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Daily devotions written by Pastor Mike and many other Time of Grace writers. These Bible-based messages cover a wide variety of topics and help you seek what matters most in life: Jesus. Join the thousands of people who receive these devotions for encouragement by subscribing to have them delivered to your inbox each morning.

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Life’s Challenges

Pain is temporary

According to Jesus, I’m afraid of the wrong things. Like my back. A few years ago, I was a solid 6’ and 2.5” tall….

Living My Faith

Inner strength starts outside

My trainer explains that physical strength improves only with active exertion past a stress point. You have to reach a place of exhaustion and…

Life’s Challenges

You can’t, but God can

Have you ever had one of those days when you say to yourself, “I just can’t”? Maybe you’ve been trying to trust God as…

Living My Faith

The Holy Spirit has your back

Zach was about to graduate from high school. It was hard because his mom had died two years previously. And then just a couple…

Living My Faith

Christmas is for shepherds

Have you considered the high profile of the shepherds in the Christmas story? They were some of the first people God told about the…

Friends & Family

Blessings, not burdens

I was at the grocery store with my three kiddos when the cashier scanned the three bottles of wine I was buying for a…

Life’s Challenges

What life should God give you?

If you were God, what kind of life would you give you? You could give yourself a really good life—stable finances, healthy body, faithful…

Living My Faith

The weakest link

“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link” is a proverb inspired from an 18th-century book by Thomas Reid.  Ideally, God’s visible…

Living My Faith

How do you stack up?

“Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Prove me, O Lord,…

Living My Faith

God is like my wife

God is like my wife. (Honey, if you’re reading this, there has to be a billion brownie points for that line, right?)  My wife,…

Living My Faith

Ready for Christmas?

Are you ready for Christmas? I’m not thinking of the last-minute shopping or the taco dip you have to make before the office party….

Life’s Challenges

Your giants will fall

Maybe your giant is stress. A bad habit. A broken heart. A tendency to lose control when life doesn’t go the way you want. …