Tag: Holy Spirit
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Day 167: T-Shirts, Bumper Stickers, Waffles, and Pancakes (2 Chronicles 8:11)
Followers of Jesus don’t live compartmentalized lives. There is no sacred and secular divide when the Holy Spirit dwells within us.
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Spiritual Directions (Acts 2:42-47)
Acts 2 gives us spiritual directions for the church: upward in worship, inward in community, outward in generosity, and forward with the gospel. The Spirit-empowered church is not organized around comfort and consumption, but around devotion to God, one another, the hurting, and the mission of Jesus Christ.
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Day 128: “Our Soul Waits” in Psalm 33:20
“Our soul waits for the Lord.” Shouldn’t it say “our souls wait?” But the Psalmist’s strange wording is intentional: a picture of God’s people united with one soul and one heart before the Lord.
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Day 122: Unity That Sanctifies (Psalm 133)
When believers are united in the gospel, we are not just getting along—we are being prepared for the work of God together.
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Day 346: Sanctified Shrewdness (Acts 20-23)
Acts 20–23 offers a surprising portrait of the apostle Paul—one that shows wisdom, discernment, and even shrewdness pressed into kingdom service. Rather than erasing Paul’s past, the Holy Spirit redeems every part of his story for the sake of the gospel.
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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.