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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The Handbook
Bad advice can sound confident, especially when you’re tired, stressed, and just trying to make it through the day. I open with James 1:17, a grounding reminder that every gift God freely gives is good and perfect, then I point to the Bible as ...
What Happens When You Forget Your Miracles
A stopped river is impressive. The part that can change your daily life is what God asks for next. I start with a quick pop quiz about Scripture, then walk straight into Joshua’s crossing of the Jordan River, when the priests step into flood-st...
Friendship So Bold It Needed Repairs
Some friendships are loud when everything is fun, then quiet when things get messy. We start today with a gut-check definition that cuts through the noise: a real friend walks in when everybody else walks out. If you’ve ever felt abandoned in a...
Church Music Without The Divide
New songs in church can feel like someone moved the furniture in your own living room. One week the hymns you know by heart carry you, the next week a fresh chorus shows up and you are not sure what to do with it. We get it and we take five min...
I Trust in God
Some mornings, you don’t need a long lecture. You need one steady truth that can hold your thoughts together. Today we lean into a simple, powerful theme: trusting God when your path feels uncertain and your heart wants to grab the steering whe...
The Little Red Book
In 1992 Harvey Pennick wrote The Little Red Book, which became the best-selling sports book of all time. At first he thought this collection of advice about golf would be fun to hand down to his children, but then a publisher offered him ...
What Does It Mean To Say "It Is Well"
A single line can carry a whole ocean of grief: “Saved alone. What shall I do?” Danny Mac shares the true story of Horatio Gates Spafford, a successful Chicago lawyer whose life was first shaken by the Great Chicago Fire and then shattered by a...
When Paul Puts Her Name First
A woman plants churches with Paul, teaches a rising leader, and gets her name placed first in a way that would have raised eyebrows in the first century. That’s Priscilla and her story is a timely jolt for anyone who feels overlooked, underqual...
Costly Worship
One moment at a dinner table in Bethany turns into a lesson on worship that still confronts us today. We talk through Mary of Bethany taking an alabaster jar of rare, costly nard and anointing Jesus’ feet, then wiping them with her hair as the ...
Taking Back What The Enemy Stole
Some mornings feel like you’re waking up to a life you didn’t choose, where joy got taken piece by piece and you’re left trying to figure out what’s even yours to hope for. We keep it simple and honest today: God is a God of restoration, and wh...
Cain’s Slide Into Disaster
Jealousy doesn’t usually announce itself. It slips in as a quiet complaint, a small grudge, or that sinking feeling when someone else gets what we wanted. Today I walk through Cain’s story in Genesis 4 not to gawk at a “bad guy,” but to trace t...
Becoming A Person Of Valor
God calls Gideon a “mighty man of valor” at the exact moment Gideon looks anything but mighty and that tension is where real growth begins. If you’ve ever felt like you’re hiding, behind, or disqualified, this short Christian devotional hits st...
The Satisfaction Gap
The world has changed faster than most of us can even name. A scientist recently made a bold claim: the technological advances since 2000 may surpass everything developed in the 100 years before it. That is an incredible thought, and it should ...
When Your Fastest Run Is A No
A single line from Scripture can rearrange your priorities: “Train yourself to be godly.” We take 1 Timothy 4:7-8 out of the abstract and into real life, where godliness is not just what we know but how we live, choose, and respond under pressu...
Why Real Change Starts With The Spirit Within You
One little question can mess with your whole Monday in the best way: If you could change one thing about yourself with no limits, what would it be? I take that question head-on, because most of us already know what we want to fix, but we keep g...
When God Seems Silent
Some mornings, the hardest prayer to say is the simplest one: “Lord, how long?” When the world feels loud with violence, unfairness, and nonstop bad news, God can seem strangely quiet. I walk through Habakkuk, one of the most honest books in th...
Listening To Truth Is Not The Same As Living It
Knowing the Bible isn’t the same as obeying it, and that gap might be the biggest threat to our faith right now. Today I’m sharing a five-minute challenge that cuts through spiritual noise: Christian life is action. Not speculation. Not debatin...
Steps That Break A Democracy
A listener forwarded me a short piece called “Opinion from a Judge,” and it grabbed my attention for one simple reason: it sounded like the kind of story that spreads fast whether it’s true or not. So I did what I wish all of us would do more o...
What the World Needs Right Now
Love is one of the most overused words in our culture and one of the least practiced when things get tense. Today we start with a surprising connection: a 1965 hit written at the height of the Vietnam War, “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” an...
God’s Names For Hard Mornings
Some mornings don’t need more noise, they need one clear truth you can carry. Today we build that truth around a worship classic that’s helped me more times than I can count: Vicky Yohe’s “Because of Who You Are.” It’s a five-minute start to yo...
Rodeo Tricks For Your Brain At Bedtime
Your body is tired, you put the book down, and the second your head hits the pillow your brain hits the gas pedal. If you know that whiplash from sleepy to wide awake, you’re not alone, and it’s more than annoying. A racing mind at night can tu...
What If Flexibility Is A Spiritual Discipline
A closed highway can reveal what we really worship: comfort, control, or trust. After a Sunday that starts with joy at church, a simple drive home turns into a five-hour detour caused by nearby forest fires and massive traffic backups. By the t...
Big Rocks First
Your life can feel completely full and still be missing what matters most. Today I share a quick story from a high school classroom that has stuck with me for years: a teacher, a glass jar, and a lesson that exposes how easily we let small dist...
God is Good
Some mornings hit hard before you even finish your coffee. If you’ve been wondering how to reconcile a good God with a painful week, this one is for you. We open Monday with a steady reminder and a singable worship hook from Austin French’s “Go...
Nothing Too Hard For God
Some mornings, the hardest part is not the problem itself, it’s the quiet thought that God won’t show up for you. Maybe you’ve prayed before and nothing changed. Maybe you feel disqualified by your past, worn down by stress, or convinced you wa...