Green Pastures Devotions

One writer’s rule of life - 11.15.25 15.11.2025 7:06 ↓

It’s one of my regular reads – at least every year or two – and since there’s now an Audible edition read by the author himself, it’s a regular listen: Stephen King’s autobiographical sharing of his craft he entitled On Writing* . Classic. Think of it as one successful writer’s rule of life for aspiring writers…

My personal habit stacking (before I knew what that was) - 11.14.25 14.11.2025 7:21 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  1 Timothy 4.12-16 MSG 

Habit Stacking - 11.13.25 13.11.2025 7:29 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  1 Corinthians 3.9-15 MSG 

A concrete plan of action - 11.12.25 12.11.2025 7:07 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 15.19-22 MSG 

Implementation Intention - 11.11.25 11.11.2025 7:15 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Proverbs 21.5 

Sit down and figure the cost - 11.10.25 10.11.2025 6:14 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Luke 14.28-30 MSG

I need to talk… 11.8.25 08.11.2025 5:55 ↓

As we pursue the practice of “confessing your sins to one another so that you may be healed.” It’s Matthew McConaughey’s experience at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, narrated in his book Greenlights * offered here as we pursue the practice of confession.

The God-setting-things-right - 11.7.25 07.11.2025 7:34 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 3.21-26 MSG 

He saw himself as he was - 11.6.25 06.11.2025 7:17 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 3.19-20 MSG 

Their throats are gaping graves - 11.5.25 05.11.2025 7:40 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 3.13-18 MSG 

No one’s living right; I can’t find a single one - 11.4.25 04.11.2025 8:03 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Romans 3.10-12 MSG 

My sins are staring me down - 11.3.25 03.11.2025 7:34 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Psalm 51.1-6 MSG

This being human is a guest house - 11.1.25 01.11.2025 4:24 ↓

Two readings to contemplate as you take up the invitation to notice, name, feel, and offer those darker, more painful emotions that tend to surface as we practice the way of Jesus and thus make space “for the emergence of a lifetime of unprocessed pain before God and with community.”

Making space for the pain of the world - 10.31.25 31.10.2025 6:45 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Mark 15.22-25, 33-37 MSG 

Let it do its work - 10.30.25 30.10.2025 7:13 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  James 1.2-4 MSG 

Then Job broke the silence - 10.29.25 29.10.2025 6:14 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Job chapter 3 MSG 

Gethsemane: the olive press - 10.28.25 28.10.2025 7:36 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  John 12.27-28 MSG 

He plunged into an agonizing sorrow - 10.27.25 27.10.2025 7:15 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Matthew 26.36-38 MSG

The premier psalm of spiritual formation - 10.25.25 25.10.2025 4:12 ↓

Psalm 1

Find what’s doable. Start there - 10.24.25 24.10.2025 5:05 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  1 Timothy 4.8-11 MSG 

I run with purpose in every step - 10.23.25 23.10.2025 8:06 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  1 Corinthians 9.24-27 NIV 

Hupogrammon - 10.22.25 22.10.2025 7:39 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  1 Peter 2.21 MSG 

If you want the result, embrace the routine - 10.21.25 21.10.2025 7:13 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Mark 1.12-13 MSG 

Reestablish contact with a slice of eternity - 10.20.25 20.10.2025 7:14 ↓

Today’s Scripture reading :  Mark 1.35 MSG

Glacial growth: finding the wobble - 10.18.25 18.10.2025 5:45 ↓

From Eugene Peterson’s book Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology.