SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 READ: Proverbs 3 (Focus vs. 1-12) MEMORY VERSE “My son . . . keep my commands in your heart.” Proverbs 3:1 BACKGROUND Sophia Roberts witnessed open heart surgery for the first time when she was around eleven
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024 READ: Romans 12 (Focus vs. 1-5) MEMORY VERSE “In Christ we . . . form one body, and each member belongs to all the others..:” Romans 12:5 BACKGROUND Most of the three hundred residents of Whittier, Alaska,
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 READ: Ephesians 2 (Focus vs. 8-13 & 17-22” MEMORY VERSE “You are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people.” Ephesians 2:19 BACKGROUND “You don’t belong here.” Those words crushed an eight-year-old girl’s heart,
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024 READ: Isaiah 45 (Focus vs. 20-25) MEMORY VERSE “Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.” Isaiah 45:23 BACKGROUND With a worldwide audience estimated in the billions, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024 READ: John 16 (Focus vs. 31-33) MEMORY VERSE “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.” John 16:33 BACKGROUND A Facebook memory popped up, showing me a picture of my triumphant
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024 READ: Nahum 1 (Focus vs. 1-8 &15) MEMORY VERSE “The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.” Nahum 1:3 BACKGROUND English Romantic painter John Martin (1789–1854) is
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 READ: PSALM 16 MEMORY VERSE “You will fill me with joy in your presence.” Psalm 16:11 BACKGROUND The pandemic was winning. That’s how it looked to Jason Persoff, an emergency room doctor at a large hospital committed
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024 READ: Isaiah 42 (Focus vs. 1-7) MEMORY VERSE “A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.” Isaiah 42:3 BACKGROUND When I give our beautiful, fluffy Norwegian Forest cat, Mystique,
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024 READ: Romans 11 (Focus vs. 11-21) MEMORY VERSE “You, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others.” Romans 11:17 BACKGROUND During a visit with my father to his beloved Ecuador a few years
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 READ: 1 Peter 2 (Focus vs. 4-10) MEMORY VERSE “You are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple.” 1 Peter 2:5 NLT BACKGROUND We have all sorts of names for groups of animals. No
