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.
Episodes
1486 episodes
Stop Making Deals With God
Ever caught yourself praying like you’re negotiating, promising God you’ll do better if He just fixes the situation you’re in? We’ve all felt that pull, and it can sound spiritual, but it quietly turns faith into a transaction. I unpack why “ba...
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Season 1
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Episode 1398
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5:50
No Reserves, No Retreats
King Tut was buried with more than 5,000 treasures, convinced he’d need them for the journey to paradise. That image is stunning, but it also raises a blunt question: when our time runs out, what actually lasts? Today’s five-minute start uses T...
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Season 1
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Episode 1397
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5:53
Friend Of God
The most shocking part of faith might not be God’s power, it might be His closeness. We start with something simple and human: music. A song can pull up fear in an instant, or flood a room with celebration, or bring tears without warning. That ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1396
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5:45
If God Forgets Your Sins Then Why Remember
Regret has a way of showing up early, right when the day is starting and your mind is quiet enough to look back. We name that feeling for what it is, then challenge the idea that your worst choices get to define your future. If you’ve been stuc...
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Season 1
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Episode 1395
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5:43
Stop Replaying The Past Like A Highlight Reel
Regret has a way of showing up early in the morning, right when you’re trying to start the day with a clear mind. I talk honestly about that heavy feeling of looking back and wishing you could rewrite a moment, undo a choice, or take back words...
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Season 1
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Episode 1394
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5:43
Breaking News: It Wasn’t “Their Fault” After All
Five minutes can change the tone of your whole day. We open with a look at why our culture feels more brittle and quick to blame, then trace how that reflex keeps us stuck in old pain. A wry poem about excuses becomes a mirror, showing how easi...
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Season 1
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Episode 1393
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5:28
From Back Pain To Bold Belief: How Discomfort Builds Strength And Faith
Ever notice how the moves that heal you are the ones that feel most awkward at first? We start with a real back injury and the rehab that followed, then open a wider lens: the same principle that loosens tight muscles can unlock a tighter, brav...
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Season 1
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Episode 1392
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5:12
When God Says “I Am,” Everything Changes
Five minutes can reset an entire day when truth meets melody. We dive into the Scripture woven through Shane & Shane’s “You Said I Am,” unpacking the seven “I Am” statements of Jesus and how each one meets a real human need: hunger for purp...
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Season 1
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Episode 1391
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6:02
Five Minutes To A Stronger Marriage
What if the strongest marriages don’t begin with dazzling compatibility, but with a deeper anchor each spouse holds on their own? We share how placing God first reshapes love, restores trust, and gives couples the tools to face anything togethe...
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Season 1
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Episode 1390
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5:46
Spring Is Coming: Hope For Tired Hearts
Feeling worn out by gray skies and long mornings? We’ve been there too, and today we pause to name the New Year blues while reaching for a deeper source of hope. Over five focused minutes, we move from “I’m tired” to truths that carry real weig...
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Season 1
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Episode 1389
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5:34
Anger, Nails, And Healing
Ever notice how often we say “I’m just frustrated” while our heartbeat and words tell a different story? We take a clear-eyed look at how frustration is simply anger in disguise, why modern life accelerates our reactions, and what it costs our ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1388
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5:20
What Happens When We’re Too Busy To Be Kind
Ever notice how hurry shrinks your field of vision? We open with the Good Samaritan and a revealing seminary experiment where students rushing to preach on compassion stepped past someone who needed it. That tension—between what we say we value...
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Season 1
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Episode 1387
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5:13
Come To The Table
Welcome to the Table...When a lavish banquet sits untouched, what does it reveal about the human heart—and the heart of God? Today we look at Jonathan Traylor's powerful song "The Table” a modern hymn of welcome and freedom. There’s a sea...
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Season 1
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Episode 1386
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5:28
Five Minutes in Psalm 91
The most powerful way to change a morning isn’t a new app or a perfect plan—it’s choosing where your heart will live. We open Psalm 91 and trace a simple path from anxiety to assurance: dwell, declare, and walk under the shadow of the Almighty....
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Season 1
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Episode 1385
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5:00
Morning Reset: Choosing The Right Priorities
Ever feel like you’re doing more and enjoying less? We open with Lamentations 3:40—“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord”—and use it as a compass to examine how our daily choices drift from our deepest values. Then we read...
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Season 1
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Episode 1384
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5:30
Psalms For A Five-Minute Morning Boost
Mornings can rush past before we ever find our footing, so we chose to begin with words that have guided hearts for centuries. We take a calm, five-minute walk through the Book of Psalms, exploring why these ancient lines still carry us through...
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Episode 1383
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5:35
Fuel For Faithful Work;
What if your calling isn’t a pulpit, but a blueprint? We dive into a five‑minute story that redefines purpose through the life of R. G. LeTourneau—the school dropout turned world‑shaping inventor who treated God as his chairman and generosity a...
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Season 1
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Episode 1382
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6:08
Morning Prayers, Lasting Peace
Start your day with a reset that trades anxiety for peace and rush for trust. We unpack how prayer moves from a last-ditch effort to a life-giving rhythm, rooted in Philippians 4:6–7 and strengthened by the promise that God’s peace can guard mi...
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Episode 1381
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5:18
Old Mine Shares Found
What if an old envelope could change your morning—and your mindset? We open a forgotten file, find a 1964 certificate for shares in a British Columbia silver and copper mine, and feel that familiar rush of what-ifs. The imagination sprints ahea...
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Season 1
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Episode 1380
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6:27
Five Minutes To Perfect Peace
Tired of feeling guilty when you slow down? We open the morning with a candid look at why rest feels wrong, then turn that reflex on its head with a memorable reading from Tim Hansel—equal parts humor and hard truth—about choosing sunsets over ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1379
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5:45
What Pollutes Your Peace
A clear stream turned cloudy, a village fell ill, and the fix came only when someone traced the water back to its hidden source. That simple story unlocks a deeper truth about the heart: what we allow at the spring shapes everything that flows ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1378
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5:06
Strength, Courage, Passion
What if courage doesn’t sound like a battle cry, but like a steady whisper in a quiet room? We open with Gideon—named a “mighty man of valor” while hiding—and explore how real might begins long before the spotlight, in the daily work of becomin...
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Season 1
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Episode 1377
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5:54
God Is In Your Story
Some mornings arrive with more weight than words can carry. We poured coffee, opened Psalm 139, and traced a line of hope through the idea that every day was known before it began—and that God is present in the details, especially the broken on...
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Season 1
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Episode 1376
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5:42
Today, You Choose
Five minutes can change the feel of your whole day. We open Proverbs 4:23—“Guard your heart, for it determines the course of your life”—and translate ancient wisdom into practical steps you can use before breakfast. Rather than promising instan...
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Season 1
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Episode 1375
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5:55
Retreat? Not When You’re Royalty
A single reminder can flip a whole day. We open with the Lionheart himself—King Richard—who turns from retreat to rally when an advisor calls him back to his name. That story becomes a mirror for our own mornings, when pressures mount and ident...
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Season 1
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Episode 1374
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5:30