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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 313: In Praise of Saint Incognita (Mark 14:9)
Through the Bible: Matthew 26, Mark 14
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Day 313: The Passover Problem, and How a Man With a Water Jar Could Solve It
Why do the Gospel writers seem to disagree about when Jesus celebrated the Passover? The answer may lie with a man carrying a water jar through the streets of Jerusalem—and a calendar that ran one day ahead of the priests’.
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Day 312: Does the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats Teach Works-Righteousness? (Matthew 25:31-46)
When Keith Green thundered, “The only difference between the sheep and the goats is what they did and didn’t do,” he captured the urgency of Jesus’ words in Matthew 25. But was Jesus really teaching salvation by works? This parable doesn’t show how we earn salvation—it shows what saving grace inevitably produces.
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