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With God All Things Are Possible
A familiar line of encouragement turns out, in its own setting, to be about something harder than success.
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At the Jordan: Reading the Baptism of Jesus
Before Jesus spoke a word in public ministry, he stepped into a river and let himself be baptized, and the Gospel of Matthew tells us what happened next.
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The Warning and the Question
Before Jesus named what was dangerous, he turned his disciples toward the one question that mattered most.
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The Book That Never Names God
Esther is often called the Bible's most political book, and the thing it leaves unsaid may be its clearest word to a tired reader.
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What to Do With Worry
Scripture does not tell us to stop feeling anxious; it tells us where to take the anxiety.
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One Day Is Enough to Carry
A short study on worry, and the quiet discipline of living within a single day.
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When the Giant Is Named: A Study of David and Goliath
The account in 1 Samuel is read often and claimed widely, so it is worth reading slowly for what it actually says.
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When We Reach for Goliath: Reading 1 Samuel 17 Again
A story so familiar it is often borrowed carries more than we tend to remember.
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When a House of Worship Is Rebuilt
A rededicated church invites us to ask what makes any building holy, and what holds when the walls do not.
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Be Still: What It Means to Wait Well
A short study on stillness, and why resting in God is an act, not an absence of one.
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Enough Is a Place to Stand
Contentment is not a mood that arrives on good days; it is a foundation you can build on.
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The Gardener Who Gives Us Enough
God plants, tends and provides, and learning to receive what he grows in us is the beginning of contentment.
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Enough: The Quiet Strength of Contentment
In a culture that measures life by more, Scripture teaches that godliness with contentment is itself a kind of wealth.
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What We Stopped Noticing
Some sins fade from view not because they end, but because the world around us stops counting them as sin.
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What Stones Can and Cannot Prove
A study on the place of evidence in a faith that was always meant to rest on more than evidence.
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Be Still: Learning to Rest Before God
Stillness is not idleness; it is the discipline of trusting God when we would rather act.
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Mercy That Rises With the Sun
A short study on why the morning is the right hour to begin again.
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How Do We Know What Is Good?
The oldest question in worship — whether a thing is good — is answered not by instinct or by age, but by the word that measures everything else.
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When an Accusation Comes: Justice, Truth, and the Slow Work of Peace
A court case now moving toward a settlement conference offers a hard question for the study table: how does a community of faith hold truth and mercy together when someone stands accused?
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Anxiety and the Practice of Asking
A short passage in Philippians offers a plain instruction for the mind that will not settle.
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Where We Turn for Wisdom
A new poll finds that a small but real share of people who use artificial intelligence now turn to it with spiritual questions, which makes it worth asking again how Scripture is meant to be studied.
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The Rest That Is Offered, Not Earned
A study on Matthew 11:28–30, and what it means to be given rest rather than told to find it.
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Be Still, and Know
A short line from an old song of trust asks us to stop before it asks us to believe.
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The Ground Beneath the Promise
A new trail through Samaria invites walkers to stand where Scripture was first spoken, and to ask what it means to follow a promise on foot.
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When Hatred Wears the Language of Faith
A study on the image of God in every person, prompted by a report on a movement that dresses old prejudice in Christian words.
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Rest for the Weary
A short study on what it means to bring a tired life to Jesus and be given rest.
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When the Word Is Sung but Not Changed
A project has set the entire Bible to music across many styles without altering a single word, and that restraint is worth sitting with.
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The Name God Gives Himself
Before we describe God, Scripture invites us to listen to how God has described himself.
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Those Who Teach, and Keep Learning
A study on the weight and the gift of teaching the faith, and on the humility that keeps a teacher a student.
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When a Calling Will Not Let You Go
A study on what Scripture means by being set apart, and what it asks of the one who is called.
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The Rest That Is Offered, Not Earned
Weariness is not a failure of faith, and the invitation to rest is spoken to the tired, not the strong.
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Be Still Before You Are Ready
Stillness is not the reward for a settled heart; it is the practice that settles one.
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Enough for Today
A single line from an old psalm offers a way to measure a day that feels short on everything.
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When the Word Is Sung
A new website that sets scripture to song has drawn a million plays in a fortnight, and the practice it revives is older than any of us.
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Be Still, and Know
A single line from the Psalms teaches us that rest is not the same as retreat.
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Receiving the Whole of Scripture
A study on why the church plans to hear all of God's word, and gives thanks that it can be read at all.
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Shepherds under the Chief Shepherd
Peter's instructions to elders are an outline of what leadership in the church is and is not.
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Done with sin, alive to God: 1 Peter 4:1-11
A careful walk through the paragraph where Peter turns from Christ's suffering to the shape of a Christian's remaining time.
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Do not be surprised by the fire
Peter tells suffering Christians that the ordeal is not strange, and then tells them how to carry it.
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Peter on the water
The apostle who wrote do not fear their threats once learned that lesson on a lake at night.
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Christ suffered once, and it was enough
The hardest paragraph in 1 Peter still has a clear centre.
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Free people who submit
Peter tells Christians under a hostile empire to honour the emperor, and he means it.
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Stones that are alive
Peter builds a house out of people and sets Christ as its cornerstone.
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Minds ready for action
Peter moves from praise to command, and the first command is about how we think.
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The One Who Commands the Sea
When Jesus stills a storm, his disciples ask a question the song of Moses already answered.
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Who Among the Gods Is Like You?
The song of Moses is Israel's first theology, sung rather than argued.
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Stand Still, Then Move On
The crossing of the sea holds together two commands that seem to contradict each other.
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What Does This Ceremony Mean to You?
The Passover instructions include a script for a question children will one day ask.
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The Exodus Jesus Spoke About on the Mountain
At the transfiguration, Moses appears and talks with Jesus about a departure.
