Category: Reading through the Bible
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Day 267: A Day of Feasting and Gladness (Esther 6-10)
17 This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. 18 But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day…
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Day 266: The Futility of Trying to Fit In (Esther 1-5)
10 Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known. (Esther 2:10) There is no shortage of lessons we can draw from the book of Esther. For a book with so many feasts, it’s only fitting that Esther itself is a feast for those of…
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Day 265: Grace that Draws Us Near (Zechariah 12:10)
10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as…
