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Daily Readings by Wild at Heart

Daily Readings are a daily excerpt from books and teachings from John and Stasi Eldredge and Morgan Snyder.

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3:03

Surrender to God

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/11/06

What does it mean to be defiantly joyful in this moment when I am dwelling on the ancient path of shame and disappointment in myself? Those paths are made of quicksand. I need a Savior. I have one. My friend Lisa Beck says that God planned our rescue before we even knew we were in trouble. I’m in trouble. I know it now. And the temptation is to hate myself for it. Do you know this place sometimes? Did you get irritated with your spouse this morning over some silly thing and speak to them

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3:50

Holy Grace

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/11/05

Now, I know my fellow evangelicals will rush to protest that it is the cross of Jesus Christ alone that opens the way to heaven for any person. No amount of personal righteousness could ever suffice. I believe this. It is grace alone — the unmerited and undeserved forgiveness of God — that opens the way for any of us to know God, let alone come into his kingdom. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so

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3:03

A Heart For His Kingdom

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/11/04

The thing you are made for is the renewal of all things. God has given you a heart for his kingdom—not the wispy vagaries of a cloudy heaven, but the sharp reality of the world made new. This is one of the most important things you can know about yourself. Did you know this about yourself? When was the last time you told yourself, as you looked in the mirror in the morning, Good morning; you have a heart for the kingdom. This explains so much; it will be such an enormous help to you. It

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1:45

Seek Him With All Your Heart

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/11/03

The book “Killing Lions” is a conversation between John and Sam Eldredge about the trials young men face. [John] Either we have God or we don’t. Either he is our ally, or we are on our own. What you believe about this affects everything else. If you don’t have God—and I mean as an intimate ally, right by your side—you must do your best to figure out a path for your life. This is of course how most men live. The entire world is based upon this assumption—universities, markets, career

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1:57

With All Your Heart

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/11/02

The heart is the connecting point, the meeting place between any two persons. The kind of deep soul intimacy we crave with God and with others can be experienced only from the heart. I know a man who took his daughter to dinner; she was surprised, delighted. For years she had been hoping he would pursue her. When they had been seated, he pulled out his Day Timer and began to review the goals he had set for her that year. "I wanted to burst into tears and run out of the restaurant," she

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1:52

A Story Not As Dangerous

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/11/01

Some of the sentences the Enemy accuses each of us with have been there since we were young; others were added in the ensuing years as Satan saw opportunity to strengthen our fear and cynicism through “interpreting” those events in our lives that seem to verify our particular Message of the Arrows. His purpose is to convince us that we need to create a story to live in that is not as dangerous as the Sacred Romance. As long as we do not admit that the deep things of our heart are there —

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0:55

God as Father

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/31

I’ve often wondered at the long lists found many places in the Bible that recount a roster of men as “the son of so-and-so, who was the son of so-and-so.” You’ll find many of these rosters in the Scriptures, and elsewhere in ancient literature. Perhaps these accounts reveal something we hadn’t noticed before—a father-view of the world held by those who wrote them, shared by those who would read them. Perhaps they saw in the father-son legacy the most significant of all legacies, that to

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2:45

Why Story?

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/30

The deepest convictions of our heart are formed by stories and reside there in the images and emotions of story. As a young boy, around the time my heart began to suspect that the world was a fearful place and I was on my own to find my way through it, I read the story of a Scottish discus thrower from the nineteenth century. He lived in the days before professional trainers and developed his skills alone, in the highlands of his native village. He even made his own iron discus from the

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3:09

Healing on Sabbath

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/29

Now—is Jesus more like Mother Teresa or William Wallace? The answer is ... it depends. If you're a leper, an outcast, a pariah of society whom no one has ever touched, if all you have ever longed for is just one kind word, then Christ is the incarnation of tender mercy. On the other hand, if you're a Pharisee, one of those self-appointed doctrine police ... watch out. On more than one occasion Jesus "picks a fight" with those notorious hypocrites.One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a

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1:53

The Movements of Your Heart

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/28

All sorts of awful things can seem to issue from your heart — anger, lust, fear, petty jealousies. If you think it's you, a reflection of what's really going on in your heart, it will disable you. It could stop your journey dead in its tracks. What you've encountered is either the voice of your flesh or an attempt of the Enemy to distress you by throwing all sorts of thoughts your way and blaming you for it. You must proceed on this assumption: your heart is good. If it seems that some foul

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2:11

"Old" Treasures

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/27

Jesus is everywhere. But let me give you a grace that will help you see him: He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has been instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.” (Matthew 13:52) This is such a beautiful, gracious, and stabilizing verse. It is immensely kind; it is also immensely cunning. So very like Jesus. Think of it — Jesus was shaking some of his listeners’ most cherished

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2:44

Into the Unknown

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/26

"The spiritual life cannot be made suburban,” said Howard Macey. “It is always frontier and we who live in it must accept and even rejoice that it remains untamed.” The greatest obstacle to realizing our dreams is the false self’s hatred of mystery. That’s a problem, you see, because mystery is essential to adventure. More than that, mystery is the heart of the universe and the God who made it. The most important aspects of any man’s world— his relationship with his God and with the people

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Revelation: Listening for His Voice

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/25

I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. (John 16:12-13)There's more that Jesus wants to say to you, much more, and now that his Spirit resides in your heart, the conversation can continue. Many good people never hear God speak to them personally for the simple fact that they've never been told that he does. But he does—generously, intimately. "He who belongs to God hears what God says" (John

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2:09

Dismissal and Cynicism

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/24

Something awful has happened, something terrible. Something worse, even, than the fall of man. For in that greatest of all tragedies, we merely lost Paradise — and with it, everything that made life worth living. What has happened since is unthinkable: we've gotten used to it. We're broken in to the idea that this is just the way things are. The people who walk in great darkness have adjusted their eyes.Regardless of our religious or philosophical beliefs, most of us live as though this

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0:53

A Truer View of Holiness

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/23

In order to understand what compels Jesus, you must keep in mind the distinction between the laws of God and the laws of men, and furthermore, that magnificent difference between the spirit of the law and the letter of the law.Jesus sets before us a deeper, truer view of holiness. The issues are first and foremost internal, before they are ever external. You can murder someone without ever pulling a trigger. You break the Sabbath if come Sunday night you’re exhausted. Especially if you’ve

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2:17

The Glory of God is to Be Fully Alive

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/22

"The glory of God is man fully alive." (Saint Irenaeus)When I first stumbled across this quote my initial reaction was ... You’re kidding me. Really? I mean, is that what you’ve been told? That the purpose of God — the very thing he’s staked his reputation on — is your coming fully alive? Huh. Well, that’s a different take on things. It made me wonder, What are God’s intentions toward me? What is it I’ve come to believe about that? Yes, we’ve been told any number of times that God does

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2:47

Experiencing Jesus

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/21

As a wise old sage was praying with me through some of the painful memories of my life, I was immediately reminded of the time in middle school when my first girlfriend broke my heart. These wounds can linger for a lifetime if you let them — the first cut is the deepest, and all that. We asked Jesus to take me back to the memory. I saw us, the girl and me; it was that fateful summer day. We were in the living room, just as it happened. Then I saw Jesus enter the room. He was quite stern

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1:43

A Sacred Romance

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/20

In all of our hearts lies a longing for a Sacred Romance. It will not go away in spite of our efforts over the years to anesthetize or ignore its song, or attach it to a single person or endeavor. It is a Romance couched in mystery and set deeply within us. It cannot be categorized into propositional truths or fully known any more than studying the anatomy of a corpse would help us know the person who once inhabited it.Philosophers call this Romance, this heart yearning set within us, the

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1:52

Our Story

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/19

Our life is a story. A rather long and complicated story that has unfolded over time. There are many scenes, large and small, and many "firsts." Your first step; your first word; your first day of school. There was your first best friend; your first recital; your first date; your first love; your first kiss; your first heartbreak. If you stop and think of it, your heart has lived through quite a story thus far. And over the course of that story your heart has learned many things. Some of

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2:24

His Intimate Allies

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2023/10/18

God created us in freedom to be his intimate allies, and he will not give up on us. He seeks his allies still. Not religion. Not good church people. Lovers. Allies. Friends of the deepest sort.I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart. (Jer. 24:7)It is the most beautiful of all love stories. On the other hand, Kierkegaard's tale The King and the Maiden doesn't capture the cost the

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