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Are you Bearing Worthless Fruit? Isaiah 3-5. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 137, Isaiah  3-5

O you that profess to be his people, what more could Christ have done for you?
What more could the Holy Spirit have done? What richer promises, what wiser precepts, what kinder providences, what more gracious patience?

Charles Spurgeon

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

Isaiah 5:1b-2 ESV

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:19-23 ESV

Beware! Are you Bearing Worthless Wild Grapes? – FormerAtheist58
God of Every Grace – Matt Boswell

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The Ox (and Dog) Knows Its Master. Do We? – Isaiah 1-2. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 136, Isaiah 1-2

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.

Isaiah 1:3 ESV

What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Isaiah 1:11 ESV

The Ox (and Dog) Knows Its Master. Do We? – FormerAtheist58
Run and Run (Christ is All my Righteousness) Matt Boswell

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Am I a Slave or a Son? Thoughts from Galatians 4. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 131, Galatians 4

"But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God."
– Galatians 4:4-7 ESV

27 years ago we were packing our bags to travel to Russia to finalize the adoption process for our son. Adopted as a six-month-old, Nick learned to sit and crawl on our carpeted living room floor. He learned to cruise along our comfy brown couch. He learned to say “Mommy” and “Daddy” on my lap.

From the moment he became a part of our family, he was given equal standing with his older sister who had grown in my womb. There were no extra rules to keep. He was our son, and we were his parents. End of story.

Thank You, Father, for adopting me as Your daughter, for placing Your Holy Spirit in my heart as a seal of the genuineness of my faith. You have engraved my name on the palms of Your hands (Isaiah 49:16) and You have caused me to bear the name of Christ. Thank You for causing me to be born again, creating me anew after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:24). In the Name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.

Finding my Identity in Christ – I’m More Than a Homeschool Mom – FormerAtheist58
No Longer Slaves – Zach Williams

To Whom Much is Given Much is Required. Micah 1. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 117, Micah 1

All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel.

Micah 1:5a ESV

Let us as Christians never think, “I’m not *that* bad. I’m not like *those* people.”

Heavenly Father, please keep us humble. Keep us on our knees. Forgive us.

To Whom Much is Given Much is Required – FormerAtheist58
Guide Me, O My Great Redeemer – Sovereign Grace Music

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Jonah had No Pity for the People of Nineveh. Do We? 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 111, Jonah 2-4

Jonah cared more about the death of a plant that was giving him shade than he cared about the lost souls of the Ninevites. 🥹

Friends, every man, woman, and child has been created by God after the image of God. They deserve our love and care. They are not objects to be used or abused or disregarded. May we be as gracious and merciful and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness as our good God!

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Jonah had No Pity for the People of Nineveh. Do We? – FormerAtheist58
Beloved, Let Us Love One Another – FormerAtheist58

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Thinking of Others More Highly than Yourself. Jonah. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 110, Jonah 1

Who was Jonah thinking about when he refused to go to Nineveh?

Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”

But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

Jonah 1:1-3 ESV

Who were the sailors thinking about when they didn’t want to throw Jonah into the sea?

Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. Therefore they called out to the LORD, “O LORD, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.”

Jonah 1:11-14 ESV

Who was Jesus thinking about when He left heaven and came to earth and suffered to the point of death on a cross.

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Philippians 2:4-8 ESV

Thinking of Others More Highly than Yourself – FormerAtheist58
Bless the Lord O my Soul (Psalm 103) – Sovereign Grace Music

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Don’t Lose Hope – 2 Kings 24-25. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 109, 2 Kings 24-25

In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. And he burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.

2 Kings 25:8-11 ESV

Don’t lose hope! The Lord is still on His throne! Jesus is still the KING of Kings!

Keep going, and keep reading … The story isn’t finished yet.

Don’t Lose Hope! The Story Isn’t Finished! 2 Kings 24-25
He Will Hold Me Fast – Sovereign Grace Music T4G

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If Your Eye Causes You to Sin – 2 Kings 22-23. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Kings 22-23

And [King Josiah] deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem …  And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people. And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the LORD… and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beersheba.

2 Kings 23:5-8 ESV

Today’s passage about godly King Josiah pointed me to the KING of Kings, Jesus.
Jesus said in Matthew 5:29 ESV, “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.”

And again in Matthew 18:7-9 ESV, “Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.”

Let’s be SERIOUS about those temptations that lead US to sin, as well as those people who lead OTHERS to sin.

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If Your Eye Causes You to Sin – 2 Kings 22-23. FormerAtheist58
All People who on Earth Do Dwell

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God Hears the Prayers of His People – 2 Kings 20-21. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Kings 20-21

“Now, O LORD, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.”

And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him: “Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD and I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.”

2 Kings 20:3-6 ESV

God Hears the Prayers of His People – 2 Kings 20-21. FormerAtheist58
Our Father – Don Moen

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The Tactics of the Enemy vs The Faith of the Redeemed – 2 Kings 18-19. 2026.

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Kings 18-19.


The enemy lies, deceives, and accuses, all while promising blessing. How do we fight back?

Pray. Pray. And pray!

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said:

“O LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.

Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.

So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone.”

2 Kings 19:19 ESV

The Tactics of the Enemy vs The Faith of the Redeemed – 2 Kings 18-19. FormerAtheist58
His Glory And My Good – CityAlight (Lyric video)

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