Back when I was going through the membership class with my hometown church's pastor, one of the things he offered me was the little daily devotional book published by the LCMS, "Portals of Prayer." Each day has two readings (from what I've seen, a New Testament reading and a Psalm) followed by a page-long message and a short prayer.
At first I was hesitant to read the book. Given the chance I would rather dig into deeper theological stuff. Such as reading the Defense of the Augsburg Confession, which I haven't had time to do for a while. However, after a couple weeks school started taking up a huge portion of my time and mental power. Suddenly, reading confessions wasn't so easy. But I wanted to continue getting some kind of dose of theology and Bible. That's where the devotional came in. The whole thing only takes a few minutes to go through. It's nice to have a planned reading for the day as well as a message to go with it. Whether it's had any impact on me isn't clear, but I still like it. It's certainly better than not having any Biblical readings at all.
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