Today’s Reflection God instructs us to write God’s word on our hearts, to meditate on it day and night. It is important to God that we...

Today’s Reflection In order to make prayer a priority in our lives, we have to create some space or margin. We must slow down a bit, say...

Today’s Reflection Help us to live by faith:to see the hope of your call,to embrace this new and living way,to love those things that...

Today’s Reflection Good works that flow from a Christlike spirit are the perfection of religion:they are the highest part of the...

Today’s Reflection One Sunday an eighth grader accidentally pointed out that God had not called me to “do” youth ministry. In the first...

Today’s Reflection As Barbara Brown Taylor warns, what threatens the church more than bad preaching or institutional self-preservation —...

Today’s Reflection A holy life is not an exhausted one, even for people in ministry with youth. The most effective youth ministers I...

Today’s Reflection When we wrote The Godbearing Life  in the late 1990s, both of us were young pastors who were growing our ministries...

Today’s Reflection Ministry, especially youth ministry, was never intended to be a service profession. Ministry is the grateful response...

Today’s Reflection You want only the very best for each of us—you breathe every good desire into us and bring it to fruition in your...

Today’s Reflection Part of learning to pray continually is to stay open in prayer. Sometimes after we say amen, we check off prayer on...

Today’s Reflection Praying before meals fills our hearts with gratitude for God’s provision in our lives as we enjoy the tangible gifts...

Today’s Reflection It is such a comfort to know you are with me, protecting me.When I am tempted, you offer me an escape, an outlet;your...

Today’s Reflection Teach us again to earn all we can and save all we can;then set our hearts free to give all we can.Whenever your...

“The Lord is my strength and my might; he has become my salvation.” — Exodus 15:2a Reflection: Life brings its share of challenges—some...

Today’s Reflection We see the sun, we revel in the light, we breathe the air, we feed off the land, but we hardly understand how all this...

Today's Reflection Praying makes us acknowledge our tendency to harm others. Receiving God’s forgiveness is a gift that keeps on giving....

Today's Reflection In praying persistently, we encounter God, whose first and only response is to give generously and extravagantly....

Scripture (NRSV): “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is...

Today's Reflection God is never unbothered by us but is moved quite powerfully by the choices we make, for ill or good. . . . God’s...