It can’t be denied: The Jesus of Sarah Young sounds suspiciously like a twenty-first century, Western, middle-aged woman. Today’s blog is sponsored by the D3 Youth Conference, March 8-9, 2024 at Boyce College in Louisville, KY. When the path before you is dotted with difficulties, beware of measuring your strength against those challenges. It is one of the realities of the Christian faith that skeptics love to criticize—the reality that there are a host of different denominations and a multitude of different expressions of Christian worship. The publishing team at Thomas Nelson celebrates the tremendous impact of her message, which will continue to encourage generations of readers to approach God confidently and joyfully.

I suppose it’s not surprising that the most popular book reviews are all for books I disagreed with in various ways. Intimacy with the Bible comes by slow, meditative reading that focuses on small portions—deep study of books, chapters, and verses. In 1977, Sarah and Stephen joined World Presbyterian Missions, which in 1983 merged into Mission to the World (MTW), the global missions-sending agency of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).While this is not necessarily an unbiblical or inappropriate message, it hardly matches the thrust of the Bible which always pushes toward or flows from the gospel of Jesus Christ. In 1991, Sarah and Stephen moved to Melbourne, Australia, and began a Japanese language church in cooperation with the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. Young was a member of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), where her husband Stephen is an ordained minister and third-generation Christian missionary to Japan. I mean, Jesus’ words to Sarah are literally packaged into a devotional, so that we can do our devotionals from them every day.

Speaking broadly, there are two approaches to daily Bible reading: reading for intimacy or reading for familiarity.

With 365 devotions, this padded hardcover edition is a favorite for its small size and is a perfect fit on a nightstand or in a travel bag. While both the iOS and Android apps look and function the same way, their similarities are only skin deep. We supply a fantastic range of beautiful, practical and contemporary Christian themed gifts for women, men and children, including jewellery, stationery, art, home decor and prayer and devotional items. Quotes can be shared to popular social networking sites, such as Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter).