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One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on 'The Daily Radio Bible' for a daily 20-minute spiritual journey. Engage with scripture readings, heartfelt devotionals, and collective prayers that draw you into the heart of God's love. Embark...
One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on 'The Daily Radio Bible' for a daily 20-minute spiritual journey. Engage with scripture readings, heartfelt devotionals, and collective prayers that draw you into the heart of God's love. Embark on this year-long voyage through the Bible, and let each day's passage uplift and inspire you.
TODAY'S EPISODE:
Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible, where we embark on a transformative journey through the scriptures, exploring the love of God each day. In this episode, dated February 15th, 2025, host Hunter invites us into a profound exploration of biblical texts, focusing on Leviticus 25, Psalms 25 and 26, and Acts 22. While Leviticus is not commonly associated with love, it holds one of the most famous biblical verses about love: "Love your neighbor as yourself," which even Jesus quoted. Today, we delve into its depths alongside Psalms of David's heartfelt prayers and Paul's powerful testimony in Acts. Our readings reveal a God who commands us to encounter His love, share it, and transcend the boundaries that separate us. As we absorb these scriptures, Hunter leads us in prayer, reminding us of the ever-present call to love and embrace all of humanity as God does. Prepare to be inspired, challenged, and enveloped in the life-changing love of God. Let's journey through the word together, encountering the heart of Jesus revealed in the scriptures. So grab your Bible and join us as we dive into today’s exploration of God’s enduring love.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
The crowd is listening, dazzled by the description of light, the voice from heaven, the trance-like visitation. Their interest is peaked, and they're inspired as they hear of this supernatural encounter and transformed life of Paul. Paul's giving his testimony, and they're very intrigued. This once hostile crowd is now listening until one word is spoken. For them, it is the word that stands in the way of that same light, that same life breaking through in their own lives. It stands in the way of their own hope and transformation. This one word breaks the silence. And at this one word, they go to war.
The word is Gentile, right in verse 22. The crowd listened until Paul said that word. Then they all began to shout, away with such a fellow. He isn't fit to live. That word represented something to them. It represented their own place before God, their own justification before God. It's so tragic that one word could stand in the way of their seeing God's life and love as it really is, a love that extends to every human being that you've ever laid eyes on.
In this case, it spoke of those who were in and those who were out, those who were loved and those who are not loved, those that are friends and those who are foes. And Paul kicks over all those notions and lets all those listening to him know that God's love, God's embrace, goes far beyond the boundaries of any words that we might ever conjure up. God loves the Jew indeed, but he also loves the Gentile. In fact, God's love is not confined by our words at all.
God's love for all humanity is discovered and revealed in the face of Jesus. And he's here to let the whole world know that God's love is far greater than we've ever dared to think. So hear Paul and hear Jesus. Hear them dismantling any words that we might have in our hearts that confine him and try to keep others outside of God's embrace. Because, in the end, those words that we think will exclude others will only work to exclude our own hearts and keep our own hearts and eyes blinded to the magnitude of the God who loves everyone.
So let's hear him well today, and let us let him remove the barriers that keep us from seeing him. That's the prayer that I have for my own soul. That's the prayer that I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters, and my son. And that's the prayer that I have for you. May it be so.
TODAY'S PRAYERS:
Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.
Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
And now Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, Joy. Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life. Amen
And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ. Amen.
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