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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 146: Nap Time (Psalm 131)
On the anniversary of my mom’s homegoing, this one hit hard today. There is a deep rest that comes from trusting God like a child at nap time—safe, held, and free from the weight of the world.
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Day 146: King James, The Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Case of the Missing Couplet (Psalm 145)
Did modern Bible translations “add” a missing verse to Psalm 145? Not exactly.
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Day 144: I am Prayer (Psalm 109:4)
People ask all the time, “How are you?” Usually we answer with emotions, circumstances, or clichés: “Fine.” “Busy.” “Tired.” But in Psalm 109:4, David answers differently. In Hebrew, he literally says, “I am prayer.”
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Day 141: Gentleness that Makes Me Great (2 Samuel 22:36)
Buried in the middle of all the military imagery of 2 Samuel 22 is a surprising turn: God’s gentleness made David great. God does not shape us through cruelty or intimidation, but through steadfast love, mercy, and kindness.
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Day 140: Going Deep (Psalm 42)
Deep calls to deep: when our deepest need is answered by God’s deepest grace.
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Day 145: An Inherited Occupation (1 Chronicles 23:28-32)
In a world obsessed with self-expression and personal fulfillment, the Levites remind us that calling is not always something we choose. Sometimes it is something we inherit.
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Day 318: Anticlimactic (Mark 16:8)
Mark’s Gospel ends with the women running away in fear—and then… nothing. No appearance of the risen Jesus, no reunion, no Great Commission. Just silence. But the most anticlimactic ending in Scripture might be the most intentional. Mark leaves the story unfinished so the reader will step into it.
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Day 317: Jesus or Barabbas? (John 18:40)
Pilate offered Israel a choice between two sons: Barabbas, the violent son of a human father, and Jesus, the suffering Son of the Heavenly Father. The crowd chose Barabbas—and we’ve been choosing him ever since.
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Day 316: Two that Got it Right (Mark 15:39)
“And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God!’” — Mark 15:39 Through the Bible: Matthew 27, Mark 15 No one likes feeling like an outsider. Maybe you remember the first time you showed up as an…
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