Category: Reading through the Bible
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Day 338: Comfort Food (2 Corinthians 1:3-7)
On a gray, comfort-food kind of day, Paul reminds us that God is the One who comes alongside us in our affliction—and His comfort is meant to be shared.
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Day 337: Opposition and Opportunity (1 Corinthians 16:9)
When God opens a door, adversaries often walk through it too. Paul reminds us that opportunity and opposition usually share an address—and resisting the resistance is part of faithful ministry.
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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: 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 328: How to Read Galatians
Galatians isn’t a polite theological essay—it’s a pastoral emergency. Paul writes with fire in his pen because the churches he planted are trading grace for performance. This guide will help you read Galatians the way it was meant to be read: urgent, focused, and anchored in the freedom Christ has won for us.
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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.