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
28 episodes
Let your light shine Day 3
Darkness feels powerful when you treat it like an equal opponent to light. We challenge that assumption with a simple, almost “physics-like” way to think about spiritual warfare: darkness is not a force that advances on its own, it’s what’s lef...
Let your light shine Day 2
Your faith might be strong, but is it insulated? Josh opens Tuesday with a challenge that hits close to home: we’ve learned how to live, work, eat, and even “do church” inside a Christian bubble that keeps us safe from messy people and messy pr...
Let your light shine Day 1
Jesus walks out of the wilderness and makes a move that still confronts our instincts today. He doesn’t head to the religious center to prove a point. He goes straight to Zebulon and Naphtali, the Galilee of the Gentiles, a rough borderland sha...
How to beat the devil: Day 5
Most of us don’t think of ourselves as “retreating” but it shows up in how we live: always bracing, always reacting, always hoping we can survive the next hit. This Field Notes message flips that posture with a simple question: what changes whe...
How to beat the devil: Day 4
Temptation does not usually beat us with force. It beats us with access. Today we take a hard look at Genesis 3 and the quiet detail that changes everything: Eve is standing right in front of the tree. The serpent does not have to chase, persua...
How to beat the devil: Day 3
You can know what the Bible says, understand how it applies, and still feel trapped in the same patterns. We talk about the uncomfortable gap between spiritual knowledge and spiritual change, and why the missing ingredient is often grit, not mo...
How to beat the devil: Day 2
A Bible verse can be 100% accurate and still be used in a way that leads you away from the truth. We start with a quick reminder from Jesus’ temptation at the temple: the enemy doesn’t always attack Scripture by rejecting it, but by quoting it ...
How to beat the devil: Day 1
“I didn’t know” is the sentence we reach for when we get caught, but it doesn’t hold up in court and it doesn’t hold up in the life of faith. We kick off the week with a clear-eyed look at spiritual warfare and temptation through Matthew 4:3–11...
Don't take the bait: Day 5
You can know the “right” things and still lose the same fight if your blind spot stays hidden. That’s the tension we sit with today as we close out our five day Field Notes devotional on “Don’t Take The Bait” and the ways the devil tries to com...
Don’t Take The Bait: Day 4
The most dangerous bait doesn’t look like evil. It looks like a perfectly reasonable upgrade that promises peace if you can just get it. Today we sit with one of the clearest patterns in spiritual warfare: the lust of the eyes, the des...
Don't take the bait: Day 3
The quickest way to lose your peace is to start living like your life is a performance. When your worth depends on being noticed, praised, and affirmed, you end up chasing a crowd and calling it influence. We talk about a tactic Scripture names...
Don’t Take The Bait: Day 2
Temptation rarely announces itself as temptation. It shows up looking practical, comforting, and harmless, like a lure that flashes in the water and hides the hook until it’s too late. We start with a simple story from fishing and use it to exp...
Don’t Take The Bait: Day 1
Temptation has a sneaky way of making us feel powerless, like we’re stuck until life calms down. We push back on that story with a simple theme for Day 1 of Field Notes: don’t take the bait. When we give the devil too much credit, we start livi...
Day 5: God felt Hunger, what's your excuse?
We remind you that you’re not stuck because you lack power, but because you haven’t engaged it. We challenge you to stop drifting and start applying the Holy Spirit’s strength to one real change at home today. • day five focus on using...
Day 4: God Felt Hunger, what's your excuse?
We challenge the “I’m only human” line as a spiritual loophole that lowers the standard and keeps us from real growth. We use an archery picture and Ephesians 5 to call ourselves to aim at Jesus and choose sanctification even when it feels unco...
Day 3: God felt hunger, what's your excuse?
Betrayal from someone close lands like an inside attack, and we feel it in our gut and our pride. We look at Judas in Matthew 26 and see how Jesus chooses forgiveness and peace even when He knows exactly what’s happening. • trust i...
Day 2: God felt hunger, what's your excuse?
We talk about Jesus as the God who weeps and sweats, and why that means He understands our grief, anxiety, and pressure up close. We challenge the habit of treating Him like a distant manager and practice trusting Him with the heavy things we c...
Day 1 God Felt Hunger
Jesus felt real hunger after forty days of fasting, and that truth removes our favorite excuse that God cannot relate to human weakness. We talk about how we numb discomfort with distractions and how to use those moments to build real dependenc...
The Wilderness Day 5
We talk about why spiritual battles can leave us wounded and why pretending we are fine only pushes us into isolation. We look at how Jesus receives ministry after the wilderness and take one practical step to stop bleeding out in the dark.&nbs...
The Wilderness Day 4
We talk with Pastor Josh about why trials expose our lowest level of training and what our faith defaults to when stress hits. We challenge ourselves to stop chasing comfort and start building spiritual muscle memory through daily habits. ...
The Wilderness Day 3
We do the math on modern life and realize how little non-distracted time we may have left each day after work, sleep, and screens. We challenge ourselves to reclaim silence, get outside, and treat attention like the spiritual issue it really is...
The Wilderness Day 2
We talk about why spiritual attacks often come right after spiritual victories and how to recognize the “momentum tax” when you start moving forward. We connect Jesus’ baptism and wilderness temptation to Elijah’s crash after Mount Carmel, then...
The Wilderness Day 1
We look at how Jesus goes from baptism to the wilderness immediately, and why that matters when our own lives feel dry, quiet, or lonely. We reframe the wilderness as a purposeful place God uses to form us, then close with a simple five minute ...