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Right or Almost Right?
A Daily Training for Renewing the Mind & Discerning the Seasons of the Kingdom

A 52-week Christian devotional for renewing the mind
Right or Almost Right? is a 52-week Christian devotional built around a demanding question: can we recognize the difference between a faithful response and one that merely sounds spiritual? The book treats discernment as a capacity developed through repeated practice. Its 260 readings offer five days of training each week, with space to rest, catch up, reflect, and discuss what is being learned with other people.
After an orientation week, the devotional follows the nine seasons of the Kingdom of God. It considers refinement, repentance, revival, reformation, recalculation, revolution, release, reward, and repeat through the decisions believers face in daily life. The weekly subjects include diagnosing a storm, permission to have a process, becoming hungry for God's presence, discerning deceptive teaching, forgiveness, stewardship, and spiritual fatherhood. Renewing the mind connects these subjects: readers are invited to examine the assumptions shaping their choices.
Each day includes Scripture, a short reading, a comparison between an almost-right response and a right response, a memorable proverb, and a question and prayer for the road. Stories and movie scenes serve as illustrations to be tested against the Bible. The book explains that a film does not carry scriptural authority and that every detail does not need a spiritual interpretation. The purpose is to recognize a biblical pattern and respond faithfully when it appears in real life.
Weekly Together pages make this discernment devotional suitable for conversation with a spouse, a friend, or a small group. The Boy Who Pushes the Plow encourages readers to search Scripture and test the teaching rather than simply accept the author's conclusions. The complete free PDF is available to read or download without an email address, allowing readers to begin the year of study at their own pace.
Weekly readings
- Right or Almost Right
- A Reason for Your Season
- The Refiner's Fire
- The Crushing
- Diagnosing the Storm
- Permission to Have a Process
- Refined Among People
- When God Becomes the Treasure
- Repentance Is a Change of Mind
- Seeing Sin the Way God Sees It
- The Lies We Tell Ourselves
- Fruit in Keeping with Repentance
- Orphans No More
- From Fear to First Love
- Revival Starts in the Mirror
- Hungry for His Face
- The Secret Place
- Stirred, Not Settled
- The Cost of the Outpouring
- The Baby Called Reformation
- No Permission Slip
- Audience or Army
- A Family, Not an Empire
- Another Gospel
- Discernment Famine
- Truth That Sounds Like Jesus
- The Eleven-Day Trip That Took Forty Years
- When the Present Doesn't Match the Promise
- The Stable, Not the Stage
- Did We Learn to Love?
- Grace With a Spine
- Two Kings, One Throne
- Back on the Route
- Driven by What?
- Build an Ark, Not a Tower
- Run to Win
- Eternity in the Pain
- Marked for the King
- The Disturbed Nest
- Release the Debt, Guard the Heart
- Root, Branch and Leaf
- Open Hands
- The Anointing Is Not the Approval
- Power vs. Permission
- The Descent After the Summit
- The Money Test
- Crown Without the Cross
- Leaders Talk, Fathers Walk
- The Courage to Correct
- Sons Before Fathers
- The Home Is the First Pulpit
- A Generation You Will Not See
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