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Risky Living {Ann Voskamp}

Risky LivingBut He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. — 2 Corinthians 12:9When my dad called this morning, he ...

Be the Gift: Cruciform and Blessed

CruciformWhen we walk in the back door from Sunday service, from the breaking of bread and thick intimacy of exchange, there’s this black pen lying on the table.I pick up ...

Comforting Grace

Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the Lord comforts His people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. — Isaiah 49:13I ...

The Love in Givenness

The Love in GivennessThe happiness of givenness is a balm that works its healing even days and weeks later, and givenness does not define or prove our value but lets ...

Amaryllis Grace: Joy is Worth the Wait

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Sit & Listen Saturdays at Devotionals Daily! Enjoy reading as well as listening to this message today from One Thousand Gifts Devotional by Ann Voskamp, read ...

From Broken to Free... A Story (and an Introduction)

Editor’s Note: Hey there, OBS Friends! We just came through The Broken Way study together and our team loved it so much that we don’t want it to be over! ...

The Miracle in Your Pocket That Breaks Stress

You are to pay special attention to those who by accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. ~ Saint AugustineA day is a ...

Being the Gift the World Needs

Cruciform self-giving is the distinctive dimension of holiness. — Michael GormanI’d been dangerously anemic for weeks, feeling like I was a wet sheet of paper and the story was falling ...

A Return to Glory and Grace: God's Wild, Secretive Plan

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.Satan, he wanted more. More power, more glory. Ultimately, in his essence, Satan is an ingrate. And he sinks his ...

Thinking Grace

Through Jesus, therefore,let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that openly profess His name. — Hebrews 13:15When the rope pulls tight, Levi ...

Humble Grace: Humility Comes Before Happiness

God blesses those who are humble, for they will inherit the whole earth. — Matthew 5:5 NLTI’m standing in a mudroom, sorting children’s dribbled shirts, grass-stained jeans. I live in ...

Ugly Grace

For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things. – Colossians 1:19-20The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with ...

Hard Grace

Everything is eucharisteo.Because eucharisteo is how Jesus, at the Last Supper, showed us to transfigure all things — take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform ...

A Lifestyle of Thanksgiving

When children sleep under the scraps stitched into quilts and the clock ticks too loudly through the dark hours and the spiral galaxies spin in space, I lie under the ...

Giving Thanks In Everything

I sit at the prayer bench before my bedroom window. Outside, our boys roll millions of flakes into a snow fort. I read the passage, one I remember from the ...

Grief and God... and Manna Grace

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on ...

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Free Online Bible Study by Jennie Allen

Free Online Bible Study by Jennie Allen

What does the Bible tell us about our emotions? Join the free Untangle Your Emotions Online Bible Study and get exclusive content from author Jennie Allen, 6 study videos, and other Bible study resources - all free when you sign up! Study starts 6/10.