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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 with your host, Hunter, your Bible reading coach, guiding you through day 50 of our journey through the Scriptures. Today, we delve into the book of Numbers, exploring chapters five and six, where God gives instructions to the people of Israel, focusing on rituals and vows. We continue with the powerful cry of Psalm 22, a heart-wrenching yet hopeful expression of faith. Lastly, we join Paul as he passionately defends his faith before King Agrippa in Acts 26, proclaiming the truth of the resurrection and his mission to share the light with the Gentiles. Through these readings, we discover the freedom and joy found in trusting the risen Christ. Join us for a time of reflection, prayer, and the reminder that you are deeply loved by God.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
It seems crazy to everyone, but Paul is speaking the sober truth. To most people, the idea of a dead man being raised to life seems crazy. But Paul says, why does it seem so incredible that God can raise the dead? To Paul, this is the sober truth. There's nothing crazy about it. And when we believe in this sober truth and trust the risen Christ, he sets us free from the inside out. So Paul, the prisoner, stands before this crowd and says, I pray to God that both you and everyone here in this audience might become the same as I am, except for these chains. He has chains, but he is the freest man there.
The irony is that at the end of this speech, Agrippa and Festus and all the others walk away, and their final comment is he could have been set free if he hadn't appealed to Caesar. Unfortunately, they weren't so minded and couldn't see that the freest man among them was Paul. He had been freed of the guilt of his former life, where he had overseen the death of Christians and had persecuted Christ himself. He had been freed from the self-righteousness that blindly led him to that kind of life. He may have been in chains, but Paul was sober and free.
Through the resurrection, you have been included in the sober, free life of God. Live a sober and free life. Don't let religion come in and entangle you. Don't let your past come in and chain you up anymore. Live like Paul in the reality of what is, what is true about all that God has done in Christ, not only for you, but for the whole world. You are sober, and you are free. Live in it.
That's the prayer that I have for my own soul this very day. That's the prayer that I have for my family, for my wife and my daughters and my son this very day. And that's the prayer that I have for you this very day. 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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