Topic:Beat Again Bible in a Year: Job 5–7 Acts 8:1–25 March on, my soul; be strong! Judges 5:21 In 2012, Phillips, Craig and Dean released their song “Tell Your Heart to Beat Again.” It was inspired by the true story of a heart surgeon. After removing a patient’s heart to …
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Topic:Deep-Rooted Faith Bible in a Year: Job 3–4 Acts 7:44–60 The seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. Matthew 13:23 The Holy Oak stood next to Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church in New Jersey for more than six hundred years until it had …
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Topic:Debt Eraser Bible in a Year: Job 1–2 Acts 7:22–43 [Jesus Christ] loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood. Revelation 1:5 Stunned is just one word that describes the response of the crowd at the 2019 graduation ceremony at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. The …
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Topic:Underestimating Ourselves Bible in a Year: Esther 9–10 Acts 7:1–21 Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.” 1 Samuel 15:17 The young man became his team’s captain. The …
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Topic:The Man in Seat 2D Bible in a Year: Esther 3–5 Acts 5:22–42 Be rich in good deeds, and [be] generous and willing to share. 1 Timothy 6:18 Kelsey navigated the narrow airplane aisle with her eleven-month-old daughter, Lucy, and Lucy’s oxygen machine. They were traveling to seek treatment for …
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Topic:Is God There? Bible in a Year: Esther 1–2 Acts 5:1–21 I will wait for the Lord . . . . I will put my trust in him. Isaiah 8:17 Lela was dying of cancer, and her husband, Timothy, couldn’t understand why a loving God would let his wife suffer. …
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Topic:Life to the Full Bible in a Year: Nehemiah 12–13 Acts 4:23–37 I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. I am the good shepherd. John 10:10–11 Seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously wrote that human life in its natural state is “solitary, poor, nasty, …
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Topic:Straight Ahead Bible in a Year: Nehemiah 10–11 Acts 4:1–22 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord . . . , not turning aside to the right or to the left. 2 Kings 22:2 It used to take the steady eye and the firm hand of …
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Topic:Dancing Before the Lord Bible in a Year: Nehemiah 7–9 Acts 3 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume?” Mark 14:4 A number of years ago, my wife and I visited a small church where during the worship service a woman began …
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Topic:How to Rebuild Bible in a Year: Nehemiah 1–3 Acts 2:1–21 They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work. Nehemiah 2:11–18 It was nighttime when the leader set out by horseback to inspect the work that lay ahead. As he toured the destruction all around him, …
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