Hello Faithful Daily Devotional Readers, We wanted to take a moment to explain why you haven’t received your usual daily devotionals this week. Pastor Alex Walton was unwell this past Sunday and unable to preach [...]

Fasting is a common spiritual discipline throughout the Old Testament, and it’s expected of us in the New Testament. Strangely, it’s one of the least mentioned disciplines in American churches today. One reason, perhaps, [...]

See, I'm FASTING ! “When you fast, don’t make yourselves look sad like the hypocrites. They put a look of suffering on their faces so that people will see they are fasting. [...]

When our devotional team considered fasting from food we tossed around a number of non-food ideas. One was refraining from toxic attitudes. Another was taking a break from social and other media. These exercises [...]

Living in a culture that prizes productivity, we often find ourselves calculating our worth by the amount of things we are able to accomplish in a day. This outlook often encourages and sustains a [...]

Every living creature instinctively seeks safety and a place to rest.  Take, for example, lowly earthworms. A turn of the compost pile exposes their half naked fragility. Quick as a wink, they wriggle deeper [...]

This is a week of considering the practice of Sabbath keeping.  While others will be telling you just what their Sabbath keeping looks like, I want to share what it shouldn’t look like, a [...]

David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”  David answered Ahimelek the priest, “The king sent me [...]