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Day 92Today's Reading: Acts 3When a big event is over and life starts up again, how do we cope? How does that look? Or how do we look?After an inspiring Sunday church service, Monday will be there. Monday is always coming. There will be no lights, no band, no greeters at the door, no hugging . . . because it’s Monday and we have a job and a schedule to keep.The biggest event in church history...

Day 91Today’s Reading: Acts 2The church was entering a time that would prove to be the most difficult to be a Christian. Believers would die or be persecuted for following Jesus. The persecution started in the first century and continued for three centuries under the orders of Roman emperors Nero to Diocletian who ordered some of the most horrific things done to Christians. Jesus knew this...

Day 90Today's Reading: Acts 1Dr. R.T. Kendall recalls words his mother told him once about an old saint who had great influence on his mother’s life—and consequently on his. She said, “I have served the Lord for so long now that I can hardly tell the difference between a blessing and a trial.”She understood something important: that what you call a problem can really be an answer to prayer. What...

Day 89Today's Reading: John 21We know that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879. Back then they didn’t have mass production, so each bulb had to be created separately. He and his colleagues worked twenty-four painstaking and meticulous hours straight to put just one together. The story goes that when Edison was finished with that light bulb, he gave it to a young boy to deliver up the...

Day 88Today's Reading: John 20What if Jesus showed up to your Sunday night service today?I know we talk about Resurrection morning, but not many talk about what happened that night. Resurrection night was a huge event for the disciples. I’m afraid if Jesus showed up to one of our twenty-first-century Sunday evening church services, He wouldn’t find many there. And Jesus had an important...

Day 87Today's Reading: John 19One hundred pounds is a lot of extra weight to carry with you. It is noticeable when you put it on and it’s noticeable when you shed it. Our story today is one hundred pounds put on and it’s noticeable, because you can’t hide one hundred pounds.Let me tell you about a person whose name you will recognize. Nicodemus. And he picked up one hundred pounds on his Jesus...

Day 86Today's Reading: John 18I remember a few years ago flying out of a large midwestern city in the middle of bad storms. Planes were still taking off, but passengers were feeling uneasy. I have to tell you, as I waited at my gate, I wasn’t feeling it either, and fear started to hit me.Then I saw our pilot come to our gate. He was this old, wrinkle-faced man. His uniform bore a lot of gold bars...

Day 85Today’s Reading: John 17John 17 is holy ground. If I were God’s editor, I never would have allowed this chapter in the Bible. It’s sacred, it’s other-world, it’s uncomfortable . . . it’s the prayer closet of Jesus. This is a very solemn chapter, what we call the high priestly prayer of Jesus.I have thousands of books in my library on so many topics. But to my amazement, I’ve seen only two...

Day 84Today’s Reading: John 16In The Grace Awakening, author and pastor Charles Swindoll used an imaginative illustration for how best we can live: imagine driving on a treacherous mountain road with a cliff on both sides. As you approach a hairpin turn, you must decide which is better: a state-of-the-art hospital with the best doctors in the world at the bottom of the mountain or a giant yellow...

Day 83Today’s Reading: John 15Today’s reading is a challenge. It’s a second step that Jesus gives to those who choose to follow Him.During Jesus’ life, He constantly said to those who were ready to start a journey with God to “follow Me.” And for those who accepted the challenge, he gave them a revolutionary second step: “Abide in Me.”Listen to these challenging words of this new kind of...