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Day 173: More Agur, Please
Most of us spend our lives trying to convince people we’re smarter than we are. Agur begins Proverbs 30 by telling us how little he knows—and that’s exactly why I trust him.
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3 John: The Man You Want to Be (Father’s Day, 2026)
Everyone’s becoming someone. In 3 John, we meet four very different men—one who walked in the truth, one who put himself first, one who earned respect, and one whose greatest joy was seeing others follow Jesus. Which one are you becoming?
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Day 173: Women of Valor (Proverbs 31:10)
Does the Proverbs 31 woman inspire you—or exhaust you? What if this famous passage was never intended as a checklist for women at all, but something else entirely? Today, we take a fresh look at the Bible’s “woman of valor.”
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Day 172: Wives and Concubines (1 Kings 11:3)
Solomon’s 700 wives weren’t merely a moral failure. They were 700 attempts to find security somewhere besides God. The question isn’t whether we have foreign wives—it’s what little kingdoms have captured our hearts.
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More Reflections on Ecclesiastes: For the Classic Rock Fan
What do Solomon and Pink Floyd have in common? More than you might think. Read Ecclesiastes with Dark Side of the Moon playing in the background, and you may discover the closest thing classic rock ever produced to “Ecclesiastes: The Musical.”
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Day 170: Living Under the Sun (Ecclesiastes 1:3-5)
Ecclesiastes asks one of the most uncomfortable questions in the Bible: What if everything we chase is ultimately meaningless? The Teacher’s answer begins with understanding what life “under the sun” means.
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Day 168: Six Things “Heaping Burning Coals” Could Mean (Proverbs 25:21-22)
What does it mean to “heap burning coals” on your enemy’s head? The answer may not be as obvious as you’ve been told—but the command is.
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Day 167: T-Shirts, Bumper Stickers, Waffles, and Pancakes (2 Chronicles 8:11)
Followers of Jesus don’t live compartmentalized lives. There is no sacred and secular divide when the Holy Spirit dwells within us.
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Day 166: Praying the Psalms: Psalm 149
Why is Psalm 149 so joyful? Because God takes delight in His people. There is a time for repentance and tears—but this is not that day. Today is a head-banging Hallelujah.
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Day 152: How to Pray for Your Children (Psalm 72)
If you knew you were nearing the end of your life and you had one last chance to pray over your child, what would you ask God for?
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Day 112: Here and Now, Not There and Then (Psalm 16:5-11)
Are you depending on what’s next for your happiness?
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Today in Christian History: May 12
On this date in 1963, AW Tozer died. Tozer, born in 1897, was a pastor in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, a man with no formal theological training, yet one of the most-read pastors of the past century. Tozer was a man of simple lifestyle, and though he gained fame from his writings, he and…
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Who Is Jesus? Session 7: The God Claim (Part 1)
Here are the notes for Session 7 of Focus on the Family’s Who Is Jesus? study. Who Is Jesus? Session 6: The Resurrection Q1: If Jesus is God, then everything begins to make sense. Q2: If Jesus is really God, then the consequences are huge. Twenty years later, when you ask someone on the street “Who is David Koresh?”…
66 in 52: A One Year Chronological Journey Through the Bible
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