Return to the Lord – He is Gracious and Merciful. Joel 1-3. 2026

Read the Bible in 2 Years: Joel 1-3

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.”

Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Joel 2:12-13 ESV


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Return to the Lord for He is Gracious and Merciful – FormerAtheist58
Jesus, Strong and Kind – City Alight

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Struggling with Idleness, especially as a Homemaker. 2 Thessalonians 2-3. 2026

Read the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Thessalonians 2-3

Can any of you relate? It’s hard to work hard.

And having a phone in my back pocket has made it even harder.

Prayers appreciated – for me, for this generation of homemakers, and the next.

If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.

2 Thessalonians 3:10b-11 ESV

Older women … are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled … working at home … that the word of God may not be reviled.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV

Struggling with Idleness, especially as a Homemaker – FormerAtheist58
Bringing in the Sheaves – Classic Hymns

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God is the One who Makes me Worthy. Praise Him with Me. 2 Thessalonians 1. 2026

Read the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Thessalonians 1

To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 ESV

Admonish the Idle. Encourage the Fainthearted. Do Good to Everyone  – FormerAtheist58
And Can It Be? Hymns of Grace

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Admonish the Idle. Encourage the Fainthearted. Do Good to Everyone. 1 Thessalonians 4-5. 2026

Read the Bible in 2 Years: 1 Thessalonians 4-5

We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

1 Thessalonians 5:12-15 ESV

Admonish the Idle. Encourage the Fainthearted. Do Good to Everyone  – FormerAtheist58
Jesus Paid it All – Hymnology

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Old Age is a Blessing. Let us Honor our Elders. Lamentations 5. 2026

Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 37, Lamentations 5

No respect is shown to the elders.

Lamentations 5:12b ESV

Long life is a blessing of the Lord. May we honor those to whom it’s due.

Please join me in praying blessings over my mom and dad as they celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary.

Old Age is a Blessing. Let us Honor our Elders – FormerAtheist58
Even in my Old Age – Aaron Shust

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BLESSED is the Man who TRUSTS in the LORD. Jeremiah 16-17. 2026

Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 13, Jeremiah 16-17

Thus says the LORD:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.

He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.

He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Jeremiah 17:5-8

BLESSED is the Man who TRUSTS in the LORD – FormerAtheist58
Like a Tree – Caroline Cobb

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God is the Potter and I am the Clay – Isaiah 63-64. 2026

Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 13, Isaiah 63-64

But now, O LORD, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.

Isaiah 64:8 ESV

God is the Potter and I am the Clay – FormerAtheist58
You are the Potter and I am the Clay

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Making the Choice to Rejoice – Isaiah 60-62. 2026

Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 12, Isaiah 60-62

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 61:10 ESV

Making the Choice to Rejoice – FormerAtheist58
Rejoice – Getty

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The High and Holy God is with the Lowly – Isaiah 57-59. 2026

Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 11, Isaiah 57-59

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”

Isaiah 57:15 ESV

The High and Holy God is with the Lowly – FormerAtheist58
Worthy – Cece Winans

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My Life is an Offering to Jesus – Isaiah 54-56. 2026

Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 10, Isaiah 54-56

And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

Isaiah 56:6-7 ESV

My Life is an Offering to Jesus – FormerAtheist58
Take my Life and Let it Be – Norton Hall Band

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