Tag: Grace
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Day 118: The Mechanic of the Heart (Psalm 88)
Through the Bible Reading: Psalm 81, 88, 92, 93
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Day 034: Redeeming the Unclean (Exodus 13:13)
God’s command to redeem the firstborn revealed a surprising problem: what do you do with an unclean animal like a donkey? The answer was substitution. A clean lamb could take its place—or the donkey would die. It’s a vivid picture of the gospel: even when our lives look “useful” or “good,” our very nature falls…
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Day 018: Seeing the God Who Sees You (Genesis 16-18)
Hagar—an Egyptian slave, an outcast, a single mother—does something no one else in Scripture dares to do: she names God. She calls Him El-Roi, the God who sees her. And in that naming, we discover a God who not only sees the unseen, but who welcomes being known by them.
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Day 304: Son of Trash, Son of Treasure (Mark 10:46-51)
Bartimaeus means “son of Timaeus,” a name that could suggest either honor or uncleanness—“son of treasure” or “son of trash.” The crowd saw a nuisance by the roadside. Jesus saw a man worth stopping for. He still does.
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Day 300: What Does “Prodigal” Actually Mean? (Luke 15)
We call him the “prodigal son,” but that word never appears in the story. “Prodigal” doesn’t mean “wayward”—it means “recklessly extravagant.” And that makes the real prodigal in this story not the son, but the Father.
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Day 284: How Many Times Did a Woman Anoint Jesus? (Luke 7:36-50)
All four Gospels record a woman anointing Jesus with costly perfume. Are they describing the same event, or more than one? This reflection traces the differences between Luke’s “woman of the city,” Mary of Bethany, and the unnamed woman in Matthew and Mark—and what their stories reveal about grace that multiplies.