Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
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What If Flexibility Is A Spiritual Discipline
A closed highway can reveal what we really worship: comfort, control, or trust. After a Sunday that starts with joy at church, a simple drive home turns into a five-hour detour caused by nearby forest fires and massive traffic backups. By the t...
Big Rocks First
Your life can feel completely full and still be missing what matters most. Today I share a quick story from a high school classroom that has stuck with me for years: a teacher, a glass jar, and a lesson that exposes how easily we let small dist...
God is Good
Some mornings hit hard before you even finish your coffee. If you’ve been wondering how to reconcile a good God with a painful week, this one is for you. We open Monday with a steady reminder and a singable worship hook from Austin French’s “Go...
Nothing Too Hard For God
Some mornings, the hardest part is not the problem itself, it’s the quiet thought that God won’t show up for you. Maybe you’ve prayed before and nothing changed. Maybe you feel disqualified by your past, worn down by stress, or convinced you wa...
A Little Ice Cream For The Soul
A six-year-old asks to say grace at a restaurant and casually thanks God for food, liberty, justice, and maybe ice cream for dessert. People laugh, but one sharp comment from a nearby adult turns the moment into something heavier, and the quest...
Stop The Racing Mind
Your body is tired, you finally crawl into bed, and then your mind flips on like a stadium light. Suddenly it is replaying every conversation, every deadline, every “what if,” and sleep feels farther away by the minute. I hear this from so many...
What is Right, is Not Always Popular
He was ten meters from an easy win, and he gave it away on purpose. That’s not a motivational poster line, it’s a true story from a 2012 cross country race that still stops me in my tracks. Spanish runner Iván Anaya watches Olympic medalist Abe...
The Train Ticket Story That Explains God’s Grace
You know that restless feeling when you want reassurance now, even though the moment hasn’t arrived yet? We start with a story from Corrie ten Boom about walking to a train station as a child and begging her father to hand over her ticket early...
We've Been Lied To
You wake up, grab your coffee, and the first voice you hear is not peace, it’s accusation: you messed up too much, God is tired of you, your prayers won’t matter. We’re not letting that lie run your Monday. I’m Danny Mac, and I’m starting the d...
The Roots
Wind sounds like the last thing you would forget in an ecosystem, yet that is exactly what happened in a famous desert experiment. When scientists built Biosphere 2, they carefully managed water, temperature, soil, and plant life inside closed ...
Don’t Quit
Quitting rarely happens in one dramatic moment. It’s usually a slow fade: a goal you cared about gets crowded out, your passion cools, and one missed day turns into a new normal. Today I’m talking about that drift and how to fight it with perse...
Get Out of My Way
A slow car at a yellow light shouldn’t end with handcuffs, fingerprints, and a holding cell, but that’s exactly what happens in today's unforgettable story on Starting Right. The punchline is uncomfortable and painfully relatable: the officer s...
Needing A Word From God?
When life gets tight and your prayers feel like they hit the ceiling, the simplest sentence can carry the most weight: “I need a word from God.” If you’ve ever felt that mix of exhaustion, frustration, and quiet fear, you’re in good company. I ...
You’re Complete In Christ So Stop Listening To Bad Advice
The fastest way to wear yourself out is to live by advice from people who are guessing. In this short, morning reset, we lean into a better source: God’s Word as the instruction manual for real life, especially when you feel drained, stressed, ...
Failure Is Not Your Identity
Failure has a way of getting personal fast. One bad decision, one awkward moment, one plan that collapses, and suddenly we’re not just looking at something that went wrong, we’re questioning who we are. I’m Danny Mac and today I’m pushing back ...
Five Minutes Of Laughs To Start Today
A kid cries all the way home after a christening because he thinks “a Christian home” means he’s getting replaced. Another kid hears a question about getting to heaven and answers with ruthless five-year-old logic. If you’ve been carrying stres...
The Time Peter Tried To “Fix” Jesus
“Get behind me, Satan” is one of the most jarring lines Jesus ever speaks, and it comes from a moment that starts with something that sounds almost loving. Peter hears Jesus predict suffering and death, panics, and tries to pull Him back to saf...
Keeping Emotions In Check
Peter tries to stop Jesus and gets a response none of us expect: “Get behind me, Satan.” That single line in Mark 8 can sound harsh until you listen closer to what’s really being confronted: a mindset shaped by fear, comfort, and short-term sur...
A 16th Century Song Still Speaks To Modern Trouble
A song can be more than a melody. Sometimes it is a shelter. Today we share the story behind “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” one of the oldest Christian hymns still sung around the world, and we connect it to the one line that keeps showing up ...
Larry King’s One Question And The Claim That Changes History
Larry King was the 'king' of the interview on CNN for over 25 years. Near the end of his career, he was asked, "If you could interview anyone from history, who would that be?" His response was, "I would interview Jesus Christ and ask him ...
Who Would Camp In Your Yard When You Break
Love is easy to talk about and harder to practice when someone is messy, distant, or shut down. We start with a clear, grounding framework from the Bible: two relationships sit at the center of a faithful life, our relationship with God and our...
Learning to Play Together
Christian social media can feel like a battlefield, and it’s exhausting when the loudest voices are believers tearing down other believers. We’re talking honestly about why that spirit is so discouraging, and why stepping back from the noise ca...
Influence From The Bottom
One of the most powerful leaders in the Bible is a person we never even learn the name of. She’s a young Israeli girl taken captive, forced into slavery, and placed in the home of Naaman, a high-ranking Syrian commander with leprosy. And yet he...
Forgiveness Without Counting
Forgiveness can feel noble in theory and impossible in real life, especially when you were blamed, dismissed, or hurt again and again. I start the morning with a question most of us have asked privately: how many times am I supposed to forgive ...
Stop Living For Approval
One careless comment can make you feel like you have to rewrite your whole personality. We’ve been hearing it more and more: people are stressed, tense, and hesitant to speak because they don’t know how others will react. That kind of uncertain...