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Choose Joy: 3-Minute Devotions for Women. If you're short on time, these quick devotionals will bring a little extra happiness to your day in just three minutes (so there's no excuse not to put ...
Upper Room Ministries began emailing the Upper Room daily devotional guide in 1997. In the years following, many Christian organizations began adding a daily devotional to their website. The following is an incomplete list of daily devotional services available through recognized Christian organizations. Campus Crusade for Christ; Crosswalk.com
Beside The Still Waters is a daily devotional widely used by adherents of the Anabaptist Christian tradition. Each page of the "devotional begins with a Scripture reference and verse on a theme" with a subsequent "reflection on the theme, followed by an inspirational aphorism or a line from a hymn, and a few additional biblical references for those who would like to read through the entire ...
Some devotions have the form of Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ. Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus first appeared in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, but most current devotions are attributed to Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690) [24] and were later encouraged by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor. [25]
Christian devotional literature (also called devotionals or Christian living literature) is religious writing that Christian individuals read for their personal growth and spiritual formation. [1] Such literature often takes the form of Christian daily devotionals . [ 2 ]
The devotional approach of The Imitation of Christ emphasises the interior life and withdrawal from the mundanities of the world, as opposed to the active imitation of Christ practised by other friars. [1] The devotions of the books emphasize devotion to the Eucharist as the key element of spiritual life. [1]
Formal references to this devotion first appeared in the 11th and 12th centuries. [20] However, the most significant source for the devotion to the Sacred Heart in its present form was Visitandine Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690), who claimed to have received a series of private revelations from 1673 to 1675.
Jerry and Becky Evans argue that the quiet time is a time of encouragement, strengthening, and insight to the Christian, and "spiritual food" for a person's soul. [4] They suggest that it is a "time of complete focus on God" that "continues throughout a person’s entire life."