Christian Living

Ever feel tired of pretending to be someone you’re not? Even though I spent much of my life acting on stage, in real life, the pressure to perform became exhausting. I wonder if, like me, you’re eager to drop the daily “brave act.” Are you eager to inhabit the light of God’s role for you? My hope is that these words will become God’s clarion call to your heart, inviting you to shine for the glory of the Bright Morning Star. 

Shine: Stepping Into The Role You Were Made For

Navigating relationships and dating. 

A middle school devotional designed to help students apply God’s wisdom to the way they approach dating and relationships. In this devotional, you’ll find tools to help you navigate it all in a way that honors God, others, and yourself.

Red Flags, Respect, & Relationships

Whether or not you've completed our Daily Encouragement for the Smart Stepfamily devotional, here are 7 more daily pieces of encouragement to continue growing your blended family relationships. Read them as a stepfamily together or separately, but create a space for everyone to share their thoughts and feelings.

More Daily Encouragement for the Smart StepFamily

Understanding your identity is key to your relationship with God. In this 5 day plan, discover how belonging in God's family brings you rest, ensures victory and entitles you to special rights and privileges. You'll explore how being chosen by God helps you celebrate and accept others into His family too.

Belonging: To God

In this 11-day plan, spiritual formation pastor Michel Hendricks tells the story of how he discovered the importance of joy in the church through his relationship with neurotheologian Jim Wilder.  He journeys through Scripture to reveal the importance of beholding the face of God and what the design of the human brain teaches us about discipleship.

Joy, Church, and the Neglected Face of God - An 11-Day Plan

Sports officials are charged with enforcing the rules as written.  We may not like all the rules but our job is to enforce every rule.  Jesus says in John 14:15 - “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”  We don’t get to pick & choose what to follow. Let’s look at some verses that help us to stay on the path of “keeping the rule book of life.”


Rule Book of Life - the Bible

This four-week study examines the lives of four biblical characters and the challenges they faced as they had to persevere. (Joseph, Esther, Nehemiah, Paul) Their life stories will inspire you and challenge you to keep moving forward.  

Embrace the Race: Persevering Through Challenging Times

Experiencing God at Home and this hands-on day by day family devotional take a fresh path back to the rich roots of Henry Blackaby’s world-renowned Experiencing God writings to connect what happens in our homes to what happens in our   churches.

Experiencing God At Home For Daily Family 

Choose to fix your thoughts on whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue choose to think on these things. 