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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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Living My Faith

Stick with grace

I took some unofficial measurements of the offering boxes in our church lobby and the cross that hangs in our sanctuary. I discovered that…

Living My Faith

Start with grace

If you grew up in church, what do you remember hearing about financial giving? Did it start with grace? Was Jesus the first part…

Life’s Challenges

Little by little

We all wish God would snap his fingers and make our lives easier. We wish nicotine cravings would simply disappear, depression would magically lift,…

Friends & Family

Playing favorites

In the book the Sibling Effect, Jeffrey Kluger says that most parents have a child that they favor and that they are liars if…

Bible 101

What God values

Have you heard of Jeroboam II? He was probably the greatest king of ancient Israel. He ruled for 41 years; conquered Israel’s enemies; and…

Depression & Anxiety

A day at a time

When I was growing up, my mother frequently reminded me to take it a day at a time. I wasn’t good at doing so…

Bible 101

Faultless

For about 15 years of my life, I was a rabid collector of sports cards. Baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards, and hockey cards…

Social Issues

Your homeland is a gift from God

God has a long history of blessing people by giving them homes. The Israelites in Canaan … Joseph and Mary in Egypt … Jacob’s…

Bible 101

Bringing Jonah back

God commissioned the prophet Jonah to deliver an important message. The message was designed to prevent judgment from falling on the city of Nineveh….

Bible 101

Death is not the end

I live about a block away from one of the largest and most respected medical systems in Wisconsin. It’s where I held my dad’s…

Living My Faith

No coincidence. Just providence.

Why are you here? Out of all the things you could be doing or words you could be reading, why are you here right…

Living My Faith

The potential is in the seed

At any given moment, there are two versions of you: the version that is and the version that could be. There was a commercial…