JULY 7, 2024 READ: Jeremiah 38 (Focus vs. 1-10) MEMORY VERSE “God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him.” Hebrews 6:10 BACKGROUND Two workers at a Mars candy factory in Pennsylvania
JULY 6, 2024 READ: 2 Corinthians 10 (Focus vs. 3-6) MEMORY VERSE “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.” 2 Corinthians 10:4 BACKGROUND Pastor Bailey’s newfound friend shared with him the story of his abuse
JULY 5, 2024 READ: Genesis 32:22-32 MEMORY VERSE “So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.” Genesis 32:24 BACKGROUND A longtime friend sent me a note after my husband’s death: “[Alan] was . . .
JULY 4, 2024 READ: Romans 8 (Focus vs. 12-21) MEMORY VERSE “By [the Spirit] we cry, “Abba, Father.”” Romans 8:15 BACKGROUND Minutes after US President Harry Truman announced the end of World War II, a phone rang in a small
JULY 3, 2024 READ: Psalm 119 (Focus vs. 9-20) MEMORY VERSE “I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.” Psalm 119:16 BACKGROUND I greeted our youth group as my husband and I handed out Bibles. “God will
JULY 2, 2024 READ: Leviticus 23 (Focus vs. 33-43) MEMORY VERSE “Rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.” Leviticus 23:40 BACKGROUND We camped under the stars, with nothing between us and the infinite West African sky. No need
JULY 1, 2024 READ: Ephesians 4 (Focus vs. 11-16) MEMORY VERSE “Speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.” Ephesians 4:15 BACKGROUND “Speaking
JUNE 25, 2024 READ: Ephesians 1:15-23 MEMORY VERSE “I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.” Ephesians 1:16 BACKGROUND They didn’t think Jørn, a tenant farming the land, would amount to much. Yet despite his
JUNE 30, 2024 READ: John 21 (Focus vs. 15-22) MEMORY VERSE “What is that to you? You must follow me.” John 21:22 BACKGROUND “Why do I get a strawberry lollipop when she has grape?” my six-year-old niece asked. My nieces
JUNE 29, 2024 READ: Deuteronomy 33:1-5, 12 MEMORY VERSE “Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him.” Deuteronomy 33:12 BACKGROUND To express her sadness, Allie, a young girl, wrote on a piece of wood and set it in
