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Day 175: The Clash of Experience and Arrogance (2 Chronicles 10:8)
Rehoboam didn’t ignore wise advice because he lacked options. He ignored it because he preferred affirmation over wisdom. His story is a timeless warning about the danger of surrounding ourselves with people who only tell us what we want to hear.
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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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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 285: Woe to You, Chorazin! (Matthew 11:21)
During a visit to the ruins of Chorazin, one of the cities Jesus cursed, I saw something carved into the stones of an ancient synagogue that made His words come alive. It’s a sobering reminder of how easy it is to let compromise slip into our worship until what was once true becomes only true-ish.
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Day 284: Faith Sometimes Has Its Doubts (Luke 7:18–35)
From Herod’s prison, John the Baptist sent messengers to ask if Jesus was truly the Messiah. His confusion wasn’t rebellion—it was the collision of expectation and revelation. Jesus answered with evidence from Isaiah, revealing a kingdom of mercy before judgment.
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Day 283: What Does Love Require? (Matthew 5:21–48)
Jesus didn’t lower the bar; He raised it. The Sermon on the Mount moves righteousness from something you can measure to something only love can motivate.











