRSV) Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I […]

“We do not know… how can we know the way?” Courageous master of the awkward question, You spoke the words the others dared not say And cut through their evasion and abstraction. Oh doubting Thomas, father of my faith, You put your finger on the nub of things We cannot love some disembodied wraith, But […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read 1 Kings 17:17-24 (NRSV) After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Genesis 12:1-4a (NRSV) Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of […]

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything, but God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Luke 7:1-10 (NRSV) After Jesus had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Acts 1:1-5 (NRSV) In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after […]

Focus Prepare yourself to discern what is and what is not of God today. Still yourself so you can hear how God is calling you. Read Ephesians 3:14-21 (NRSV) For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according […]

Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read Hebrews 11:23-31 (NRSV) By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that the child was beautiful; and they were not […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Hebrews 11:13-22 (NRSV) All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on […]