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Day 335: Run Like It Matters (1 Corinthians 9:24-27)
Paul compares the Christian life to a race where the prize actually lasts. Ancient athletes trained for a crown of celery—literally what we feed guinea pigs—while we run for an eternal reward. Don’t drift or shadowbox your faith. Run like it matters.
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Day 334: Christians, Christmas, and Corinth (1 Corinthians 8:1-4)
s a Christmas tree a harmless tradition, a redeemed symbol, or a leftover from pagan history? Paul’s counsel to the Corinthians offers surprising clarity. The issue isn’t the origin of the tree—it’s the posture of the heart. Christian freedom, guided by love, helps us keep Christ at the center of the season.
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Day 330: John and Paul, the Beast, and the Man of Lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:7-9)
Paul and John describe the same enemy in different voices—Paul with pastoral clarity, John with apocalyptic imagery. Together they reveal a recurring pattern of deception already at work in the world and point us to the same hope: Christ will expose evil and overcome it with a word.
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Day 330: What to Make of Mars Hill? (Acts 17:18-34)
Paul’s sermon on Mars Hill is often celebrated as a master class in cultural engagement. Yet the results in Athens were modest, and Paul’s own later reflections suggest he learned something there about the limits of brilliance and the surpassing power of Christ crucified. Acts 17 reminds us that contextualization matters—but only Jesus saves.
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Day 327: A Gentile, a Slave, and a Woman Walk into a Church… (Acts 16)
Paul grew up praying a Jewish blessing thanking God he’s not a Gentile, slave, or woman—then the Spirit sends him to Philippi to meet exactly those three. God has a sense of humor.
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Day 326: The “Show Me” Epistle (James 2:18)
James isn’t asking how to become a believer, but how to act like one. In this “Show Me” epistle, real faith is visible—shaped, strengthened, and seen.