Category: Today’s Reading
1 Corinthians 13:13
Paul had just spent twelve verses describing what love is and is not. This sentence is where he lands: love is the greatest of the things that last.
Read MoreProverbs 16:9
Planning is assumed. So is divine sovereignty. The verse holds both without collapsing either.
Read MorePsalm 91:1-2
The psalm begins with a condition: dwell. You do not stumble accidentally into the shelter of the Most High. You choose to stay there.
Read MoreRevelation 3:20
This verse is usually treated as an evangelism text. It was originally written to a church, to people who already believed but had left Jesus on the outside.
Read More1 John 4:18
John was not describing the absence of fear as a personality trait. He was describing what happens to fear when it encounters the fullness of God's love.
Read MoreJohn 1:14
The eternal Word of God did not send a message. He became a body and moved into the neighborhood.
Read MoreLuke 6:27-28
Jesus said this in front of a crowd. These were not private mystical instructions. They were public ethical ones, and they were demanding.
Read MoreGenesis 1:27
The image of God is not an achievement. It is a status given before any human being did anything at all.
Read MoreColossians 3:2
Paul was not telling Christians to be so heavenly minded they are no earthly good. He was describing where the imagination that shapes behavior needs to be rooted.
Read More1 Corinthians 10:13
Three specific promises in one verse: you are not unique in your temptation, God limits what reaches you, and an exit is always built in.
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