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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Stand Your Ground
A tired buffalo walks into an arena, lies down in the dirt, and instantly disappoints the crowd. Then the fighting bull charges and everything changes. The collision is so violent it sounds like an explosion, but when the dust clears, Pierre th...
Music Monday: The Goodness Of God
Some songs don’t just sound good, they steady you. Today’s Music Monday centers on “The Goodness Of God,” a worship anthem that keeps finding people right where they are, especially when life takes an unexpected turn into pain, uncertainty, or ...
Before You Judge
One small detail can change the entire story and if we miss it, we can end up judging someone unfairly. We start with a quick classroom scene where a teacher thinks her student cannot do basic addition. Two apples plus two apples should be four...
I Tried To Lead And Stepped On Her Foot
This episode was originally broadcast in the midst of Covid on May 20, 2020, The Pandemic is gone but these truths still speak to us. Enjoy!One awkward ballroom dance lesson exposed a problem I didn’t want to admit: I d...
God’s Foundation In Five Minutes
Shame has a loud voice, and fear loves to narrate your future. We push back by remembering what God has already done and what He has promised to keep doing, so we can live in the moment with a steady heart and real hope.We walk through ...
What If Your Burden Is Part Of A Bigger Plan
A contact lens goes missing halfway up a granite cliff, and what happens next is so unlikely it sticks with you for years. We tell the story of Brenda, a young woman who agrees to go rock climbing even though she’s scared to death, then faces a...
Saved By A Raincoat And A Trash Can
The question “Why, God?” can hit before your feet even touch the floor. Today I sit with that question instead of rushing past it, using Isaiah 55:8 as the starting point: God’s thoughts are not like ours, and His ways go farther than we can se...
Choose Encouragement
The fastest way to change the temperature in a room is not a speech or a strategy, it’s a few well-chosen words. Today we’re talking about encouragement and why it’s one of the most overlooked tools for strengthening people who are tired, anxio...
Doers Not Hearers
If your faith is mostly something you think about, you might be missing the part that actually lasts. Today I read a bracing quote from Frederick Robertson that draws a hard line between passing feelings and lasting impact: what you do is what ...
Carrying The Heavy Load
A contact lens goes missing on a sheer rock face, panic sets in, and a simple prayer turns into one of the most surprising answers you’ll ever hear. We tell the story of Brenda, a young woman who pushes past fear to climb a giant granite cliff,...
Would A Stranger Meet Jesus In You
Can someone tell you’ve been with Jesus before you ever mention His name? That’s the uncomfortable, clarifying question we sit with today, and it comes straight out of Acts 4:13. People looked at Peter and John ordinary men without impressive c...
Music Monday With I Can Only Imagine
What would you do if you met Jesus face to face? That single question is the engine behind MercyMe’s “I Can Only Imagine,” and it’s the question we sit with on today’s Music Monday as we take a closer look at why this Christian song continues t...
Make Joy The Family Legacy
What if the story your family tells about you someday isn’t about what you fixed, what you enforced, or what you worried about, but about how safe and joyful it felt to be with you? We’re reflecting on a simple decision with big impact: moving ...
Amazing Grace For A Messy Past
A slave trader becomes the voice behind “Amazing Grace” and the contrast is meant to stop us in our tracks. We sit with the story of John Newton, not to sanitize his past, but to show what real transformation looks like when the grace of God me...
New Mercies Every Morning
Yesterday can cling to you like fog. If you wake up replaying mistakes, questioning your worth, or bracing for a hard day, this five minute devotional is a reset you can actually feel. We anchor the morning in Lamentations 3 and the promise tha...
Beating FOMO With Faith
FOMO can feel like a low-grade panic you carry in your pocket. You open your phone for a second and suddenly you are measuring your real life against someone else’s best angles, best meals, best trips, and best timing. That fear of missing out ...
God Says “I Am” And We Learn To Trust
One word in a worship chorus can carry an entire theology, and it’s easy to sing it without ever stopping to ask what it means. Today’s Music Monday takes Elevation Worship’s song “Jehovah” and uses it as a quick, Scripture-based guide to the n...
Friday Faith Reset
IT'S OUR FRIDAY ROUNDUP.A week can scatter your focus fast, so we’re doing a Friday roundup that pulls the best moments into one clear line you can carry into the weekend: God is trustworthy, His Word is worth opening, and the healthiest...
The Tragedy Of Absalom
A good-looking life can hide an ugly heart, and Absalom proves it. Today we walk through one of the most sobering Bible stories in 2 Samuel, the rise and fall of King David’s son who had every advantage yet couldn’t outrun pride, revenge, and a...
Stop Looking Back
One short line from Jesus can stop you in your tracks: “Remember Lot’s wife.” I use that tiny verse as a doorway into a big question: why is it so hard to leave the past behind, even when God is clearly leading us forward? If you’ve ever felt p...
A Love Note Left Unread
A love note slipped out of a hardcover thriller and stopped me in my tracks. It was simple, handwritten, and tender: “I love you and miss you,” finished with a little heart. The strange part was that the book looked untouched, like the person w...
Easter Morning Evidence
Easter isn’t a warm metaphor in my mind, it’s a bold claim about reality: Jesus is alive. On this powerful Monday morning, I take a fast but serious look at why the resurrection of Jesus Christ still stands as the turning point of human history...
Good Friday In Five Minutes
Good Friday can sound like a contradiction until you slow down and ask what the day actually means. Over a simple morning coffee, we walk through the turning points that define the Christian story and why one brutal cross becomes the clearest p...
Thursday Of Passion Week Through Judas And Peter
Thursday of Passion Week is a night full of sharp turns: a shared meal, a towel and basin, a prediction of betrayal, a warning of denial, and a walk into the darkness of Gethsemane. We slow down and trace the emotional and spiritual weight of t...
Thirty Coins And A Terrible Trade
Hosanna one day, a murder plot the next, that swing is where Passion Week gets painfully real. We’re in Jerusalem with Jesus as the cheers fade, the city hardens, and He looks out over it all and weeps. Then He walks straight into the temple an...