Exegesis Daily
By Reuben Smith
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Daily scripture, rigorously read. One passage per day — the Greek, the Hebrew, the context, the cut. For deep-knowledge believers who want to be challenged, not comforted.
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The Groaning World: Creation's Stake in Your Resurrection — Romans 8:19-21
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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The First Word from the Cross: Forgiveness as Theological Earthquake — Luke 23:34
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Sep 07, 2026 |
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The Displacement That Wasn't: How Grace and Truth Arrived Without Erasing Moses — John 1:17
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Sep 06, 2026 |
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One Mediator: The Verse That Demolishes Every Human Broker of Divine Access — 1 Timothy 2:5
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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The Spirit You Were Given Is Not Compatible with Cowardice — 2 Timothy 1:7
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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Cursed Is Everyone: The Exchange That Abolished the Law's Death Sentence — Galatians 3:13-14
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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The Only God Standing in the Courtroom of History — Isaiah 44:6
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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The Bridegroom Sun: When Creation's Wordless Sermon Becomes a Wedding March — Psalm 19:4-6
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Jabez's Prayer: A Desperate Cry Embedded in a Death Register — 1 Chronicles 4:10
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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The Siege Engine of Truth: Paul's War Against Fortified Lies — 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
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Aug 30, 2026 |
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Seven Ones: The Architecture of Unity That Leaves No Room for Your Version of Church — Ephesians 4:4-6
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Mutual Surrender: The Radical Economics of Marital Bodies — 1 Corinthians 7:3-4
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Aug 28, 2026 |
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The Son's Final Request: Beholding Glory Before the Foundation of the World — John 17:24
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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The Covenant That Replaces Obedience with Ontology — Jeremiah 31:31-33
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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The Messenger Who Burns the House Down — Malachi 3:1
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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The Measure You Use: How Generosity Toward Enemies Inverts the Moral Economy — Luke 6:38
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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The Preemptive Strike Against National Self-Righteousness — Deuteronomy 9:4-5
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Aug 23, 2026 |
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The Earth Is Not Yours: Psalm 24's Ownership Claim That Abolishes Every Human Sovereignty — Psalm 24:1-2
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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The Cry of Dereliction: God Forsaken by God — Matthew 27:46
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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The Thief and the Shepherd: What 'Abundant Life' Was Never About — John 10:10
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Grafted Into Death, Grafted Into Resurrection — Romans 6:5
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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The Theology of the Unharvested Edge: Why God Commands Inefficiency — Leviticus 19:9-10
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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You Are the Temple Now: The End of Sacred Space and the Birth of a Living Architecture — Ephesians 2:19-22
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Healing the Unhealable City: God's Restoration of What He Himself Destroyed — Jeremiah 33:6
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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The Pedagogy of Hunger: How God Used Starvation to Teach Israel What Sustains — Deuteronomy 8:2-3
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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The Aaronic Blessing: God Putting His Name on a People Who Cannot Keep Themselves — Numbers 6:24-26
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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The Lethal Amnesia of Prosperity: How Full Stomachs Produce Forgetful Theologians — Deuteronomy 8:17-18
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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Caught Up Together: The Reunion Paul's Grieving Church Needed — 1 Thessalonians 4:17
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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The Peace That Doesn't Work Like You Think It Does — John 14:27
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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The Stronghold That Relocates: God as Fortress for Those the World Has Crushed — Isaiah 25:4
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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The God Who Cannot Leave: Why Your Contentment Has Nothing to Do with Money — Hebrews 13:5-6
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Aug 09, 2026 |
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Grief With a Floor: Paul's Theology of Death That Refuses to Let Hope Collapse into Denial — 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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No One Can Serve Two Masters: The Impossible Economics of Divided Loyalty — Matthew 6:24
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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In Him We Live and Move and Exist: Paul's Pagan Poets and the God Who Cannot Be Escaped — Acts 17:28
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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The Feast That Swallows Death — Isaiah 25:6-8
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Naked Theology: Job's First Response and the God Who Owns Everything — Job 1:21
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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The River and the Tree: Eden's Architecture Rebuilt Without the Serpent — Revelation 22:1-2
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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The Fortress Vocabulary of a Man Who Nearly Died — Psalm 18:2
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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The Verse That Built Empires and Silenced Prophets — Romans 13:1
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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The Strange Logic of Fiery Joy — 1 Peter 4:12-13
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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The City Without a Temple: When God's Presence Makes Sacred Space Obsolete — Revelation 21:22-23
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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The Wound Display: Jesus Commands Thomas to Touch What Should Not Exist — John 20:27
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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The Delayed Answer: When Heaven's Response Gets Intercepted — Daniel 10:12-13
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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The First Clear Promise of Bodily Resurrection — and the Division It Demands — Daniel 12:2-3
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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Shut Your Mouth Before God: Qoheleth's Assault on Pious Verbosity — Ecclesiastes 5:2
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Jul 26, 2026 |
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The Verdict Reversed: God's Demand That Israel Stop Dying — Ezekiel 18:30-31
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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The Advocate You Didn't Know You Needed — And the One You Already Have — 1 John 2:1
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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The Baptist's Crisis: When the Forerunner Doubts the One He Announced — Luke 7:19-20
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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The God Who Draws Near to Wreckage — Psalm 34:17-18
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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The Priest Who Cannot Be Replaced — Hebrews 7:24-25
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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I AM the Light of the World: A Claim That Forces a Verdict in the Temple Treasury — John 8:12
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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Abiding in a Love That Was Never Yours to Earn — John 15:9
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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The God Who Vetoes Nations and Chooses a People — Psalm 33:10-12
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Reconciliation Completed, Boasting Begun: The Logic That Destroys Religious Anxiety — Romans 5:10-11
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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The Master on His Knees: Jesus Redefines Authority by Washing Feet — John 13:14-15
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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Paradise Promised to a Dying Criminal: The Most Dangerous Salvation in Scripture — Luke 23:43
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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The Spirit You Did Not Receive: Slavery, Sonship, and the Cry That Proves It — Romans 8:15
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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The Final Word of the Psalter: Every Breathing Thing Commanded to Praise — Psalm 150:6
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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The Covenant That Binds God: What It Means When the Eternal One Says 'Between Me and You' — Genesis 17:7
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Jul 12, 2026 |
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The Holiness Without Which No One Will See God — Hebrews 12:14
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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The Voice Behind You: Divine Guidance as Covenant Correction, Not Inner Prompting — Isaiah 30:21
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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The Soul That Consumes Itself for God's Presence — Psalm 84:1-2
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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The Great Exchange: Made Sin, Made Righteousness — 2 Corinthians 5:21
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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The Work Command: Paul's Apostolic Rule That Destroys Both Laziness and Workaholism — 2 Thessalonians 3:10
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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The Greater One: Why Your Victory Was Decided Before Your Battle Started — 1 John 4:4
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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Refined But Not as Silver: The Furnace That Doesn't Purify—It Proves — Isaiah 48:10
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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The Only God Who Saves: A Doxology That Swallows All Rivals — Jude 1:25
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Mountains Will Move Before I Do — Isaiah 54:10
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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The Authority You Already Have: Jesus's Declaration of Delegated Dominion Over Enemy Power — Luke 10:19
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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The Generous Eye: How You See Determines What You Give — Proverbs 22:9
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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The Singing That Outlasts the Singer: Creation's Demand for Perpetual Praise — Psalm 104:31-33
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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The King Whose Borders Are Not Borders — Psalm 72:8-11
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Paul's Prayer for Moral Intelligence: Love That Knows What to Do — Philippians 1:9-11
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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The Table That Breaks Every Border: Gentiles Reclining with Abraham — Matthew 8:11
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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The Betrothal That Unmakes Every Contract — Hosea 2:19-20
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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The Father's Pleasure in Crushing: How Divine Satisfaction and Substitutionary Death Become the Engine of Justification — Isaiah 53:10-11
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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The Heart Transplant You Cannot Perform on Yourself — Ezekiel 36:26-27
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Create in Me a Clean Heart: The Prayer That Admits You Cannot Fix Yourself — Psalm 51:10
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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The Earth Filled with Glory: A King's Prayer That Outgrows Every King — Psalm 72:19
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Unbound on the Sabbath: Jesus Dismantles the Religion That Binds What God Would Free — Luke 13:10-12
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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The Impossible Ethic: Preferring Others in a World That Rewards Self-Promotion — Romans 12:10
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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The Mind Set on the Flesh Is Already Dead — Paul's Binary That Destroys the Middle Ground — Romans 8:5-6
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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The Decree That Crowns a King and Breaks Nations — Psalm 2:7-9
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Love Your Enemies: The Command That Exposes What You Think God Is Like — Matthew 5:43-45
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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The Freedom You Don't Want: Jesus' Conditional Promise to Believers Who Are About to Pick Up Stones — John 8:31-32
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Walking in Darkness Without a Self-Made Torch — Isaiah 50:10
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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The Rich Are Not Told to Stop Being Rich — They Are Told to Stop Being Dead — 1 Timothy 6:17-19
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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The New Heavens and New Earth: Creation Remade at the Root — Isaiah 65:17
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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The Covenant Ultimatum: Choose Life or Die Standing in the Promised Land — Deuteronomy 30:19-20
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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The Elders, the Oil, and the Prayer: What James Prescribes Is Not What You Think — James 5:14-15
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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The Other Paraclete: Jesus Promises a Permanent Replacement for His Physical Presence — John 14:16-17
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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The Smelted Word: Why Agur's Confession of Ignorance Is the Ground of Scripture's Reliability — Proverbs 30:5
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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The End of Sacred Geography — John 4:21-23
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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The Angel's Announcement: Fear Replaced by a Name That Rewrites History — Luke 1:30-31
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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Enriched for Generosity, Not Accumulation: The Economy Paul Describes and the One We Prefer — 2 Corinthians 9:11
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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The Custodian Dismissed: Why the Law's Job Was Always Temporary — Galatians 3:24-25
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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The Judgment Seat That Ends All Other Courtrooms — Romans 14:10-12
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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The Fullness of Joy That Destroys the Pleasure Economy — Psalm 16:11
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Righteous in All His Ways: The Claim That Breaks Every Theodicy Shortcut — Psalm 145:17
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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The King's Mother Commands: Open Your Mouth for Those Who Cannot Open Theirs — Proverbs 31:8-9
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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The Cup He Did Not Refuse: Jesus' Prayer as the Hinge of Human History — Luke 22:42
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May 31, 2026 |
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The Name as Fortress: What It Means to Run Into God's Identity — Proverbs 18:10
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May 30, 2026 |
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The Angel in the Cell: Divine Invasion of Rome's Death Chamber — Acts 12:7
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May 29, 2026 |
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I Shall See God in My Flesh: Job's Defiant Claim to Bodily Resurrection — Job 19:26-27
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May 28, 2026 |
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The Ethnicity of Anxiety: How Worry Marks You as a Pagan — Matthew 6:31-32
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May 27, 2026 |
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Engraved on God's Palms: The Mother-Love That Cannot Forget — Isaiah 49:15-16
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May 26, 2026 |
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Iron Sharpens Iron: The Violent Intimacy of Real Formation — Proverbs 27:17
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May 25, 2026 |
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Christ the Telos of the Law: The Word That Redefines Everything Israel Pursued — Romans 10:4
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May 24, 2026 |
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The Weight of Eternal Ruin: Destruction as Exclusion from Glory — 2 Thessalonians 1:9-10
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May 23, 2026 |
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The Spirit's Testimony and the Inheritance That Requires Suffering — Romans 8:16-17
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May 22, 2026 |
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The Ruler from Bethlehem Whose Origins Are from Eternity — Micah 5:2
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May 21, 2026 |
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The God Who Comforts You Didn't Do It for You — 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
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May 20, 2026 |
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Through the Waters: God's Presence as Covenant Guarantee, Not Emotional Comfort — Isaiah 43:2
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May 19, 2026 |
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The Indictment Disguised as an Answer: What God Actually Requires When Religion Fails — Micah 6:8
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May 18, 2026 |
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The Four-Fold Impossibility of Condemnation — Romans 8:34
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May 17, 2026 |
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The Grace That Trains: How Divine Favor Became a Drill Instructor — Titus 2:11-12
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May 16, 2026 |
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Bearing With and Forgiving: The Shape of Christ's Forgiveness Imposed on Human Relationships — Colossians 3:13
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May 15, 2026 |
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Silver and Gold Have I None: The Economy of the Kingdom Confronts the Economy of the Temple — Acts 3:6
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May 14, 2026 |
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Released from the Law: The Death Certificate That Changed the Marriage — Romans 7:6
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May 13, 2026 |
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The Descent, the Shout, and the Caught-Up: What Paul Actually Promised Grieving Believers About the Dead in Christ — 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
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May 12, 2026 |
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Train Up a Child: The Proverb That Isn't a Promise — Proverbs 22:6
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May 11, 2026 |
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The Shape of the First Church: Devotion as Structural Architecture, Not Spiritual Mood — Acts 2:42-44
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May 10, 2026 |
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Submit to Every Human Institution: The Scandal of Christian Freedom Expressed as Voluntary Subordination — 1 Peter 2:13-14
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May 09, 2026 |
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The Ends of the Earth Will Remember: A Suffering Servant's Psalm Explodes Into Universal Sovereignty — Psalm 22:27-28
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May 08, 2026 |
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The Inversion Principle: How God's Kingdom Reverses Every Status Claim You've Built — Luke 14:11
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May 07, 2026 |
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The Divine Courtroom Indictment: God Commands Justice for the Vulnerable — Psalm 82:3-4
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May 06, 2026 |
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Dead and Alive Again: The Father's Verdict That Destroys Merit-Based Belonging — Luke 15:24
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May 05, 2026 |
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The Ransom Saying: Jesus Redefines Greatness Before the Cross — Matthew 20:28
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May 04, 2026 |
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The Arithmetic of Anxiety — Luke 12:25-26
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May 03, 2026 |
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The Country They Were Looking For — Hebrews 11:16
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May 02, 2026 |
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Strengthen the Weak Hands: A Command Issued Before the Rescue Arrives — Isaiah 35:3-4
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May 01, 2026 |
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Call and I Will Answer — Jeremiah 33:3
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Ask, Seek, Knock — Matthew 7:7-8
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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The Prayer of the Righteous — James 5:16
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Rejoice Always — 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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The Lord's Prayer — Matthew 6:9-13
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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On These Two — Matthew 22:37-40
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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A New Commandment — John 13:34-35
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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The Anatomy of Love — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Steadfast Love Endures — Psalm 136:1
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Nothing Can Separate — Romans 8:38-39
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Propitiation for Our Sins — 1 John 4:9-10
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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A Future and a Hope — Jeremiah 29:11
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Perfect Peace — Isaiah 26:3-4
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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A Very Present Help — Psalm 46:1-3
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Lean Not on Your Own — Proverbs 3:5-6
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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From Faith to Faith — Romans 1:17
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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The Faith That Draws Near — Hebrews 11:6
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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The Assurance of Things — Hebrews 11:1
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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While We Were Still — Romans 5:8
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Pierced for Transgressions — Isaiah 53:5-6
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Of First Importance — 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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The Old Has Passed — 2 Corinthians 5:17
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Confession and Belief — Romans 10:9-10
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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The Syntax of Grace — Ephesians 2:8-9
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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The Gift Inside the Verdict — Romans 3:23-24
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Love That Condemns Nothing — John 3:16-17
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Grace in Weakness — 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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A Living Sacrifice — Romans 12:1-2
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Peace Under Custody — Philippians 4:6-7
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Strength to Endure — Philippians 4:13
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Apr 01, 2026 |