Devotionals about Spiritual Growth
Spiritual growth isn't linear and it isn't glamorous — it's forged in the boring faithful disciplines most people skip. These devotionals on spiritual growth are practical encouragement for the long, slow work of becoming more like Jesus.
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118 devotionals in Spiritual Growth
December 24, 2025
Growing Your Relationship with Christ
Since we are on the Eve of celebration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, here’s a question for you. Are you living in growth mode with your relationship with Christ? What I mean is, are you actively reading, meditating and growing your relationship with God?Let’s be honest, none of us are goin...
life-balanceNovember 17, 2025
Finding True Balance Through God's Grace
Ever thought about what it means to have a good balance in your life? Have you ever sought to find it? I’m talking about when we starve ourselves from God’s word and the things He designed for us to utilize our lives for. We too often replace those things with short term, self-fulfilling solution...
integritySeptember 1, 2025
Walking in Integrity: Living God's Higher Standard
“Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.”Proverbs 10:9 In today's world of sports, it seems that anything done for an advantage is fair game—as long as you don't get caught.As Christians, however, we are held to a higher standard. Our goal s...
pleasing-godAugust 12, 2025
Seeking God's Approval Over Human Validation
I don’t know whether it’s getting older or my growing desire to be closer to God, but I can say I seek more now to please Him than I do others. I think so anyhow, but it hasn’t always been that way. Who are you trying to please or impress? You see, we live in such a different world now where we a...
witnessJune 25, 2025
Let Your Light Shine: Living Credible Faith
Should we care what people think of us? Should we care what we post on social media? I mean, we hear all the time, “God’s judgement is the only one that matters”, right? While I agree with the later, I disagree. We should care what others see from us, it’s our light. As disciples of Christ, we ne...
gods-graceMay 21, 2025
God's Grace is Greater Than Our Sin
We’ve been doing this since sometime in 2018. I know I’ve written le about 1615 devotionals. I don’t think that’s all of them because I’m sure I’ve accidentally deleted some and reused some…but I digress. In the beginning, I use to sign off our devotionals with God is greater than me. (God > Me)...
spiritual-growthMarch 25, 2025
More Than a Spiritual Rinse - Seeking God with Your Heart
Well, spring has sprung as my allergies have alerted me of this fact. Anyhow, I’m randomly thinking I needed to wash my plane due to the long winter and pollen, I reminded myself of a saying I heard somewhere along the way that said, “it’s not clean until a rags hit it”. Got me thinking that this...
perseveranceMarch 12, 2025
Pressing On Through Failure: Choose Redemption Over Retreat
This life isn’t easy, in fact it’s hard. We all have struggled and we all have failed but we must move on...“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my...
identityMarch 10, 2025
Who Are You Reflecting - God or the World?
So I had a great conversation down in Florida over the weekend with a buddy on this devotional chain about the different stages we’ve been through in life as it pertained to “stuff” we acquired. And when I mean stuff, I’m talking about the fancy cars and expansive homes, etc. We basically conclud...
patienceMarch 7, 2025
Finding God's Voice in Your Circumstances
Let keep talking about listening to God and looking for his answers. “for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”James 1:3-4 Look, I think it’s pretty evident that God sp...
patienceFebruary 12, 2025
Learning Patience: A Journey of Self-Discovery
I have been forced to learn a lot about myself the last three years and one of the things I’ve learned is I need to get better with patience. Not only with life but mostly with people. I always thought I was a relatively patient person until I started trying to really learn what it meant to be pa...
sufferingJanuary 9, 2025
God's Way Out Isn't What We Expect
You ever notice that when we finally get out of whatever it is we are suffering from it never seems to be the way we thought we would get out of it? Like during our suffering we could never understand or see the way out that God has for us. It’s because it’s His plan for us not our plan for us. H...
trialsDecember 6, 2024
Finding Joy Through Life's Difficult Seasons
Aight, look here. We all know people who are going through a rough season in their life…it’s seems like this time of year especially. Heck, you may be too.While I certainly feel empathy, I can’t help but reflect on the fact the If you live long enough in this world, you will inevitably go through...
peaceDecember 5, 2024
Being a Non-Anxious Presence Like Jesus
So I’ve been reading and writing about “finding peace” off and on since I started this devotional group in 2018. To me, it is one of the most essential parts of my relationship with Christ. My vision of Jesus, in part, is peace. But I want to revisit a phrase that young students in seminary schoo...
humilitySeptember 30, 2024
Overlooking Offenses with Grace
I was reading last night and ran across a quote/idea I’m sure I’ve written about but it’s worth revisiting. I’m sure many of you have heard of C.S. Lewis. He was a prominent 20th century theologian who said, “Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.” I bring it up...
bible-studySeptember 26, 2024
Abiding in His Word
I’m not sure if I’ve told ya’ll this before, but on occasions, I get some feedback from y’all and I have to say, it makes my day. Yesterday, was one of those days. I am grateful for my little audience. To me you’re the world. As I was thinking yesterday about how much I enjoy sharing the word in...
gratitudeSeptember 9, 2024
The Secret to Contentment in Every Circumstance
“I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”Philippians 4:12-13So, we’ve all seen the scripture above and in most every case i...
sufferingAugust 12, 2024
Standing Firm: How Trials Build Our Faith Credibility
I want to stay with Paul in Philippians because I think it’s important to understand how he was using his imprisonments as an advantage to further the message of Christ. “so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righte...
golden-ruleAugust 1, 2024
Seeing Others as God's Masterpieces
Welcome to August…So, I’ve been reading and writing about how we need to try and live like Jesus would etc. As kids we were taught the Golden Rule (Jesus’ rule) threat others the way we want to be treated. Great idea, not so easy to do. We all know that loving everyone, even the ones we don’t lik...
trialsJuly 18, 2024
Finding Joy During Trials: God Is Shaping You
So last weekend I was messaging a good friend of mine who was recently badly injured in a mountain bike accident. After some surgery and screws in his knee, he’s on the mend now. He’s pretty dissapointed, understandably, because it’s going to sideline him from racing this summer in the Nationals...
christian-livingJuly 2, 2024
WWJD: Faithful Witness vs Judging Others
I know I’ve written about this before, but y’all remember the WWJD bracelets we use to wear?I’ve been reading about how we should watch what we say and how we act and this came to mind. What ever happened to it? Did we figure out what Jesus would do? Did we stop caring? Well, I think it would be...
faith-leapMay 14, 2024
Think for a Change: Don't Let Today Sabotage Tomorrow
So, I spend some time yesterday with two young men who are making a big leap of faith in their life and changing the course of their careers for the hope of better things in the future and it got me thinking…Could things be the way they are because you are the way you are? What’s one thing can yo...
intentional-livingMay 9, 2024
Living in the Now, Not the Then
Let’s shift gears a little and talk about where we are going? This time next year, where do you want to be? Who do you want to be? What type of follower of Christ, spouse or parent do you want to be? Whatever the answers are to those questions, know this: God’s calling you to live in the NOW & st...
patienceMarch 21, 2024
Learning Patience: Waiting on God's Perfect Timing
I have been forced to learn a lot about myself the last few years and one of the things I’ve learned is I need to get better with patience. Not only with life but mostly with people. I always thought I was a relatively patient person until I started trying to really learn what it meant to be pati...
