Taking a Break & Making a Change

Hope Your Holidays are Grand!

Thank you for being a subscriber to The Holy Lens! I appreciate your comments and following along with the devotions through the Gospel of John. I’ll begin preaching through John’s Gospel at the end of December and through Easter.

A BOOK

I plan that these devotionals through John will be gathered together in a book called SEVEN SIGNS, SEVEN DAYS: A Devotional Companion for John’s Gospel. I’m sure I will post something here when that happens!

A CHANGE

To help condense what I do on Substack, the posts normally appearing on The Holy Lens will now appear at Hope Remains. I am weary of maintaining four substacks, and this will break it down to three. I will not delete this Substack, there are so many wonderful posts by so many wonderful writers - I just can’t delete it! Of course, you could enjoy them all in the book we wrote together, A Holy Lens: 101 Prayers Focused on God’s Word.

I’m sure some will unsubscribe from both newsletters, and that’s ok. Watch at Hope Remains for weekday devotional posts to begin the first Monday in January. I think most of you are subscribed there, but if not, here’s your chance!

MY HOPE

I hope your holidays have many bright moments of joy and grace. Everyone who writes a Substack newsletter hopes that someone will read it. If you’re reading this now, you are making this writer very happy.

2026 is upon us! I have a new series starting on January 5th! Until then, may His grace surround you, uphold you, and strengthen you for the challenges of every day.

God Bless,

John