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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

Sometimes God lets you fall

You know, all Christians, me included, really like the passages in Scripture that talk about God’s rescuing activity. We adore the stories of Daniel…

Life’s Challenges

Kintsugi

In most cultures when you break something, you either hide it or you throw it away. But centuries ago, the Japanese culture decided to…

Life’s Challenges

Explore your wilderness

“Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?” (Psalm 78:19). Can God provide what we desperately need when we feel lost and dead…

Life’s Challenges

Overcoming personal baggage

Some children show up for school each day with some pretty heavy life baggage: depression, sexual abuse, parental conflict, poverty, inadequate sleep and nutrition,…

Life’s Challenges

Restored to normal

When you look at Jesus’ miracles recorded in the New Testament, they all have one thing in common. They all restored what sin had…

Life’s Challenges

Held together in Jesus

“You’ve got it so together!” Has anyone ever said that to you? If you’re like me, when you hear those words, your first thought…

Life’s Challenges

The gift of less to lose

One of the best gifts God ever gave me was getting to a point where I had less to lose. I am not trying…

Life’s Challenges

Strong tower

I will never forget standing behind the walls of Masada. Just west of the Dead Sea, Masada is an ancient fortress built on a…

Life’s Challenges

God’s gift of love

Valentine’s Day is about giving gifts to people you love. Picking a gift can be difficult because a gift communicates what you think of…

Life’s Challenges

Wrestling with God

“So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until dawn. When the man saw that he could not win against Jacob,…

Life’s Challenges

The reality you will never know

Have you ever heard someone who is going through a tough time say, “What do people do who don’t have Jesus in their lives?”…

Life’s Challenges

Do something!

Psychologists, substance abuse counselors, and social workers have a last-ditch strategy when helping someone out of destructive behaviors seems to have hit a brick…