Tag: spiritual discernment
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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 330: John and Paul, the Beast, and the Man of Lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:7-9)
Paul and John describe the same enemy in different voices—Paul with pastoral clarity, John with apocalyptic imagery. Together they reveal a recurring pattern of deception already at work in the world and point us to the same hope: Christ will expose evil and overcome it with a word.
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Day 261: Red Flags at the Rebuild (Ezra 4:1–2)
When adversaries offered to “help” rebuild the temple in Ezra 4, Zerubbabel saw the red flags and said no. Their sacrifices looked sincere, but their hearts weren’t loyal to God alone—a warning for us about false worship, compromise, and true covenant faith.