Day 9

Day 9: Simplicity Read it: Matthew 6:19-34 Live it:   The spiritual discipline of simplicity does not mean choosing to live a life with no creature comforts. There, I said it. You can lead a simple life and have just enough to pay for your monthly needs. You can lead...

Day 8

Day 8: Simplicity  Read it: 1 Timothy 6:6-10 Live it:  Simplicity is a word that’s meaning changes depending on who you talk to. I don’t know about you but I often think about “A Little House on the Prairie” style life when I think about simplicity. The truth is that...

Day 7

Read it: Acts 17:10-32, Luke 10:38-42 Live it: Our reading today takes us through Paul and Silas’s visit to the community of the Bereans and then to Paul’s visit to the community of the Athenians. After Paul and Silas went to Berea, the Bereans searched the...

Day 6

Day 6: Study Read it: 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Psalm 119:105 Live it:  Have you heard the Marines rifle creed? I’ll share a few lines with you,  “This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine.  My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as...

Day 5

Read it: Matthew 6:16-18 Live it: Jesus is teaching about fasting in our scripture reading today. I love that in this verse he uses the word “WHEN.” Verse 16, when you fast. It’s not “if” or when you feel like it, but “when” you fast. He is expecting his followers to...

Day 4

Day 4: Prayer  Read it: Matthew 6:6-13  Live it:  When I was 12 years old I wrote a short prayer on a piece of cardstock with some markers. It was a prayer for a Dad. I stuck it up on my wall and prayed that prayer hundreds of times over the next couple years, until...