Do you ever feel like you “missed” what you just read in the Bible - even after spending time in the Word at length? It’s easy to do, especially if you’re like me and are following a Bible in a Year plan that requires multiple chapters to be read per day. While it is important to read the Bible in its entirety, we also must remember to slow down and focus on the text. It’s for this reason that over the past month the Lord has called me to slow down and pause to let the truth of God’s Word soak in. How? By meditating on His Word. Yup, I went there. Can Christians Meditate? The word “meditate” sometimes has...
What are your plans for this weekend? How will you be spending July 4th weekend? After a long year with very little travel, we're excited to get away to the beach this weekend with family and friends. We're especially excited to celebrate the incredible blessing of FREEDOM! I don't know about you ... but when we're traveling with family or taking even a short break away from our normal routine, it can be SO easy to let our devotional time take the back burner. So before we hop off for our Sabbath and much-needed family time, I wanted to share 4 simple tips to encourage you to stay connected with God - not just this weekend, but every day. 1 - Prioritize...
The Daily Kairos Journal was born out of a deep acknowledgment that without carving out and cultivating a deep and intimate set-aside time with God, everything else in life not only would not last but would undoubtedly fall apart. We realized that we longed for intimacy and closeness with God, but rarely had the time to seek His face. Like many of you, we saw how easy it is to get caught up in the current of life. A thousand things demand our attention from sun-up to sun-down and every moment in between. Finally, we decided enough was enough. And so, we set out to create a daily habit of meeting with God. And in that process, we created the...
The start of a new year means new opportunities for many things: growth, change, transformation, new hobbies, goals, and dreams. We often sense this urgency to dive into all the new year has to offer and get a head start on getting after what we want to accomplish. As good as it is to have dreams and to cast vision, the truth is, none of our dream planning and vision casting ultimately means much of anything without one thing being at the center of it all: Jesus. The world will be quick to convince you that to start your new year right, you ought to get all the newest gadgets and dive back into work with new and different strategies...
Sabbath, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, is “a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jewish people from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday.” So, why is it so important that we keep, honor, and practice Sabbath? In order to properly answer and address this question, we must go back to the Old Testament. 1. God set the precedent for Sabbath rest One of the very first things we read when we open up the Hebrew Bible is God resting from his work after Creation. “On the seventh day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he...
