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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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1:27

Questions Of Our Heart

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/28

It is possible to recover the lost life of our heart and with it the intimacy, beauty, and adventure of life with God. To do so we must leave what is familiar and comfortable — perhaps even parts of the religion in which we have come to trust — and take a journey. This journey first takes us on a search for the lost life of our heart, and for the voice that once called us in those secret places; those places and times when our heart was still with us. The pilgrimage of the heart leads us to

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3:25

Engagement with the Real

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/27

I ran across a news release so shocking I had to read it twice. It didn’t make the front page but it should have: the average person now spends 93 percent of their life indoors (this includes your transportation time in car, bus, or metro). Ninety-three percent — such a staggering piece of information. We should pause for a moment and let the tragedy sink in.That means if you live to be 100, you will have spent 93 of those years in a little compartment and only 7 outside in the dazzling,

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1:32

Will Everyone I Love Be There?

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/26

The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. Then he sent some more servants and said, "Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner...Come to the wedding banquet." But they paid no attention and went off — one to his field, another to his business. (Matthew 22:2-5)Now for a sobering truth, more sobering than any other we

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1:47

The Loss of Everything That Mattered

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/25

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (T. S. Eliot) Look, I am making all things new! (Jesus of Nazareth) See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come. (Song 2:11-12) I was walking in the woods and fields behind our house one evening four months after Brent's death. My heart was so aware of the loss — not only of Brent,

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1:53

As Good as It Gets?

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/24

If for all practical purposes we believe that this life is our best shot at happiness, if this is as good as it gets, we will live as desperate, demanding, and eventually despairing men and women. We will place on this world a burden it was never intended to bear. We will try to find a way to sneak back into the Garden and when that fails, as it always does, our heart fails as well. If truth be told, most of us live as though this life is our only hope.In his wonderful book The Eclipse of

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2:44

The Joy Set Before You

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/23

Because Jesus drank from the cup of suffering and wrath, that cup became the cup of salvation. The cup of suffering became the cup of joy. Turns out, it’s the same cup. Hebrews 12 says that it was for the joy that was set before Him that Jesus endured His tortuous death on the cross. But to get to the joy, He first had to be willing to drink the cup of suffering. In the midst of His excruciating pain, Jesus fixed His gaze on His Dad and held on to the joy that He knew was coming to Him on

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2:07

Restoration Fulfilled

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/22

Once upon a time the earth was whole and beautiful, shimmering like an emerald, filled with glory, bursting with anticipation. Such wonders waiting to be unveiled, such adventures waiting to be ours. Creation was like a fairy tale, a great legend—only true.Once upon a time we were whole and beautiful too, glorious, striding through the Garden like the sons and daughters of God. A daughter of God is a goddess; a son of God is a god. “I said, ‘You are “gods”; you are all sons of the Most

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3:12

Ask God

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/21

Peter was one of Jesus' closest friends, one of only three that were invited into his innermost circle. In Gethsemane, at his hour of greatest need, Jesus again took Peter aside, poured his heart out to him; he looked to Peter for strength. Three years of this, and who knows how many other stories. Peter must have known, I have a special place in Jesus' heart. So, how do you suppose Peter felt after he denied Christ — not just once, but three times? It must have been devastating.After the

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1:54

Memory, Imagination, and a Passion for Glory

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/20

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead and keeps desire alive. And meantime? In the meantime we need one more item for our journey. To appreciate what it may be, we have to step back and ask, what is all this for? The resurrection of our heart, the discovery of our role in the Larger Story, entering into the Sacred Romance — why do we pursue these things? If we say we seek all of this for our own sake, we're right back where we started: lost in our own story. Jesus said that

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2:02

Power of His Life

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/19

Before we go any farther in our search, I need to make the offer of Christianity clear: There is a way to be good again. The hope of Christianity is that we get to live life like Jesus. That beautiful goodness can be ours. He can heal what has gone wrong deep inside each of us. The way he does this is to give us his goodness; impart it to us, almost like a blood transfusion or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. We get to live his life — that is, live each day by the power of his life within us

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3:11

Relief vs. Restoration

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/18

I'm simply sitting on my back porch. Warm summer evening, cool breeze, beautiful sky now turning that deep navy blue just before dark.That's when the carnival started.Some agitated place in me started clamoring for relief. Even though the evening was washing over my soul, or maybe because it was allowing my soul to untangle, the carnival of desire started jockeying for my attention. I think there's still some ice cream in the freezer. It felt like two kingdoms were vying for my soul. the

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2:37

No Shortcuts

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/17

Today's Daily Reading is an excerpt from Morgan Snyder's book Becoming a KingSince the beginning of time, every age has faced unprecedented battles. Today’s Western world lives and breathes a gospel of now. Instant gratification is the way of our culture; it is the norm, the expectation. This gospel has deeply infiltrated authentic Christianity, and the desire to have it our way and to have it now is toxic to becoming restored as a man.When we turn to the gospel, the story of God and his

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2:41

Our Coming Renewal

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/16

Oh that I once past changing wereFast in thy paradise, where no flower can wither.(George Herbert)I think of the woman I helped in the grocery store last week. She was only in her thirties, I’m guessing, but she was bent over in her wheelchair, tiny and frail. A veil of shame and disappointment had permanently shaped her countenance; you have seen that tragic mask, I’m sure. I helped her reach the egg salad on the shelf above, but my heart broke for her. This is her life? What do you say to

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2:07

Take Some Time, Peter

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/15

After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes — from their own sons or from others?” “From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are exempt,” Jesus said to him. “But so that we may not offend

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1:58

Your True Glory

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/14

Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT)We haven’t yet seen anyone in their true glory. Including you. Yes, Mozart wrote symphonies as a child, and Picasso could draw before he could talk. But most human beings are profoundly thwarted in their “calling” because of circumstances that would never let them fly. This is not what God intended. How many Mozarts are there right now, hidden across the globe?Imagine,

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1:49

You, My Friend, Have an Enemy

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/13

I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. (Ezekiel 28:16)So evil entered the Story.I am staggered by the level of naïveté that most people live with regarding evil. They don't take it seriously. They don't live as though the Story has a Villain. Not the devil prancing about in red tights, carrying a pitchfork, but the incarnation of the very worst of every enemy you've met in every other story. Dear God — the

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1:19

An Internal Revolution

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/12

Jesus’ freedom is a difficult thing to teach on for many reasons; let me name two. First, there are certain types who will hear this and find it an excuse to live as they please. Many characters in our irreverent age “don’t care what others think.” Their freedom is abrasive and unholy. The freedom Jesus models is not a crass “giving the finger to the world.” Or the church, for that matter.Others will dismiss the freedom Jesus offers out of fear — either the fear of what people might think

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0:51

A Mystery

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/11

By “mystery” we don’t mean “forever beyond your knowing,” but “something to be explored.”“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,” says the book of Proverbs, “to search out a matter is the glory of kings” (25:2). God yearns to be known. But he wants to be sought after by those who would know him. He says, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” (Jer. 29:13). There is dignity here; God does not throw himself at any passerby. He is no harlot. If you would know

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1:34

You Have a New Life

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/10

The new covenant has two parts to it: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh" (Ezek. 36:26). God removed your old heart when he circumcised your heart; he gives you a new heart when he joins you to the life of Christ. That's why Paul can say "count yourselves dead to sin" and "alive to God in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 6:11).The story of the Incarnation is the story of a descent and resurrection ... one has

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1:24

Praying, Every Time, No Matter What

Daily Readings by Wild at Heart ·

2024/04/09

The book “Killing Lions” is a conversation between John and Sam Eldredge about the trials young men face. [John] Sam, What have you been learning as you pursue your dreams, especially as it relates to writing this book? Has it gone easily? What have you had to do to get breakthrough? [Sam] You know, sometimes it really should be quite obvious, but it isn’t always. Often I sit down to write and this little voice says, You suck. You are a terrible writer. You can’t do this. Just go get a

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