04/17/2025“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” — John 6:51 (NIV)There are moments in Scripture where Jesus says something so radical, so profound, that it causes an uproar among those who hear it. Today’s verse is one of those moments. Jesus isn’t just offering encourageme...  Read More

04/16/2025“Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.”— Matthew 21:43 (NIV)These words of Jesus come at the end of the Parable of the Tenants. A pointed story directed at the religious leaders of His day. The parable tells of a landowner (God) who rents his vineyard to tenants (The religious leaders). When the landowne...  Read More

04/15/2025“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”—Matthew 21:13 (NIV)When Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out the money changers and those buying and selling, He wasn’t simply upset about commerce. He was heartbroken and righteously angry that the very place meant to bring people close to God had become a ...  Read More

04/14/2025“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.”— Matthew 23:37 (NIV)This verse is one of the most emotionally charged statements Jesus ever made. It’s not a moment of anger or judgment, though it comes at the end of a chapter full...  Read More

04/13/2025“Say to Daughter Zion,‘See, your king comes to you,gentle and riding on a donkey,and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”— Matthew 21:5 (NIV)There is something powerfully paradoxical about Matthew 21:5. A King is arriving. Not just any king, but the King. The One prophesied about for generations. The Messiah. And yet, He comes not with a chariot or sword, not with armies or trumpets, but w...  Read More

04/12/2025“You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.”- Galatians 5:13 (NIV)Freedom is a precious gift. And in Christ, it’s more than political liberty or personal autonomy, it’s the spiritual release from sin and the law. Paul reminds the believers in Galatia that their new life in Christ is not...  Read More

04/11/2025“I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”– Philippians 4:13 (NIV)This verse has become a favorite for athletes, entrepreneurs, and everyday believers alike. It’s printed on coffee mugs, stitched into gym bags, and quoted in moments of both triumph and challenge. But this verse is more than a motivational slogan. It’s a declaration of dependence, not independence. And to full...  Read More

04/10/2025“Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.’”—Matthew 9:37–38 (NIV)Jesus had just been traveling from town to town, healing the sick, opening blind eyes, raising the dead, and preaching the good news of the kingdom. But it wasn’t the miracles that moved His heart mos...  Read More

04/09/2025“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?”—1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)There’s something sacred about a place that holds God’s presence. In the Old Testament, the temple in Jerusalem was revered, a holy site where heaven touched earth. But Paul shifts that paradigm in today’s verse by revealing a powerful truth: you are now that sacred p...  Read More

04/08/2025“No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord.— Isaiah 54:17 (NIV)There are moments in life when it feels like everything is coming against us. Words spoken in anger, actions taken in secret, spiritual battles waged in silence. Face ...  Read More

04/07/2025“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”- Acts 4:12 (NIV)The early church was bold. In today’s reading, Peter and John had just healed a man who had been lame from birth. The religious leaders were furious. Not just because of the miracle, but because it was done in the name of Jesus. When questioned, Peter s...  Read More

04/06/2025“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.”— Philippians 3:10–11 (NIV)There’s a longing in these words that echoes the heart of every true believer. Paul, who had already encountered Christ in a powerful way and had given up everything ...  Read More