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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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...
What Is Polluting Your Peace?
Clean water can look perfectly fine until something upstream poisons it. That’s the gripping picture we start with today, a true story from a village that had a clear, safe stream for years, until people began getting sick and no one could figu...
Canada Day Reflections On Faith That Shaped A Nation
Canada Day is a celebration, but it’s also a mirror. When we pause long enough to look, we start asking bigger questions: What shaped Canada into the kind of place that values freedom and justice? What happens when a culture forgets the differe...
Grace Under Pressure
One bad call can take something from you that you never get back and the real test is what you do next. Today I tell a classic MLB story from 2010, when Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga was one out away from a perfect game and a safe ca...
Why Lauren Daigle’s “You Say” Still Resonates
Today's Music Monday episode features Lauren Daigle's powerful #1 song from 2021, 'You Say" which sat in the number 1 place on Billboards Top Christian Songs for 73 consecutive weeks. The strength of this song comes from its message. It i...
Burn Your Mistakes And Rebuild
Your whole world can change in a moment, and the first battle is often internal: fear, regret, and that sinking feeling that you won’t recover. We tell a striking story from Thomas Edison’s life when a spectacular 1914 fire tore through his Wes...
Role Models
That sinking thought of “Why would God want me?” can show up on your best days and hit even harder on your worst ones. We all know what it’s like to replay our mistakes, feel ineffective with our gifts, and wonder if we have finally disqualifie...
Stop Running And Start Facing Hard Things
A storm is coming. Do you run, or do you do what the buffalo does and walk straight into it? That one image flips the way we think about fear, discomfort, and the hard seasons we all face. I share a quick story from a family trip across the nor...
Why Trials Expose What You Already Know
Pressure has a way of telling the truth. When life turns up the heat, it does not just reveal what we feel, it reveals what we actually believe. Today I share a simple idea that can change how you walk through stress, uncertainty, and setbacks:...
A Five Minute Reset With Psalm 118
Some mornings feel like a grind before your feet even hit the floor and that’s exactly why we start with one steady line of truth: “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24). We’re taking five minu...
Bad Dad Jokes And Good Dad Guidance
Father’s Day can be pure joy, a knot in your stomach, or somehow both at the same time. I start with something simple and human, a handful of dad jokes, because laughter is often the quickest way back to the people we love. But after the groans...
When You Cannot Understand Loss, You Can Still Love
A single phone call can change the shape of your whole week and sometimes your whole life. After hearing about a friend’s unexpected loss of her son, we slow down and sit with the kind of grief that has no quick fix, especially the pain of losi...
The One Day Challenge
A lot of us want God to change our lives, but we quietly hope He’ll do it without asking us to change our habits. Today I wrestle with that tension in a simple, five-minute reset: God is good, He loves us in our weakness, and He works in our li...
Raising Kids Without Fear
The world our kids and grandkids are growing up in can feel loud, cynical, and openly hostile to faith, and that pressure hits parents where it hurts most. When you’re watching culture shape their values in real time, it’s easy to spiral into f...
Learning From A Third Grader About God
Greatness is not what we think it is, and Jesus makes that crystal clear. When the disciples ask who will be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, He doesn’t reward ambition. He pulls a child close and says the doorway into God’s kingdom looks...
When Plans Break, Purpose Shows Up
Your plan can be solid, your effort can be real, and life can still pull the rug out from under you. Today I tell the story of Jared Wallace, a standout Georgia runner with Olympic dreams who suddenly faces Compartment Syndrome, repeated surger...
The Day He Threw Jewels Into The Ocean
He picked up a bag of dull clay balls and started tossing them into the ocean for fun. Then one slipped, cracked on a rock, and revealed a precious stone inside and suddenly the whole day looked different. That one moment becomes the mirror we ...
The Flea Jar Lesson For Bigger Faith
A tiny insect delivers a big gut-check: what if the thing holding you back isn’t your ability, but a ceiling you learned to accept? We start the morning with a strange but unforgettable flea experiment, where fleas stop jumping high once a lid ...