Stubborn Enough to Hope

Stubborn Enough to Hope

by | Aug 28, 2025 | Daily Reading & Reflection

Reading If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power with us. As it is, there’s not much chance of...
Stubborn Enough to Hope

Faith Without Fear

by | Aug 21, 2025 | Daily Reading & Reflection

Reading We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first. If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see,...
Stubborn Enough to Hope

When Love Stands Out

by | Aug 14, 2025 | Daily Reading & Reflection

Reading Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other. John 13:34-35 (The Message) Reflection The story...
Stubborn Enough to Hope

The Voice That Matters

by | Aug 1, 2025 | Daily Reading & Reflection

Reading Am I now seeking human approval, or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ. Galatians 1:10 Reflection The idea of approval and belonging is a funny thing. Each of us—regardless...
Stubborn Enough to Hope

The Work No One Sees

by | Jul 30, 2025 | Daily Reading & Reflection

Reading But when God, who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with any human being, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were...