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Bible Memory verse
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you have, forgiving as the Lord forgave you. Bearing with people comes before forgiving them. Most church wounds heal at the level of patience. Ephesians 4:2 Proverbs 19:11 1 Peter 4:8 Father, give me patience with the people I find difficult,…
Bible Memory verse
He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. It gives patience with your own slow growth. The finisher is the one who started. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 Hebrews 12:2 Romans 8:30 Father, you began this work and you will finish it. Keep me from quitting…
Bible Memory verse
God's kindness, patience and tolerance are meant to lead us toward repentance, not to be treated with contempt. It reframes God's patience. Delay in judgment is an invitation, not an indication that God has stopped caring. 2 Peter 3:9 Joel 2:13 Luke 13:3-5 Kind Father, your patience is not…
Bible study
A verse-by-verse study of the most beloved psalm in Scripture Psalm 23:1 A Psalm by David. Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. Psalm 23 belongs to the collection of psalms attributed to David, Israel's second…
52 Week Journey
Every believer meets two related but different pressures. One is the trial that comes from outside, the hardship, loss or opposition that tests whether faith will hold. The other is temptation, the pull from within to…
52 Week Journey
Scripture does not promise that faith removes hardship. It promises that faith holds through hardship, and it gives a long list of people who did exactly that: prophets who were sawn in two, a woman who kept gleaning…
Devotional
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. WEB The proverb defines friendship by when it holds, not by how it feels. At all times includes the seasons that cost something: failure,…
Devotional
Psalm 96:13 Let all the trees of the woods sing for joy before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the truth with his peoples. WEB The psalm ends not…
Devotional
Ecclesiastes 3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; WEB The Preacher lists weeping and mourning alongside laughing and dancing, as things that have their proper time under…
Devotional
1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape,…
Daily reading
Read Isaiah 40 in one sitting. Notice that comfort comes first, in verse 1, and the eagles come last. The order is the argument. How much of the chapter is questions God asks rather than statements he makes. The…
Daily reading
Read Hebrews 12 whole. The race in verses 1 and 2 turns into discipline in verses 5 to 11, and the same love is behind both. What is laid aside: weight first, then sin. Not everything that slows you down is wickedness.…
Devotional
1 Corinthians 15:54-55 But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "Death, where is…
Devotional
Matthew 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved. WEB Jesus speaks this in the middle of a warning about false christs, wars, persecution and betrayal that will come before the end. Endurance is not…
Devotional
James 1:13-14 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. WEB…
Devotional
Luke 9:51 It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem. WEB From this verse, Luke's gospel turns and begins moving deliberately toward Jerusalem.…
Devotional
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away. WEB This vision comes…
Devotional
Job 13:15 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. WEB Job says this without any promise of rescue. He does not know how his story ends, and by his own words here he…
Devotional
Jude 1:24 Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy WEB Jude has spent his short letter warning against those who twist grace into…
Devotional
Hebrews 12:2-3 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider…
Devotional
Galatians 6:9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up. WEB Paul writes this after instructing the Galatians to bear one another's burdens and to give to the poor and to…
Devotional
Romans 5:3-4 We also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope. WEB Paul does not say suffering is good in itself. He says…
Devotional
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. WEB Paul writes this near the end of his life, from prison, expecting execution rather than release. He does not measure…
Devotional
James 4:7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. WEB James gives resistance an order. Submission to God comes first; resisting the devil follows from it, not the other way around.…
Devotional
Hebrews 12:1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set…
Devotional
Genesis 18:25 May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do…
Devotional
Numbers 14:18 ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the…
Devotional
Romans 5:3-4 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope. WEB Paul does not say suffering is good…
Devotional
Matthew 4:4 But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" WEB Jesus is led into the wilderness by the Spirit, fasts forty days, and is…
Devotional
James 1:12 Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him. WEB James 1:12 pronounces a blessing on the one who…
Devotional
Psalm 27:14 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh. WEB David does not say wait and feel nothing. He pairs the command with strength and courage, as though he expects waiting…
Devotional
Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. WEB Jesus says this to Peter, James and John after finding them asleep while He prayed in anguish…
Devotional
Matthew 13:29-30 "But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the darnel, you root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the…
Devotional
Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel, and bind it in bundles to burn it; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’” WEB The…
Reading plan day
This psalm was written for the ordinary frustration of watching people who ignore God seem to do just fine. It answers that frustration not with an explanation but with a command: be still, wait, and do not let their…
Reading plan day
This psalm celebrates God's steadfast love and faithfulness as things that will be sung about forever, established as firm as the heavens, rooted in the covenant promises he made to David's line long before Christ…
Reading plan day
The psalmist cries out of the depths and says his soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, and roots that waiting in God's steadfast love and full redemption. It is a psalm written for anyone…
Reading plan day
Good sense makes a person slow to anger, the chapter says, and it is his glory to overlook an offense. Patience here is not passivity, it is treated as a mark of genuine wisdom and strength. Proverbs 19:11 Overlook one…
Reading plan day
The righteous falls seven times and rises again, the chapter says, which means the mark of righteousness is not never failing but always getting back up. It is a promise for anyone tempted to believe that one failure…
Reading plan day
The chapter describes temptation the way it actually works: patient, flattering, and aimed at someone who is not paying attention. The son is told to bind wisdom's words on his heart in advance, because the moment of…
Biblical concept
Jesus says he is the true vine and his followers are branches, and that a branch bears fruit only while it stays joined to the vine. Apart from me you can do nothing is the plainest sentence in the passage. The Old…
Biblical concept
Isaiah turns the whole nation into a vineyard and then tells you what it means: the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant planting (Isaiah 5:7). God planted,…
Christian Living
James 1:3-4 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. WEB james 1 James says patience is produced rather…
Bible question
1 John 5:14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. WEB Before anything is explained, hear God speak about your prayers in his own words. 1 John…
The Sunday Study
Verse-by-verse teaching with historical context, and a prayer to close. Nothing else in the email.