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Field Notes: 5 Day Devo
Field Notes is your daily 5-minute briefing designed to take Sunday's truth and put it to work Monday through Friday. Grab your gear and get ready for a daily rundown, challenge, and action step that will equip you to live intentionally for the Kingdom.
Episodes
68 episodes
Why Physical Needs Feel So Loud
Hunger has a way of hijacking your attention. So does fatigue, stress, and the constant itch for comfort. We open Matthew 4:3–4 and look at the first temptation Jesus faces after forty days of fasting, and it’s shockingly ordinary: “Turn these ...
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The Lie "If I Could Just....."
That constant whisper of “If I could just…” can sound like motivation, but it often acts like a master. We talk through the lie that keeps so many of us running: if we can only tweak the right external circumstances, the internal chaos will fin...
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Snacking vs. Starving for God (Matthew 5:6) | Field Notes Day 1
Welcome to a brand new week of Field Notes! Today, we are kicking off a 5-day devotional series called "Happy Are the Hungry" by looking closely at Matthew 5:6.We throw the word “starving” around a lot in our culture, but most o...
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What If Your Small Kingdom Is The Problem
Control feels responsible until it starts eating your peace. We talk about one of Jesus’ most upside down promises, “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5), and why meekness isn’t timidity, it’s clarity. When I rem...
Why Jesus Refuses To Fight Back In Gethsemane
Silence can feel like losing, especially when you’re accused, misunderstood, or publicly challenged. We walk through a moment in Matthew 26:52–53 that flips that instinct on its head: Jesus is betrayed and arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, ...
How To Stop Fighting Every Argument And Start Living With Peace;
Your feed is loud, your group chats are spicy, and your blood pressure is one comment away from skyrocketing. We slow the pace with a midweek devotional that cuts straight to the heart of modern conflict: not everything deserves your reaction, ...
What If Your Anger Is Untamed Power
Strength gets praised when it’s loud, forceful, and impossible to ignore, but Scripture points to a different kind of power: the kind that stays under control. Pastor Josh takes us to Proverbs 16:32, where real greatness is tied to being slow t...
Meekness Is Not Weakness
Meek gets treated like a weakness in modern life, but Jesus calls it a blessing. We open Monday’s Field Notes by naming the cultural lie head-on: most of us hear “meek” and picture someone timid, easily pushed around, and afraid to speak. No wo...
Pride, Guilt, And The Paid In Full Gospel
Ever notice how uncomfortable it can feel to let someone fully pick up the check? That little moment where you reach for your wallet anyway can reveal something deeper than etiquette. We start with a simple dinner scenario and uncover a spiritu...
Two Dangerous Ditches And The Road To Grace
Two reactions show up almost every time we get confronted with our sin, and both of them quietly keep us stuck. One is minimizing: brushing it off, excusing it, calling it normal so we do not have to change. The other is maximizing: letting fai...
Bait And Boundaries
Temptation doesn’t usually kick down the door. It knocks politely, dressed up like an option you can manage, a “small” compromise, or a quick fix that won’t matter tomorrow. We’re naming that tactic for what it is: the deception of the bait, wh...
Stop Minimizing Sin And Let Grace Meet You
The easiest lie to believe is the one that sounds humble: “I’m not perfect, but I’m not that bad.” That line can keep us stuck for years. Today’s short devotion is a straight look into the mirror, the kind that doesn’t argue back, and it asks a...
What If Pain Is The Doorway To Joy
Happiness is aggressively marketed as a life with no sharp edges: no grief, no awkward talks, no conviction, no hard truths. But that kind of happiness is thin, easy to lose, and often built on numbing. Today on Field Notes, we start Day 1 of o...
Every Good Gift
Most of us grind all week with one finish line in mind: the weekend. But if rest is a gift, it raises a sharper question. When you look at the good things in your life, do you instinctively say, “Look what I built,” or do you quietly recognize,...
Desperate Dependence
Pride rarely announces itself. It usually sounds like “I’ve got it,” “I don’t need help,” or “If I’m honest, people will think less of me.” Today’s Field Notes devotion pushes straight into that tension with one of Jesus’ most misunderstood lin...
The External Cannot Fill The Internal
You can have more money, more status, and more comfort than you ever imagined and still feel hollow. That is not a failure of effort; it is a clue about what the human heart is made for. Today’s Field Notes devotional builds off our sermon “Hap...
The Secret To Contentment
Contentment sounds simple until you try to live it on a normal Wednesday. We open up a short but challenging idea from Paul in Philippians 4: he didn’t stumble into peace, he learned it and the secret has nothing to do with pretending life is f...
The Myth Of Happiness
Happiness is the one thing we all say we want and the one thing that keeps slipping through our fingers. We kick off the week by calling out the myth of happiness: the way our culture trains us to chase a perfect set of circumstances and then l...
The “Except For Me” Bible Study Plan
We’ve all done it: read the Bible while silently hoping there’s an asterisk somewhere that says, “except for you.” As we close out our five-day Field Notes devotional, we sit with Matthew 5 and face the tension head-on, because the Sermon on th...
No Add-Ons Allowed
You can’t meet Jesus and stay the same, and that truth gets uncomfortable fast when your calendar, habits, and relationships still look like “the old you.” We wrestle with the blunt clarity of 2 Corinthians 5:17: if anyone is in Christ, the old...
The Upside-Down Kingdom
The world tells you to climb, compete, and control. Jesus tells you the way up is down and he means it. Today on Field Notes, we sit in Matthew 5:1-2 and name the tension most of us feel when Scripture cuts across our default instincts. If you ...
Who Is In The Crowd?
The crowd around Jesus wasn’t a single type of person, and that’s the point. When Jesus climbs the mountain in Matthew 5 and begins to teach, we’re forced to ask a question that can’t be dodged with church attendance or good intentions: where d...
The Posture Of The King
Jesus climbs a mountain, sits down, and opens His mouth to teach and that one simple posture changes how we should hear every word that follows. In the first century, a rabbi or judge didn’t sit to relax. They sat to rule. So when Jesus takes a...
Orchestrate The Meeting
You don’t need a polished testimony or perfect theological answers to share your faith. You need one thing: the courage to “orchestrate the meeting.” We take a sharp line from Man on Fire and lay it alongside Romans 10 to reveal a clear, freein...
Be A Flashlight In The Dark
What if the reason your faith feels small is because you’ve kept it in well-lit rooms? Today’s Field Notes devotional lands on a vivid challenge: a flashlight only matters when you carry it into the dark. We’re not talking about chasing drama o...
