{"id":427,"date":"2026-01-01T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.193.40.20\/greggfriend-wp\/?p=427"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:51:20","slug":"not-a-devotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Not A Devotional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/104.193.40.20\/greggfriend-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-90.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-90.png 270w, https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-90-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not a big fan of daily devotionals for myself. Skye Jethani has a daily devotional called, <strong>With God Daily<\/strong>, which he promotes as a daily devotional for those who dislike daily devotionals. He differentiates his daily devotional with the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Smart <\/strong>rather than <strong>sentimental <\/strong>and <strong>curious <\/strong>rather than <strong>cliche<\/strong>, this is unlike any devotional you\u2019ve read before. <strong>With God Daily<\/strong> is designed for a digital generation seeking an integrated faith. Drawing from Scripture, history, art, science, philosophy, and current events, the reflections of award-winning author Skye Jethani will deepen your communion with God and transform how you see the world.&#8221; (emphasis mine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though I like Skye on <strong>The Holy Post<\/strong>, even his promotion has not prompted me to commit to his daily devotional. I prefer to commit my daily time to the <strong>Daily Office of Morning Prayer<\/strong> by<strong> Forward Movement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year I discovered this one year daily devotional, <strong>Every Day for Everyone: 365 Devotions From Genesis To Revelation<\/strong>, by two of my favorite Biblical scholars, John Goldingay (OT) and N. T. Wright (NT) . I committed to read it daily for one year. It is a scholarly devotional, yet accessible to everyone and it is not full of cliches. <strong>I heartily recommend committing to this devotional for one year. Warning: it might shift your paradigm.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the beginning of 2025, I set a goal to complete reading 52 books on my Kindle in 2025. Yesterday, Kindle said I completed 60 books in 2025. Some were scholarly books, some were popular books with Christian themes, most were fun novels with lawyer themes, and a couple were children&#8217;s books written by the author I love the most, <strong><em>Kristin Emily Friend<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a big fan of daily devotionals for myself. Skye Jethani has a daily devotional called, With God Daily, which he promotes as a daily devotional for those who dislike daily devotionals. He differentiates his daily devotional with the following. &#8220;Smart rather than sentimental and curious rather than cliche, this is unlike any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}