Patrick Morley has been writing to men for a long time. Devotions for the Man in the Mirror is the devotional companion to his best-known book, and it carries the same concerns: work, money, marriage, ambition, and the gap between the man other people see and the one you know about.
It is not a daily devotional
This is the correction most worth making. The book is 75 readings, each running two or three pages, across 320 pages. It is not a 365-day book and it is not built around a calendar. An earlier version of this review described “concise daily readings” and implied a page-a-day format. That was wrong.
Seventy-five readings of that length is a different commitment than a one-page morning devotional. Each one is long enough to require actual attention. Some men prefer that. If you want something you can do in three minutes before work, this is not it.
What the readings do
Morley writes from a business background rather than a pastoral one, and it shows in the examples. The recurring themes are the ones that actually take men down: the pull of ambition, the quiet compromises, the temptation to be one man at church and another at work. He is more interested in whether you are honest with yourself than in whether you feel encouraged.
The subtitle on later editions, “75 Readings to Cultivate a Deeper Walk with Christ,” describes the aim accurately.
Which edition to buy
The ISBN historically linked from this page is the 2002 Zondervan edition, 320 pages. Zondervan has issued the book again under later ISBNs, and there is an audiobook edition narrated by Stu Gray. If the 2002 listing shows only used copies when you check, buy a current edition instead. The content is the same book. We have linked both below so you can compare price and availability yourself.
What we removed
An earlier version credited the book with reflection questions and real-life testimonies as built-in features. We could not verify either from the listing or publisher description and have removed the claim. Use the Look Inside preview if the format matters to your plans. That version also quoted reactions from a panel of readers. Those quotes were not real and are gone.
Bottom line
A substantial devotional for men who want to be told the truth about themselves, from a writer who has spent decades doing exactly that. Check which edition is in print before you order.
View the 2002 Zondervan edition on Amazon
View a later Zondervan edition on Amazon