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January 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 4:4 …“It is written, ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'” – Jesus had an “It is written” kind of faith. Let us imitate it!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in the Acts of the Apostles 2:36 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: It’s a Salvation of the Soul from Sin (0:57)

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January 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 1:21 “She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” – People who are unconcerned about their sins perceive little need for a savior. Unfortunately, there seems to be a growing number of such people.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Son – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Secularism Is the Biggest Lie of the Modern Age (0:57)

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January 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. – Of course, we hear proponents of evolutionary theory say otherwise, but then there’s this: Romans 1:22-23 Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 John 1:9-11 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Secular Mind Versus the Christian Mind (0:58)

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January 4
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” – If, as some people say, the kingdom of heaven has not yet arrived, then this statement by Jesus makes Him look foolish or false. But He is neither!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as Lord – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Show a Man What He May Let Go Of… (0:56)

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January 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 1:23 “BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD AND SHALL BEAR A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL,” which translated means, “GOD WITH US.” – Matthew is here quoting (in all caps) from things the prophet Isaiah wrote in chapters 7, 8, and 9 of the Old Testament book that bears his name.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Hebrews 13:8 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Letting Go of Church to Grasp the Kingdom of God (0:58)

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January 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. – God defines family in one sentence.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Prophet – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The King Is Dead – Long Live the King! (0:47)

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January 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” – In other words, blessed is the man who is not full of himself. The man who is poor in spirit knows he’s in need; the man who is rich in spirit thinks he has no need of the Lord or His Spirit.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Genesis 49:10 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The King Summons You! (0:45)

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January 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 24:27 Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. – An eye-opening Bible study if there ever was one!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Leader – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The King’s Decree (0:32)

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January 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” – The primary form in which Satan presents this question to modern man is, “Indeed, has God said anything at all?” It is the great granddaddy of all temptations. God came to answer this question eternally and emphatically in Jesus Christ. And the New Testament documents this divine answer.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Matthew 1:21 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God Is Here and Now (0:58)

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January 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” – No one can escape mourning in this world – it is the inevitable consequence of sin. What’s really sad, though, is people going without comfort in their mourning. Those who reject Jesus and His kingdom are rejecting the comfort for mourning that it includes.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Branch – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God in the 21st Century (1:01)

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January 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 24:32 They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?” – Jesus made this statement to His disciples before a single word of the New Testament had been written. And, indeed, when we start seeing Jesus revealed in the Old Testament, it’s like someone lit a match to our hearts.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 8:31-32 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God Is the Kingdom of Heaven (0:59)

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January 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity / Between you and the woman, / And between your seed and her seed; / He shall bruise you on the head, / And you shall bruise him on the heel.” – This is God pronouncing judgment on the serpent after his role in Adam’s and Eve’s sin. The Messiah would suffer – but not nearly as much as the serpent would!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Passover – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Second Greatest Conspiracy Theory of All Time (0:59)

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January 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.” – Being harsh is for losers. You can be gentle and firm at the same time – Jesus was and is. But you can’t be gentle and harsh at the same time.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 11:25-26 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Greatest Conspiracy Theory of All Time (0:41)

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January 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 24:44 Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” – We will miss the main point of Jesus’ resurrection if we think of it in isolation. Rather, we must understand that it was a fulfillment of what God had promised through the Old Testament. As Paul put it: 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures…
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Cleft Rock – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Is the New Testament Reliable History…or a Pack of Lies? (0:13)

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January 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless those who bless you, / And the one who curses you I will curse. / And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” – God made this promise to Abram (Abraham), and Jesus, as a descendant of Abram, inherited it. Through our relationship with Jesus Christ, we inherit all the promises of God: 2 Corinthians 1:20 For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 13:34 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The NT Is a Wall of Truth! (0:35)

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January 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” – It is shocking how many people who call on the name of Jesus show few signs of appreciating just how strongly He feels about righteousness.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Ladder – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What are you going to do about the New Testament? (0:45)

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January 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. – A sentence this profound could be marveled at for centuries without reaching the limits of its meaning. History has proven this. And still is.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 20:30-31 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Have you made your decision about the New Testament? (0:48)

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January 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 17:19 But God said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. – Sarah was as much a part of the miracle as Abraham was. That Isaac’s birth was miraculous foreshadowed the Messiah’s birth would be as well – only more so!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Stone – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What are you doing with the New Testament? (0:54)

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January 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.” – The less mercy we show, the less we experience. (The hardest part of getting judged is learning that we did it to ourselves.)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The world doesn’t need another religion (0:30)

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January 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” – Mary would lose her confidence in Jesus after the wedding in Cana, but then would regain it after that. If you lose confidence in Jesus, make haste to regain it. He is worthy of our trust.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Replacement God (0:53)

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January 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 28:14 “Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. – This is the promise God made first to Abram, then to Isaac, and, in this instance, to Jacob. It was fulfilled in their descendant Jesus Christ, to whom we have been joined in covenant.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 11:2-3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Responsibilities of a Man (0:47)

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January 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” – James 4:8 …purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Shepherd – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Revelation (0:43)

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January 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 3:36 “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” – This is John the Baptist testifying to the difference Jesus can make in a human life.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 4:5 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Righteousness is a Function of Context (0:57)

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January 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 49:10 “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, / Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, / Until Shiloh comes, /And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.” – This is Jacob prophesying on his deathbed that the messiah (i.e. the promised one) would be a descendant of his son Judah and would rule over all nations.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Seed – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Righteousness and Sin (0:31)

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January 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” – Conversely, cursed are the troublemakers.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Galatians 2:20 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Repent! – Repentance Is from Sin to Righteousness (0:31)

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January 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 7:46 The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.” – You don’t have to read too many of the red letters in the Bible to realize how true this statement is.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Sun – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: When I read the Bible, I sometimes understand parts of it (0:56)

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January 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Exodus 12:5 ‘Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old… – In describing the Passover lamb that each Israelite family was to sacrifice the night before the exodus from Egypt, Moses was foreshadowing Messiah…who would be the sacrifice for our sins and the never-ending nourishing meal for all who love righteousness.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 John 3:23 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Read the Bible like you would eat an elephant (0:52)

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January 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:10 “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” – These days, what percentage of our country’s citizens are righteous enough to qualify for persecution?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Lamb of God – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Read the Bible like you’d read a library (0:56)

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January 29
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 11:28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” – What Martha said here to Mary, the Holy Spirit is now and forever saying to all of us. Jesus Christ is the Teacher – come to teach us all how to live in this difficult world.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Zechariah 14:9 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Writing in your Bible (1:01)

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January 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Leviticus 17:11 ‘For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’ – The reason Jesus’ blood is emphasized in the apostles’ writings is that His life was in it. (Leviticus is speaking literally of animal blood, but figuratively prophesying of Christ. That is, His life was poured out to atone for our sins and give life to our souls.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Ram of God – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Landing Zones in your Bible (1:01)

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January 31
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:11-12 “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” – No one in his right mind wants to be insulted, persecuted, and falsely accused, especially not for doing the right things in life…but it’s comforting to know that enduring such things down here (where everything is temporary) will produce rewards up there (where everything is permanent).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Acts 10:38 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: I’m Not a Bible “Answer Man” (0:57)

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February 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 20:30-31 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name. – As Nicodemus admitted to Jesus, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” (John 3:1-2)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Rock – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Bible exist to support your relationship with God, not vice versa (0:55)

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February 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Leviticus 19:18 ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.’ – Talk about a finding a needle in a hay stack! Jesus found the second most important commandment in the law of Moses smack dab in the middle of Leviticus, of all places!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Romans 6:23 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: So great a salvation! (1:06)

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February 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.” – To use terms with which you and I are more familiar, Jesus was saying here, “Do not think that I came to do away with the Old Testament; I did not come to ignore it but to fulfill it.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Teacher – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Like a humble child or like a know-it-all senior? (0:52)

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February 4
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 2:32 “This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses.” – So declared Peter to a big crowd in Jerusalem 50 days after Jesus was raised from the dead and 10 days after He ascended into heaven – the same Peter who had denied he even knew Jesus the night before His crucifixion.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 1:9 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Father Wounds and Daddy Issues (0:58)

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February 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Numbers 21:9 And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived. – How could we have ever figured out that what Moses did here was pointing to Jesus’ crucifixion some 1,500 years later unless Jesus Himself had told us (John 3:14-15)? Israel’s religious leaders sure couldn’t figure it out or else they wouldn’t have pushed the Romans to crucify Him.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Breaker – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Hope in Christ, not Politics (0:54)

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February 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:19 “Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” – Sounds like Jesus was familiar with the key to Ezra’s success: Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 10:24 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: When you are called to account for yourself… (1:01)

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February 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 2:36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ–this Jesus whom you crucified.” – Peter – the same Peter who had been so intimidated some 53 evenings earlier that he denied even knowing Jesus – is here on the day of Pentecost roaring like a lion! (Ps 138:3 …You made me bold with strength in my soul.)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Vine – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: How is Jesus like Lot? (0:37)

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February 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Numbers 27:16-18 “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep which have no shepherd.” So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him…” – FJOT! FJOT! FJOT! (I’m saying it like USA! USA! USA!)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 18:36 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What are the two biggest reasons we ought not try to control everything? (0:54)

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February 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:48 “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” – Jesus is ambitious.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the King – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: WWJD (1:27)

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February 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 3:26 “For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.” – The pursuit of righteousness brings blessings!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 5:19 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: “If I Ruled the World” (Tony Bennett song) (1:15)

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February 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” – Moses was the first to speak this, but Jesus was the first to fully live it.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ is the Shoot – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Prophets and the Apostles (0:34)

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February 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:1 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.” – In other words, “Beware of virtue signaling because it will do you no good with Jesus.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Colossians 2:6 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: When is it better to know only a little about God? (0:21)

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February 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts of the Apostles 4:11-12 “He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone. And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” – The apostle Peter declares to a group of “rulers and elders and scribes” gathered in Jerusalem that the resurrection of the crucified Jesus was a fulfillment of Psalm 118:22. The most biblically-literate people in Jerusalem did not appreciate Peter’s FJOT, so they reprimanded him for telling them about it. How could the most biblically-literate people be so obtuse? Simple. It’s not how much of the Bible we know that gives us insight into the things of God as much as how much of the Bible we do.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Root – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Are you part of God‘s problem or part of His solution? (0:12)

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February 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Deuteronomy 18:15 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.” – Moses prophesies the resurrection (“will raise up”) of Jesus…about 15 centuries in advance!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 8:12 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Ecclesiastes 11:4 and Acts 1:11 (1:03)

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February 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.” – Jesus sounds pretty serious about this forgiveness thing.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Tree – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Abraham and Moses (0:12)

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February 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: The Acts of the Apostles 4:33 And with great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was upon them all. – What an apt, succinct, and beautiful description of the New Testament period – that is, the 1st century AD. The residue of that grace – that is, the 27 texts the we call the New Testament – is the primary means by which that grace continues to come to us, century after century.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 16:14 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Ring of Truth (0:56)

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February 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Deuteronomy 21:22-23 “If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.” – Who could have imagined when Moses wrote this provision of the Law that it would one day apply to the Messiah? But once it happened – especially as part of a larger sequence of prophesy-fulfilling events – it would become impossible to deny that it applied to Messiah!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Commander – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jeremiah’s Potter (Jer 11) (0:13)

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February 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.” – Think about this in the context of Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” – The easy part comes first: Serve God and stuff comes. Once the stuff comes, however, we’re tempted to serve the stuff. The key to righteous living is to be able to continue serving God even when the stuff comes and not be distracted by it. Stuff comes and stuff goes; Jesus our Lord is forever. Paul figured it out: Philippians 4:11-13 Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Ephesians 5:1-2 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Is God asking too much? (0:13)

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February 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 5:42 And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. – With Bibles in every home, we should be able to do this even more effectively in the 21st century than they could in the 1st. Of course, we don’t have the apostles…but we do have what they wrote (that is, the New Testament).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is Immanuel – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Is Judas a type of Satan? (0:16)

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February 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Joshua 1:8 “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.” – How fitting that this exhortation would be written by the man for whom Joseph and Mary named their first child!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Colossians 2:5 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The sitting down was the big thing! (1:02)

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February 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” – It is perfectly logical that Jesus would not call us to make righteousness our highest priority in life unless He were prepared to make sure we didn’t starve to death because of our pursuit of it. This is why David could write: Psalm 37:25 I have been young and now I am old, / Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken / Or his descendants begging bread. – Every commandment of the Lord carries with it a promise, some explicit and others implicit. God always acts consistent with His nature: Heb 11:6 …He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Pillar – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Today’s fathers walk in the footsteps of the apostles (1:00)

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February 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 10:38 “You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.” – Disease is from Satan; healing is from God. Pretty simple. Israel’s religious elite had it exactly backwards: Matthew 12:22-24 Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus, and He healed him, so that the mute man spoke and saw. All the crowds were amazed, and were saying, “This man cannot be the Son of David, can he?” But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man casts out demons only by Beelzebul the ruler of the demons.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Timothy 1:15 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The book of Psalms is the overflow of David’s heart (1:05)

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February 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Joshua 24:15 “If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” – The duty of a man in the 21st century is to be as determined about this as Joshua was.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Rod – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Post Tenebras Lux (0:39)

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February 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” – Jesus was a young man, but he spoke with the wisdom of an old one.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Timothy 2:5-6 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Making room for the word of God (0:28)

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February 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 12:24 …the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied. – Oh, how I long to see it growing again as in times of old! Spiritual decline is not inevitable. Repentance is possible…individually and nationally.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Stump – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Are you being quiet enough to hear God? (0:32)

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February 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Samuel 7:14 “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men,” – God delivered the prophecy that Messiah would be a descendant – in other words, a son – of King David through the prophet Nathan. Notice how this portion of that prophecy also declares that David’s descendant would be the Son of God as well.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 5:7 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Because the New Testament says THIS, we can say THAT (1:00)

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February 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 7:5 “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” – In other words, don’t skip step two of Ezra’s formula: Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Tree of Life – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What’s different about new times as compared to our times? (0:53)

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February 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts of the Apostles 13:32-33 “And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.'” – Paul is declaring that the word “begotten” in Psalm 2:7 was an allusion to resurrection. And it’s why Jesus was called “the firstborn of the dead” in Colossians 1:18 and Revelation 1:5. It also means that Jesus was the first person ever to be “born again.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Philippians 1:21 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Adultery and Idolatry (0:47)

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(February 29)
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” – What an invitation! What a shame if we do not take full advantage of it!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ is the Lord – a 3-minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Who and What Does God Love? (0:09)

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March 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Kings 23:25 Before him there was no king like him who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him. – King Josiah foreshadowed the greatest Israelite king of all: Jesus Christ our Lord!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as Bread – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: God Is Transcendent (0:42)

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March 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” – Sometimes we are caught off guard when we share the good news of Jesus and the Bible and people react like wild animals. But once once such people reveal their nature, we should stop feeding them.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Colossians 3:24 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Learn from the past (0:30)

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March 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 16:31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” – Then let us say as boldly as Joshua did, “…as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Josh 24:15)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Manna – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Does the Bible support capitalism? (0:52)

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March 4

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March 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” – Israel’s Messiah is telling us how reality works.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Unleavened Bread – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The apostles had a zero tolerance policy for fear 1 of 4 (0:12)

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March 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 17:18 And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What would this idle babbler wish to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”–because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. – Strange indeed that God would come down and let us treat Him like this. Maybe He’s trying to tell us something.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Peter 3:17-18 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The apostles had a zero tolerance policy for fear 2 of 4 (0:10)

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March 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Chronicles 12:22 For day by day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army like the army of God. – I love this verse. Like so many messianic verses in the Old Testament, it is both history and prophecy. That is, it speaks historically of David, and thereby simultaneously speaks prophetically of Messiah – who would be a descendant of David.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Son of Man – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The apostles had a zero tolerance policy for fear 3 of 4 (0:11)

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March 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 7:11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!” – If we have a distorted idea of how an earthly father should think and act, we’ll have a distorted idea of how God thinks and acts.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 73:28 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The apostles had a zero tolerance policy for fear 4 of 4 (0:13)

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March 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 18:5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. – As Paul solemnly testified that Jesus was the Christ, so righteous preachers today solemnly testify that the Christ is God.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Light – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Son of Man (1:06)

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March 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Chronicles 16:9 “For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His…” – During His days on earth, Israel’s Messiah walked from one end of His homeland to the other looking for people who believed Him so that He could heal them of their diseases and declare to them the good news of God’s eternal love for us.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Peter 2:25 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: More on the Son of Man (0:38)

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March 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 7:12 “In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” – The Messiah reveals the foundational principle of Moses’ law to ancient Israel. That principle would be retained going forward even as animal sacrifice, tabernacle and temple maintenance, kosher food laws, and such were being jettisoned. This is consistent with what He’d said earlier in the Sermon on the Mount: Matt 5:17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Way – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: How bad is doubt for your soul? (0:06)

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March 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 18:28 for he [a Jew named Apollos who “was mighty in the Scriptures”] powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. – How did Christianity get started? Jews preaching to Jews about the Jewish Messiah who had been prophesied by Jewish prophets in Jewish writings.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Revelation 17:14 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Doubter’s Disease (0:07)

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March 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Job 19:25 “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, / And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.” – In the midst of his pain and torment, Job prophesies of Messiah. As hopeless as he felt, he still had the hope of Messiah!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Firstborn of All Creation – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Kick out the Doubt! (0:07)

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March 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 7:13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.” – How then can we any hope of escaping what’s outside and finding entrance into this glorious kingdom? By cultivating the qualities described by Peter in 2 Pet 1:5-9. For in verses 10-11, Peter promises that cultivation of these qualities will “abundantly supply entrance” into this kingdom.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 23 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Make every day a red-letter day! (0:08)

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March 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 20:24 “But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.” – Where would you and I be if Paul and the other apostles had lacked this resolve? We’d still be going to heaven, but we’d have no way of knowing that until we arrived there. Jesus did the work; His apostles reported the result.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Firstborn of the Dead – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Could God be a Committee? (0:30)

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March 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: OT: Ps 2:6 “But as for Me, I have installed My King / Upon Zion, My holy mountain.” – The “holy mountain” ultimately in view here is not the earthly Zion (Jerusalem), but rather heaven itself. (NT: Heb 12:18-22 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched…But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem…”)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 25:8 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: A Spectacle for the Ages (1:04)

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March 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 7:15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” – Jesus was either a false prophet or he was the Messiah.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as Jesus – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Why Did God Make a Spectacle of Himself? (0:11)

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March 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 20:32 “And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. – The word of God’s grace is eternal…and therefore still able to build us up and to give us the inheritance among all those who are sanctified!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 118:22-24 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Why did God try to get our attention by dying on a cross? (0:09)

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March 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 2:7 “I will surely tell of the decree of the LORD: / He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, / Today I have begotten You.” – Paul preached that Ps 2:7 was a promise from God fulfilled by the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. In other words, “begotten” in Ps 2:7 means “born” from the dead – which is why Jesus is called “the firstborn from the dead.” In support of what I just said, consider the following two statements from Paul: 1) Acts 13:32-33 “And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.’ 2) Colossians 1:18 …He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus as the Christ – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord)
  • Daily Video Minute: Why does God want us to know how bad we are? (0:10)

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March 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 9:5 “Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk’?” – Saying the former would be infinitely easier than saying the latter. This is because there would be no immediate way of knowing if the sins were actually forgiven, but it would be obvious whether or not the person addressed got up and walked.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Isaiah 9:6-7 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord)
  • Daily Video Minute: Why does God want us to know how good he is? (0:09)

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March 21

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March 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 2:8 ‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, / And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.’ – Because of this messianic prophecy in the Old Testament, Paul could write the following statement about the Messiah in the New Testament (emphasis added in both): Hebrews 1:1-2 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Isaiah 53:3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord)
  • Daily Video Minute: God made a spectacle of Himself in order to have a relationship with us (0:46)

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March 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 10:39 “He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.” – This is because: 2 Cor 5:14-15 …the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. – In other words, to the degree we continuing living for ourselves, as has been our nature from birth, we lose, but to the degree we live for Him, we win.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Father – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: God associated Himself forever with a cross (0:39)

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March 24

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March 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 2:11 Worship the LORD with reverence / And rejoice with trembling. – That Jesus calls us “friends” should not lead to our treating Him cavalierly or in any way irreverently. By our reverent obedience, we will be true friends to Him. – John 15:14 “You are My friends if you do what I command you.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Anointed – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: A cross comes from wood (0:46)

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March 26

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March 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. – In other words: 2 Cor 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Bridegroom – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: When you think cross, think wood (0:40)

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March 28

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March 29

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March 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Over and over, the apostles agree: 1 John 5:11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Revelation 7:17 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Chronological Snobbery (1:08)

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March 31

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April 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 12:30 “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters.” – Contrast with this: Luke 9:49-50 John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name; and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow along with us.” But Jesus said to him, “Do not hinder him; for he who is not against you is for you.” – See the difference? What matters is where people stand with Jesus – not where they stand with us. That’s why the apostles could say: 2 Cor 4:5 For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus’ sake.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Matthew 5:10-12 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: God has only designed 3 human institutions (1:04)

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April 2

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April 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ps 16:10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; / Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. – According to the apostle Peter, King David (who lived a thousand years before Peter) wrote this verse prophesying of that his descendant the Messiah would be raised from the dead. I say this because Peter quoted part of this psalm on the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem and then said to the assembled crowd: Acts 2:30 “And so, because he was a prophet and knew that GOD HAD SWORN TO HIM WITH AN OATH TO SEAT one OF HIS DESCENDANTS ON HIS THRONE, he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that HE WAS NEITHER ABANDONED TO HADES, NOR DID His flesh SUFFER DECAY.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Peter 2:21-24 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Best-selling Christian authors in ancient times? (0:52)

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April 4
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 13:45-46 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.” – The Bible is filled with heroes: Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Daniel, and many more. But Jesus is the hero of all heroes.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Witness – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: How do you test a religion? (0:06)

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April 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Rom 8:5-8 For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. – In other words: 2 Cor 5:7 …walk by faith, not by sight.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 3:19-21 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus didn’t write a book (0:10)

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April 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ps 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart / Be acceptable in Your sight, / O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer. – Why should we pray this Old Testament prayer? Because the New Testament says this: Luke 6:45 “The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Adam as a Type of Jesus Christ – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: “America’s Sins Lay at the Feet of Its Men” (1:06)

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April 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 15:11 “It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.” – What Isaiah saw in his generation, Jesus saw in His, and we see in ours: Isaiah 6:5 Then I said, “…I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips…”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Philippians 2:9-11 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: “Shepherds for Sale” (0:38)

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April 8

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April 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ps 22:1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? / Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning. – David wrote these words. His most famous descendant recited them in His darkest moment. The 22nd psalm amplified what Job had said long before: Job 13:15 “Though He slay me, / I will hope in Him. / Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him. – Let us therefore be like Jacob who came before Job, and who similarly wrestled with God…and found favor.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Acts 4:11-12 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Daily Help (0:30)

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April 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 16:6 And Jesus said to them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” – These two groups were more familiar with the Scriptures than the general population. Men, let us be found feeding only unleavened bread to our children during our FDTs.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as a Plumb Line – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Who and What Does God Love? (0:09)

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April 11

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April 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ps 31:5 Into Your hand I commit my spirit; / You have ransomed me, O LORD, God of truth. – Jesus recited the first half of this verse while hanging on the cross: Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT.” Having said this, He breathed His last. – Stephen said something similar when he was being stoned to death: Acts 7:59 They went on stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Abel as a Type of Jesus Christ – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Cosa Nostra (1:03)

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April 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.” – That is, following Jesus means denying our self-interests and living for His interests just as He denied His self-interests and lived for the interests of His Father in heaven. In other words: 2 Cor 5:15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 4:39-42 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Synagogues and Churches (1:18)

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April 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Here’s a godly way for us to respond to Paul’s declaration of faith: Hebrews 13:7 Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as a Rock of Offense – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Thessalonica and Berea (0:47)

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April 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ps 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, / But the LORD delivers him out of them all. – Of course, this statement applies to all who live righteously, but its most notable fulfillment was seen in the life of Messiah.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Hebrews 5:7-9 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Being Noble-Minded (0:35)

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April 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 16:25 “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” – Messiah has a life all His own, and He’ll take your life for His in a straight-up trade. You’re never going to find a better bargain than that!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as a Shield – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Some Believe; Some Don’t (0:32)

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April 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; – This is not merely a decision to be made; it is a life to be lived. To declare Jesus to be Lord while continuing to live as before is nonsensical.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Luke 6:46-49 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Ephesians 4:3 (0:25)

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April 18

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April 19

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April 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. – Biblical faith does not exist on its own. It’s in someone and something. The someone is Christ and the something is His word.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as a Star – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 17:13 (0:52)

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April 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ps 40:8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; / Your Law is within my heart. – King David wrote this verse, and it was true of him – but not nearly so true as it would be of his descendant the Messiah.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Timothy 3:14-17 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 17:14 (0:49)

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April 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 18:2-4 And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” – No room for know-it-alls in the kingdom of God!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as a Stone of Stumbling – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 17:15 (1:17)

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April 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 11:32 For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all. – Today’s church leaders would have us believe that these words from Paul should be interpreted to mean: “For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to some.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Deuteronomy 18:15-22 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 17:16 (0:52)

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April 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 41:9 Even my close friend in whom I trusted, / Who ate my bread, / Has lifted up his heel against me. – In this verse, King David – who lived around 1000 BC – was speaking of the past, the present, and the future. That is, he was simultaneously 1) referring back to Satan’s betrayal of God, 2) describing his own experience with Absalom, and 3) prophesying Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Messiah.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Boaz as a Type of Christ – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 17:17 (1:13)

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April 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 18:20 “For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.” – Notice that Jesus did not say, “…I am there in their pope or pastor.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 27:1-6 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ and Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 17:18 (1:00)

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April 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Roman 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. – The life you live is the worship you offer Him.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as God’s Chosen One – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ and Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 17:19 (0:58)

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April 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 45:2 You are fairer than the sons of men; / Grace is poured upon Your lips; / Therefore God has blessed You forever. – A thousand years before humanity would begin to experience the grace of Jesus Christ, that grace was prophesied in this psalm.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Malachi 4:2 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ and Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: The Bible is like a tree (0:53)

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April 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 19:14 But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” – Jesus was stressing to his fellow Jews that the way of Messiah was dramatically easier to understand than the way of Moses. Even a child could follow it.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Coming One – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ and Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:1 The Acts of the Apostles (0:54)

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April 29

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April 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 45:6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; / A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom. – In Hebrews 1:8, the apostle Paul indicates that this psalm – and specifically this very line – was directed to the Messiah. Think about that for a minute.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: David as a Type of Christ – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ and Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:1 “I composed” (0:50)

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May 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 19:30 “But many who are first will be last; and the last, first.” – Why would you want to be a big shot on earth if it’s going to make you a little shot in heaven – especially given that earth is temporary and heaven is permanent? One of the many things that the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus teaches us is that our ultimate field position on earth doesn’t really matter; what matters is the heavenly field position our performance on earth will gain us. Jesus ended His earthly life at the bottom…but it secured Him a position at the top for eternity. As He played for long-term field position, so also should we.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Isaiah 60:1-3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:1 “Theophilus” (1:12)

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May 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 12:3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. – This is an attitude that Messiah came to inculcate in us.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Expected One – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:1 “do and teach” (0:29)

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May 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 45:7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; / Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You / With the oil of joy above Your fellows. – Jesus lived this way…leaving footsteps in the process for us to follow.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Numbers 6:24-26 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:1 “began” (0:42)

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May 4
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 21:22 “And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” – Messiah believed; therefore, He received. Same for us who follow in His steps.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Life – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Creator-Redeemer (0:31)

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May 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. – Insofar as it depended on Him, Messiah was at peace with all men. But He couldn’t make people not want to crucify Him. Neither can you make everyone love you.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Ezekiel 34:23-24 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Who complains most about religious extremists? (0:07)

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May 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 46:10 “Cease striving and know that I am God; / I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” – He’s not being exalted among the nations now…but He will be. Whenever that happens, and as often as that happens, the humble will rejoice, and the proud will wail.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Daniel” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: How do we know that God and man are compatible? (0:09)

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May 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 23:8 “But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers.” – Because Messiah (Christ) says this, I push you to read the Bible for yourself and not just take my word for things.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Luke 5:30-32 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: We get to know Jesus progressively (0:13)

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May 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. – Even though this is the apostle Paul’s sentence, Jesus lived by this idea. We can, too!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is Israel’s Messiah – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Private Property – Not Socialism (0:13)

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May 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 68:18 You have ascended on high, You have led captive Your captives; / You have received gifts among men, / Even among the rebellious also, that the LORD God may dwell there. – David paints a picture with words of the messianic descendant who would one day save the world. You and I live in the world that Messiah saved! Blessed is everyone who follows Him in it.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Luke 18:9-14 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Suffering and Glory (1:43)

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May 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 23:9 “Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.” – Messiah (Christ) did not come to separate us from God, but rather to bring us to God.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Prince – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Duty of a Man (0:09)

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May 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 14:17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. – A man who resists living by the commandments of Jesus is resisting righteousness, peace, joy, and the Holy Spirit. Talk about being one’s own worst enemy!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Matthew 23:8-10 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:2-3 The Ascension (0:33)

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May 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 69:21 They also gave me gall for my food / And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. – King David lived about a thousand years before Messiah (Christ). David was a prophet in addition to being Israel’s king. Notice what the apostle Peter says about the prophetic process: 1 Peter 1:10-12 As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven–things into which angels long to look.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Elijah” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (Elijah was also a type of John the Baptist [Matt 11:14; 17:10-13], but this does not preclude him from being a type of Christ as well. That is, some aspects of Elijah’s life and ministry followed contours indicative of Messiah’s forerunner, and other aspects were indicative of Messiah Himself.)
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:2-3 The Holy Spirit (0:23)

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May 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 23:10 “Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ.” – Jesus was aware that He was fulfilling the messianic prophecies. He seems here to be remembering something the prophet Isaiah wrote: Isaiah 55:4 “Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples, / A leader and commander for the peoples.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Joshua 24:14-15 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:2-3 The Apostles (0:24)

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May 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. – Having a relationship with God is His idea; we do not have to convince Him of our worth.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ is the Messenger – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:2-3 “many convincing proofs” (0:36)

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May 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; / I will utter dark sayings of old, – This is the way the Bible often speaks; therefore, we need to listen carefully and be patient with the process.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Judges 21:25 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:2-3 Jesus gave orders (0:31)

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May 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.” – Notice how the three threads identified by Jesus in this verse – justice, mercy, and faithfulness – line up with three threads identified by the prophet Micah in the Old Testament: Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; / And what does the LORD require of you / But to do justice, to love kindness, / And to walk humbly with your God?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Servant – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:2-3 The Kingdom of God (0:44)

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May 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Corinthians 6:7 Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? – When’s the last time you asked yourself questions like these? Paul obviously expects the Corinthians to go the extra mile as Jesus had taught: Matthew 5:41 “Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Luke 24:25-27 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Acts 1:2-3 Forty Days (0:31)

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May 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 94:2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth, / Render recompense to the proud. – Vengeance is the Lord’s – not ours. Therefore, be not proud! (The proud are cruisin’ for a bruisin’.)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Elisha” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Holy Spirit in the Acts of the Apostles (0:26)

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May 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 24:12 “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.” – Don’t be most people. Remember: Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Luke 24:44-48 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Holy Spirit is the active presence of God (0:14)

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May 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Corinthians 10:24 Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor. – Since this is the way God thinks and behaves, we should, too!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Promised Son of David – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: God is like the air; His Spirit is like the wind (0:11)

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May 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 100:3 Know that the LORD Himself is God; / It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; / We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. – Is it becoming of a creature to act as if he’s greater than his creator? On the contrary – it’s monstrous. That’s what the story of Frankenstein dramatically illustrated.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 5:39-40 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Holy Spirit is given to all who believe through Jesus (0:27)

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May 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.” – So far, He’s been proven true on this, eh? It’s been two thousand years and counting since He said it.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Word of God – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus baptizes in the Holy Spirit and fire (0:14)

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May 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Corinthians 13:13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. – The apostles – like their Master – had a way with words!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Romans 10:17 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Preachers like me baptize you in the Bible (0:09)

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May 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 107:20 He sent His word and healed them, / And delivered them from their destructions. – This Old Testament verse foreshadows the following New Testament verse: John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Enoch” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Priming the Pump (1:40)

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May 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Mark 8:38 “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” – Whoever is ashamed of Jesus in His suffering, Jesus in His glory will be ashamed of him.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Romans 11:22 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Life on earth is dark without… (0:13)

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May 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. – The only people who don’t love this verse are people who don’t love people.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ is the Angel – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The uselessness of pomp (0:30)

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May 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 109:4 In return for my love they act as my accusers; / But I am in prayer. – This is one of the many places in the Psalms where King David writing about his own life is simultaneously prophesying of the life that his descendant – the Messiah (Christ) – will live about a thousand years after David’s.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Peter 3:13-16 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Bible’s red and black letters (0:16)

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May 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Mark 12:17 And Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at Him. – And two thousand years later, we’re still amazed.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Author – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Haman and Mordecai in modern-day America (0:32)

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May 29
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord. – The “Therefore” that begins this sentence refers to the 57 verses of chapter 15 coming before it – verses that establish the certainty of Jesus’ resurrection and His coming in glory. That certainty guarantees that our work in the Lord’s name is not in vain. It’s hard enough to work when it’s not in vain. God forbid we should ever think our work for Him is in vain because He has taken such pains to assure that it won’t be.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Numbers 24:17-19 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What comes after late-stage America? (0:14)

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May 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 110:1 The LORD says to my Lord: / “Sit at My right hand / Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” – This verse is quoted more than 20 times in the New Testament. That’s more than any other Old Testament verse is quoted. This word was fulfilled in the late 1st century AD, shortly after the New Testament writings were finished.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Ezra” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus was promoted from head of the New Testament church to head of… (0:25)

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May 31
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 5:32 “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” – Jesus accepts us as we are, but not for the purpose of leaving us as we are.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Numbers 27:15-19 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The first fruits of the human race (0:47)

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June 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Corinthians 16:13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. – These marching orders are as appropriate for men in the 21st century as they were for men in the 1st century. The Messiah (Christ) deserves no less.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ is the Forerunner – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Friends in High Places (0:21)

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June 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; / A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; / His praise endures forever. – No one ever understood the commandments as well as Messiah, because no one else ever kept them as well.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Deuteronomy 3:27-28 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Oak and the Acorn (0:30)

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June 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 6:27-28 “But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” – Messiah issued decrees no one was expecting.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Heir – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The judgment of generations (0:57)

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June 4

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June 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 117:1 Praise the LORD, all nations; / Laud Him, all peoples! – There was a time when this commandment was only imposed on ancient Israel. Ever since the coming of Messiah (Christ), however, it all applies to all nations.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Hezekiah” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Lord emanates light – we only reflect it (0:11)

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June 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 6:31 “Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.” – Messiah (Christ) doesn’t require us to be geniuses – only obedient.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Chronicles 16:9 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: When the Times Get Darker… (0:11)

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June 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Corinthians 16:22 If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. Maranatha. – I was taught years ago that the word “Maranatha” in 1 Cor 16:22 was Aramaic and meant “Our Lord, come!” (expressing hope in the Lord’s then future coming). Recently, however, I learned that this term is actually two Aramaic words put together and can also mean “Our Lord has come!” (expressing faith in the Lord’s past coming). Since the Lord has indeed come, it’s neat to know that the term  Maranatha can still be a suitable expression! If you’re interested in the linguistic details, see my revised and extended notes on 1 Cor 16:22 in Bible Study Notes (BSN).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Man – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: To Seek the Lord Is to Seek Authority (0:24)

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June 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 118:17 I will not die, but live, / And tell of the works of the LORD. – That is a declaration worthy of Messiah!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Habakkuk 2:4 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: We Come to God through Jesus Christ (0:10)

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June 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 6:35 “But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.” – Messiah (Christ) is giving us the key to live as He did!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Ruler – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Where did Jesus claim to be God? (1:24)

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June 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. – To me, these are some of the most stirring words in the Bible. We get to live for the One who died for us!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Matthew 16:24-26 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Church-fearing men versus God-fearing men (0:11)

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June 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 118:22 The stone which the builders rejected / Has become the chief corner stone. – This is a messianic prophecy – that is, a prophecy of Messiah – that comes in the form of a riddle. It was God’s riddle, and no one figured it out ahead of time. Here’s the riddle broken down:
    “The stone” = The Messiah
    “The builders” = Jewish religious authorities (Pharisees and Sadducees, elders, priests, and scribes) and Roman authorities (Pontius Pilate)
    “rejected” = the beatings, the ridicule, and, most of all, the crucifixion
    “the chief cornerstone” = Messiah (Christ) raised from the dead never to die again
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Isaac” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Central Theme of Jesus’ Teaching Was the Kingdom of God (0:39)

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June 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 6:36 “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” – The only trouble we can get into on this point is failing to show the mercy to others that God has shown to us.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Acts 3:26 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God Is the Administration of God (0:39)

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June 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Corinthians 5:16 Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. – The four Gospels of the New Testament tell what Jesus was like according to the flesh. From Acts through Revelation, He was dealt with according to the spirit. Why in the world would anyone think that the Second Coming would return us to dealing with Him in the flesh – however spectacular – again? We came to know Jesus Christ in the flesh as a man that we might come to know Him in the spirit as Lord and God. And so it will be forevermore.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Savior – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God Is the Government of God (0:39)

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June 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 139:23
    Search me, O God, and know my heart;
    Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
    And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
    And lead me in the everlasting way.
    – He came to see what was in us…and we killed Him for it. But He rose from the dead and kept on loving us anyway. What greater God could we possibly hope to serve!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Jude 1:3-4 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God Is a Domain (0:21)

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June 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 6:40 “A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.” – “When you’re up to your waist in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your original purpose was to drain the swamp.” When we’re swamped with life, let’s be sure to remember that the purpose of our being down here is to become like Jesus.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Sign – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God Is a Yoke (0:37)

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June 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. – He truly gives us a new birth! Let us never return to our old way of life.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Samuel 7:12-14 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God Is the Rule of God (0:25)

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June 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction. – The “fear of the Lord” = reverence for Jesus Christ.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Isaiah” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: “No Creed but the Bible” (0:44)

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June 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 6:45 “The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.” – If you don’t maintain a good heart, you can’t lead a good life. Jesus came to purify our hearts so that we could live a life like His.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Job 8:7 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Apostles’ Creed (0:53)

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June 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. – Did you become more like Him yesterday?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Sower – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Christ Has More Glory than God (0:57)

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June 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart / And do not lean on your own understanding. – If we knew and understood everything, we wouldn’t need to trust anyone. Therefore, our need for faith is rooted in our ignorance, of which we have an abundance – and therefore in that great ignorance we have great room for great faith.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Ecclesiastes 9:13-17 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Christ Has More Glory than the Holy Spirit (0:10)

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June 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 6:46 “Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? – I’ve never heard a good answer to this question.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Standard – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Hebrews 2:1-4 (1:40)

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June 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. – Given the greatness of the Lord’s promises, it really doesn’t seem like He’s asking that much of us. Even if He was promising us nothing, we’d still owe Him our obedience simply because He’s the Creator and we are the creatures.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Hosea 1:10-11 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: 1 Corinthians 1:10 (0:36)

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June 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. – Who is “the LORD”? And who is “the Holy One”? If you said “Jesus” to both questions, you are right!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Jacob” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Separated at Birth (1:14)

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June 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 7:47 “For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little.” – Let’s repent of ALL our sins – not just some of them. That way, we can love Him with ALL our heart – not just some of it.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Joel 2:32 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Apostles Were Like Midwives (0:15)

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June 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. – As they say, “K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple, Stupid!”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Truth – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The glory of the church vis-à-vis the glory of the kingdom of God (0:39)

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June 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Proverbs 30:4
    Who has ascended into heaven and descended?
    Who has gathered the wind in His fists?
    Who has wrapped the waters in His garment?
    Who has established all the ends of the earth?
    What is His name or His son’s name?
    Surely you know!
    -How much of this Old Testament passage could anyone have understood before Jesus came and went? I don’t know. What I do know is that He is the answer to this riddle.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Obadiah 1:15 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The apostles and Noah (0:12)

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June 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 8:11 “Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God. – All seeds are groundbreaking, but none more so than the word of God.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Work of God – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The apostles left no successors (0:29)

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June 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” – The old life was mine; the new one is His. Why do I keep falling back into trying to live the old life when I know from experience that it is only the new one that will work?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Nahum 1:6-7 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The New Testament church was the first fruits of a new human race (0:31)

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June 29
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 2:11 The proud look of man will be abased / And the loftiness of man will be humbled, And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. – Pride has no future.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Jeremiah” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The preeminence of the family (0:07)

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June 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 8:17 “For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.” – Like so many of the things Jesus said, the longer you think about this statement, the more meaning it carries.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Zephaniah 2:3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Sacrifice has a cost (0:32)

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July 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. – John 15:5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Amen – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: “People of the Lie” (1:13)

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July 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 4:2 In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of Israel. – Our pride is in the humble Person Isaiah was prophesying in this verse. (I capitalized the “p” for the same reason that the translators of the NASB capitalized the “b.” #FJOT)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Haggai 2:9 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The kingdom of God is the will of God (0:16)

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July 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 9:23 And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.” – No wonder Paul would later write: 2 Tim 3:12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Associate – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Christianity is the operating system of western civilization, and the nations are its apps (0:29)

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July 4
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. – Paul is echoing an Old Testament prophet: Obadiah 1:15 “For the day of the LORD draws near on all the nations. / As you have done, it will be done to you. / Your dealings will return on your own head.” – And this is why Jesus could say: Matthew 7:12 “In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Luke 2:25-32 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Apostolic Era (0:51)

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July 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 6:9-10
    He said, “Go, and tell this people:
    ‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive;
    Keep on looking, but do not understand.’
    Render the hearts of this people insensitive,
    Their ears dull,
    And their eyes dim,
    Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    Hear with their ears,
    Understand with their hearts,
    And return and be healed.”
    – What does it mean to “Render the hearts of this people insensitive” except to “harden their hearts”? The same sun that melts wax hardens clay. The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. Make sure that the word of God you read or hear every day is softening your heart and not hardening it. That’s within your control.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Job” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Organized Religion? (0:32)

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July 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 10:41-42 But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” – The “one thing” that Mary chose was “listening to His word.” To that, another Mary would add, “Whatever He says to you, do it” – John 2:5.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: We Are Heirs of the Prophets (0:40)

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July 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ephesians 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, – Children learn how to speak the truth in love from noticing how their parents speak. If we don’t learn to speak the truth in love at home, how are we going to speak that way anywhere else?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Champion – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Bible Has Great Explanatory Power (0:55)

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July 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.” – The prophet Isaiah wrote this more than 700 years before that child was born. God is patient.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: “The Lord Is God!” from 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 (0:56)

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July 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Verse of the Day: Luke 11:13 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” – To be given the Holy Spirit is to be given the ability to, among other things, hear the voice of God in your heart.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Deliverer – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: “The Nearness of God Is My Good” – Psalm 73:28 (1:00)

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July 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another. – (The all caps portion is the translator’s way of telling us that Paul is quoting from the prophet Zechariah 8:16.) – Because we live in an age that is typified by liars and lying, following this command takes more effort than we might first imagine.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Colossians 2:1-3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Loves Us Too Much to Tell Us We’re Good (0:53)

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July 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 8:14 “Then He shall become a sanctuary; But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.” – Isaiah is prophesying that God would come to earth…disguised as one of us. Because people didn’t know it was Him, some “struck” Him and “stumbled over” Him while others found Him to be a “sanctuary.” In the 2,000 years that have passed since then, people can still be divided into those who reject Him and those who accept Him. That God is so polarizing should tell us something about ourselves.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Jonah” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Reverence for Jesus is the beginning of knowledge (0:54)

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July 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 12:15 Then He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.” – We typically associate the word “greed” with money, but Jesus is alerting us to the fact that greed comes in different “forms.” For example, gluttony is a form of greed. Another form of greed is lust. Greed is an unwillingness to be satisfied. All God-given needs can be satisfied with God’s provision. Greed, therefore, is a form of rebellion against God and His ways.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Hebrews 2:14-18 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: “Up from Slavery” (0:54)

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July 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ephesians 4:29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. – Rather than commenting on this verse, may I just ask that you re-read it?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Lawgiver – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Word “Crucified” Is Icky (0:57)

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July 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 9:2 The people who walk in darkness will see a great light; those who live in a dark land, the light will shine on them. – Isaiah prophesied in the 8th century BC. In the 1st century AD, the fulfillment of his prophecy was that the light was the man Jesus and the land was Galilee. In the 21 century, the light is still Jesus who now shines from heaven as God, and the land is the whole earth. This fulfillment is eternal and it is what the Bible teaches. Don’t walk in darkness!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Hebrews 12:1-3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: God or Jesus? (0:56)

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July 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 12:47-48 “And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.” – No one knows better than Jesus what you are capable of believing and doing for Him today. There is no way He is going to expect more from you than you are able to give Him. Likewise, there’s no way He’s going to accept any less. The peace and joy of your soul today rides not on what circumstances you encounter but solely on living up to that of which you are currently capable.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is Our Peace – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What is the foundation of western civilization? (0:48)

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July 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ephesians 4:32 Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. – The family that forgives together, lives together.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Peter 1:10-12 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Ancient Israel versus Modern Israel (0:57)

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July 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. – It is in Christ (Messiah) and Him alone that we find our God and Father. Do not consider Him a victim of arrested development, for He who was born as a child eventually became a father…once again. That’s why Isaiah preceded the word “Father” with the word “Eternal.” The Father lost us to the devil for a time (John 8:44), but paid the ransom of Himself to win us back (Mark 10:45).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Joseph” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Are We in the Last Days? (1:01)

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July 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 16:10 “He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.” – We can know how we will perform in the clutch by noticing how we’re performing when we’re we’re not in the clutch.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 3 John 1:1-4 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: From One Tyrant to Countless Tyrants! (1:01)

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July 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ephesians 5:1-2 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. – In other words, Paul is telling us, “Don’t be stinkers!”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as “The Begotten” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What is being neglected while church is being attended? (1:00)

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July 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 11:1 Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit. – In the 8th century before Christ (that is, B.C.), Isaiah prophesies His coming. God is faithful to His promises. Let us be faithful to ours.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Judges 16:1-3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Downward Spiral in Romans 1 (1:01)

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July 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 16:15 And [Jesus] said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.” – This would include the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards, all the Halls of Fame that exist, and so much more. Jesus calls us to fully adopt His value system.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Foundation – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Is the Hook to God (0:59)

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July 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ephesians 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. – The apostles were weak in the flesh – no army behind them, no security detail around them, not even any weapons when they stood before angry mobs. But Paul and his fellow apostles changed the world…and we are still studying their words two thousand years later.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Song of Solomon 1:3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus AND the Bible! (0:57)

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July 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 11:10 Then in that day, the nations will resort to the root of Jesse, who will stand as a signal for the peoples; and His resting place will be glorious. – We live in that day! It’s an eternal day that will never turn to night. It’s the day of the Lord…and Jesus Christ is that Lord.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Joshua” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: All Bible Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled in Jesus Christ (0:52)

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July 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 17:10 “So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.'” – Our narcissistic age is so far from this attitude that the gap is immeasurable. We want a pat on the back for not spitting on the sidewalk.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Amos 9:10-12 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Everyone Is Going to Heaven (0:53)

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July 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. – Grace dries up if our love for Jesus grows cold. Let us always be returning to our first love! He died on a cross for us – what have we done for Him?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Judge – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Christ Has Already Come Again (0:56)

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July 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 22:21 And I will clothe him with your tunic and tie your sash securely about him. I will entrust him with your authority, and he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. – In this verse, Isaiah the prophet foreshadows how the Messiah will become Lord (“I will entrust him with your authority”) and Father (“he will become a father…”). Jesus was made Lord at His first coming and Father at His second.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Jonah 2:1-10 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Don’t reject the purpose God has for you. (1:01)

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July 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 17:20-21 Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.” – This statement by Jesus explains why His second coming – which was the coming of the kingdom of God – was never going to be viewed physically. Walking with God is not a spectator sport.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Living One – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Three Times Jesus Said His Second Coming Would Be in the First Century (1:01)

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July 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Phil 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. – Could there be a pithier, truer, more helpful motto for life on this earth?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Mark 1:1 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Everyone Needs to Re-Read the Bible (0:51)

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July 29
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 22:22 “Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, when he opens no one will shut, when he shuts no one will open.” – In the book of Revelation, the resurrected and heavenly Jesus declares this 8th-century BC prophecy of Isaiah’s as fulfilled in the 1st century AD when He says through His angel to the apostle John, son of Zebedee, “He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:” (Rev 3:7)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Judah” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Abolition of Death (0:53)

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July 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 18:8 “…when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” – It’s clear from this rhetorical question that Jesus was not going be surprised when the majority of people called by His name would not have sufficient faith to recognize His Second Coming once it occurred. Even today, how often do we have sufficient faith to recognize God’s answers to our prayers when those answers come? (Jeremiah 17:5-6) Faith does not make God do things; it is the means by which we come to see things God has done.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Thessalonians 3:16 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What Constantine Called Deathlessness (0:51)

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July 31
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; – (Tell me what love means without using the word love.)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Redeemer – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Who can give you a future unburdened by the past? (0:51)

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August 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 22:23 “I will drive him like a peg in a firm place, and he will become a throne of glory to his father’s house.” – The “firm place” was not earth, not Calvary (Golgotha) – that is, not the Jerusalem that was on earth. Rather, Messiah’s throne was the Jerusalem in heaven! The place we cannot see is much firmer than the place we can see. This is for the same reason that the God we cannot see is more reliable than the people we can see.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Titus 2:11-12 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: An Ancient Man for Modern People, An Ancient Book for Modern Life (0:58)

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August 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 18:27 But [Jesus] said, “The things that are impossible with people are possible with God.” – Modern secularists aren’t very impressed by such a statement because they think so few things are impossible to them. After all, if you think men can become women, what can’t you do?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Resurrection – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus was a man, and the Bible was the word of men…but there’s more to it than just that (0:58)

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August 3

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August 4
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 22:24 “So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, offspring and issue, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars.” – This part of Isaiah’s prophecy of Messiah speaks of His second coming, at which point “all” the glory of his father’s house will be his. This is when Jesus returned to His place as God and Father of all. (Don’t get hung up on the capitalization of nouns and pronouns; remember that when the Bible texts were written, no upper/lower case distinctions were made. Also, remember that Jesus was both God and man, so both lower and upper case usage can be justified in modern times.)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Melchizedek” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Bible Is Not Just for Christians (0:58)

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August 5

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August 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Philippians 2:8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. – Why do we struggle with becoming obedient to the point of inconvenience if we have a Savior who became obedient to the point of death?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Door – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Bible Is the Handiwork of God (0:57)

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August 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, and He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for the LORD has spoken. – If a man doesn’t believe that everyone is going to heaven, he’s just not taking Bible verses like this one seriously. What good would it do for God to “swallow up death” if a fate worse than death was a possibility in the afterlife?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Leviticus 19:17-18 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Bible Is a Jewish Production (0:57)

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August 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 22:20 And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.” – The old covenant was secured by the blood of animals – creatures less valuable than human beings. The new covenant was secured by the blood of someone more valuable than human beings.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Galilean – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: A Non-Churchgoer’s Guide to Jesus (0:58)

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August 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Philippians 2:10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, – Of all the movies and tv shows you have ever watched, what percentage of them would you estimate that the name of Jesus was spoken in honor versus the percentage in which the name of Jesus was spoken without honor? As you do this, notice how few movies and tv shows do not include the name of Jesus at all. The majority of the time they’re either cursing His name or blessing it.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Ruth 1:15-18 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Is Lord, and the Bible Is His Word (0:58)

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August 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed. – Isaiah prophesied this in the 8th century BC. The apostles proclaimed that Jesus had fulfilled this prophecy, and, more specifically, that the “Zion” in view was the heavenly one – not the earthly one. That is, Jesus brought to the Jews – and then to the rest of us – the kingdom of heaven. It is only in looking at our earthly lives through this heavenly lens that life can begin to make sense.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Mordecai” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: If It Bleeds, It Leads (0:58)

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August 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 23:34 But Jesus was saying, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves. – The juxtaposition of these two sentences indicates just how hard human hearts can become.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Ezra 7:10 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Read the Bible for Yourself (0:54)

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August 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Philippians 3:8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, – This verse reminds me of the old adage about foolish people who know the price of everything but the value of nothing. Paul knew the value of Christ. May we know it, too!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ the Jew – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Read the New Testament First (0:53)

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August 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 30:20 Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. – Think of the patience of the faithful Jews who waited – generation after generation – to see this prophecy of Isaiah be fulfilled. The least we – who do not have to wait at all – can do is believe that it happened just as the apostles and their helpers reported in their writings, which came to be called the New Testament.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Nehemiah 13:2 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Worship Jesus Privately Before You Proclaim Him Publicly (0:58)

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August 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT.” Having said this, He breathed His last. – Jesus wasn’t planning to stay dead.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as a Lion – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Something Greater than Church Is Here (0:55)

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August 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Philippians 3:12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. – Jesus laid hold of Paul not just because he loved Paul, but because He loved us, too. Likewise, Jesus did not lay hold of you because He loved only you, but because He also wants to love others through you – those others first and foremost being your wife and children.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Esther 4:13-14 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Was the Messiah…and the Messiah Is God (0:57)

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August 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 33:6 And He will be the stability of your times, a wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is his treasure. – Isaiah is prophesying of the stabilizing force Jesus Christ would be in the world. At present, we see the western world very much de-stabilized…and this is a result of its current rejection of Jesus Christ.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Moses” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Have You Made Your Decision about the New Testament? (0:59)

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August 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 24:25 And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!“ – If Jesus feels this way about the prophets (authors of the Old Testament), would He feel any differently about the apostles (authors of the New Testament)?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Jeremiah 29:11 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Identity Religion Is as Bad as Identity Politics (0:59)

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August 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. – Aren’t you glad it’s not a downward or sideways call? Earthly troubles become more bearable when you keep your mind on where you’re headed.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ the Nazarene – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: A Better Baptism (0:51)

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August 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 33:22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us. – Notice how this Old Testament verse is echoed in this New Testament verse: James 4:12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Lamentations 3:39-40 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: A Better Communion (0:56)

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August 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 24:26 “Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?” – The Messiah was willing to experience suffering on earth so that He could experience glory in heaven. Women are willing to experience the suffering of childbirth so that they can experience the glory of bringing another human being into the world. There is no wisdom in being masochistic, but there is wisdom in not being short-sighted. Earth is temporary – heaven is forever.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Well – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: We Have Something Eve Did Not Have (0:56)

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August 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! – Can a slave be happy? Yes, indeed…if his authority figure is Jesus.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Timothy 1:5 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Bare Minimum Christianity (0:60)

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August 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. – Isaiah here prophesied that Messiah would not remain prone in the ground…but would stand forever.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Nehemiah” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Prepping for Calamity (0:56)

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August 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 24:44 Now [Jesus] said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” – The apostles had no need of the New Testament. The Old Testament was all the documentation they needed. We today most certainly need both testaments, but the apostles and those to whom they preached did not.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Timothy 1:8-11 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Christ Is the Eschatological God (1:00)

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August 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Philippians 4:6-7 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. – We should either turn away from anxiety or from the book of Philippians. The two are not compatible.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Great King – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Why I Will Keep Using the Name Twitter (0:58)

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August 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 40:11 Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, in His arm He will gather the lambs and carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes. – Isaiah wrote this in the 8th century BC. In the 1st century AD, Jesus of Nazareth said, “I am the good shepherd…” (John 10:11).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Peter 4:1-5 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Fatherhood of Christ and the Brotherhood of Man (0:59)

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August 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 24:45-47 Then [Jesus] opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.” – Not a single page of the New Testament had been written when Jesus spoke this sentence. It refers entirely to the Old Testament. Of course, the New Testament makes these same points even more explicitly – even as it is doing in these very words. But the point is that a biography of Jesus was written before He was born.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ, the King of Israel – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Feast of Unleavened Bread (0:58)

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August 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. – Sad to say, many people read this verse as if it said, “I can do whatever I want to do through Him who strengthens me.” But this would make us the lord and Jesus the slave. It’s supposed to be the other way around.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Revelation 1:17-18 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: They Want the Fruit without the Root (0:56)

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August 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 42:1 “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.” – Isaiah is prophesying that Jesus of Nazareth would “bring forth justice to the nations.” Alas, though our nation once received Him, it now rejects Him. Woe to us as a nation, but blessed are the men and their families who cling to Him.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Noah” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Granddaddy of All Temptations (0:59)

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August 29
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” – Only when we realize we have been dead men walking can we begin to appreciate what Jesus is saying here.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Genesis 18:20-21 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Whatever Became of Jesus Christ? (1 minute)

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August 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Colossians 1:15 [Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. – Notice how well Paul’s words fit with John’s: John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the King of the Jews – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: When God Wants to Do Something Really Big He Starts Really Small (1 minute)

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August 31
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 50:6 I gave My back to those who strike Me, and My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting. – This is the kind of treatment Isaiah experienced in his own generation, and the Spirit of the Lord led him to use that experience to prophesy of what Messiah would experience about eight centuries later. This is why Isaiah could elsewhere write, speaking of himself and his fellow prophets, “In all their affliction He was afflicted…” (Isaiah 63:9).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Exodus 20:1-17 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Why Do I Love the NASB? (0:58)

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September 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 4:22 “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.” – So says the foremost Jew who ever walked the earth.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the King of the Nations – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Know Who, Why, and What I Believe (0:58)

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September 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Colossians 2:6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, – As we accepted Him by faith, so we should live before Him by faith.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Samuel 10:24-27 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Beware of Universalism (0:58)

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September 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 52:13 Behold, My servant will prosper He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted. – Isaiah is here prophesying of Messiah’s resurrection from the dead and ascension back to the heights of heaven. This sure didn’t appear to the be the likely outcome when He was hanging on that cross – but God had a promise to keep! Never doubt a promise of God just because it appears unlikely to be fulfilled.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Samson” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Blessing of Christ Is Spread by Teaching (0:59)

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September 4
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 4:24 “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” – Worship in Moses’ tabernacle, Solomon’s temple, synagogues, and churches were all just foreshadowings of the day when we would worship God in the house that is His creation. That day is now, and it is the day of Jesus Christ. (Phil 1:6, 10; 2:16)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Kings 19:9-12 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Body of Christ Is the Human Race (0:58)

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September 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. – This is direction and promise is a fulfillment of Psalm 23’s promise: “He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the King of Peace – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Care and Feeding of the Human Soul (0:54)

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September 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 52:14 Just as many were astonished at you, My people, so His appearance was marred more than any man and His form more than the sons of men. – No wonder Jesus’ disciples didn’t immediately recognize Him during the 40 days He spent on earth after His brutal crucifixion.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Kings 20:1-7 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Bible’s Chain of Custody (0:58)

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September 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 4:25-26 The [Samaritan] woman said to Him [Jesus], “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” – This exchange is taking place in a private conversation at a public well near a city in Samaria. Jews and Samaritans had been waiting on the Messiah for centuries. The woman surely must have been at least momentarily stupefied by this response.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the King of Righteousness – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: God Made a Name for Himself (0:60)

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September 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Timothy 1:5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. – What Paul writes to Timothy in this sentence speaks also for all the prophets and apostles who wrote the Bible to all of us who read it.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Chronicles 11:15-19 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: America RIP (0:59)

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September 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 52:15 Thus He will sprinkle many nations, kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; for what had not been told them they will see, and what they had not heard they will understand. – Jesus has sprinkled many nations with His blood, washing away their sins and calling them to obedience. This has been accomplished by the preaching of the gospel. But some nations won’t listen, and some only listen for a while before falling away. Remember the parable of the sower (Matt 13; Mark 4; Luke 8).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Saul” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Antichrist in America (0:57)

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September 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 5:39 “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;“ – The Scriptures of which Jesus spoke in this sentence were what we call the Old Testament. The more we obey Jesus, the better we come to know Him. And the better we know Him, the more frequently we find Him in the Old Testament.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Proverbs 30:4 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Metastasized Secularism (0:53)

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September 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Timothy 1:15 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. – From the way this sentence is constructed, we can conclude that Paul was not trying to convince Timothy that Paul was the worst sinner of all. Rather, the beginning of the sentence about “a trustworthy statement deserving full acceptance” indicates that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all” was a saying that believers in that day individually adopted to keep their hearts right. We can do the same. And it’s not false humility. I can honestly write to you that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I, Mike Gantt, am foremost of all” because I know my sins to a degree I could never know yours or anyone else’s. The same is true for every human being. If we are sufficiently aware of our own sins, we will never have a problem forgiving someone else of theirs.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Head – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Battlefield of the Mind (0:55)

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September 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. – Isaiah is prophesying of the Messiah. How remarkable that no one would be able to detect the Savior of the world by His looks!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Micah 6:8 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Be a Doer before Becoming a Teacher (0:44)

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September 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.” – Notice how this statement dovetails with this one from the Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” We who go to the Bible to learn about the life of Jesus Christ find a feast of righteousness. Don’t be starved for righteousness – instead, feed on the King of Righteousness (Heb 7:1-2).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Image of God – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Beware of the Leaven of the Jews and Christians (1:01)

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September 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Timothy 2:5-6 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. – We read the Bible every day if for no other reason but to remind ourselves of what it cost Him to bring us back to Himself.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Matthew 18:1-4 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Why Do I Love the 1995 Version of the NASB? (1:01)

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September 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. – Isaiah prophesies that God’s Messiah would not have an easy life.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Seth” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Aunt Millie’s Recipe for German Chocolate Cake (1:01)

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September 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 6:37 “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.” – I lean hard on the second half of that sentence.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Luke 19:10 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Is the Editor of the Bible (0:57)

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September 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Timothy 3:12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. – Paul knew this better than most people because he had been a notorious persecutor before he became notoriously persecuted.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Intercessor – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Is the Author of Faith (0:55)

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September 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. – The prophet Isaiah describes the crucifixion of Messiah eight centuries before it happened.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 11:28-29 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Bible Is a Body (0:55)

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September 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 6:51 “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.” – Blessed are those who awaken every morning hungry for more of Jesus.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Master – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What Is a Bible Thumper? (0:44)

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September 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Timothy 3:14-15 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. – So much worth pondering in just this one sentence! For one thing, the Bible you have in your house = “the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” + the books of the New Testament that Timothy did not have.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 14:27 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Should the Bible Be Taken Literally? (0:56)

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September 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. – Throughout his 53 chapter, Isaiah paints a vivid picture – eight centuries in advance – of Jesus suffering for our sins.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Solomon” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: We’ve Got to Get Back to the Bible (0:58)

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September 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'” – What a promise!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 16:33 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Bible Is a Corpus – But Not a Corpse! (0:60)

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September 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. – The “who” of the Bible is the Lord Jesus Christ; the “what” is righteousness. We study the “who” daily in order to do the “what” daily. Those who claim to know Jesus while living unrighteously are liars.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Mediator – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Biggest Problems in the World Are Sin and Death (0:51)

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September 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him. – This prophecy of Isaiah’s from the Old Testament (8th century BC) was, of course, fulfilled by Jesus in the New Testament (1st century AD): John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in the Acts of the Apostles 2:22-24 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Centrality of Jesus Christ – Not God – in the Bible (0:51)

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September 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 8:12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” – This statement explains so much! (If that’s not obvious to you, you must be walking in darkness.)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is Our Beer-lahai-roi – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Christianity Is about Christ – Not Christians (0:54)

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September 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Titus 3:14 Our people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful. – The word “pressing” in this instruction provides a helpful filter. You can’t do everything.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Romans 1:1-7 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Worship and Serve the Lord IN YOUR HOUSE! (1:01)

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September 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth; like a lamb that is led to slaughter, and like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, so He did not open His mouth. – Isaiah prophesied of how Messiah would go to His death. Ecclesiastes 3:7 says there is “a time to be silent and a time to speak.” According to this wisdom, Jesus had spoken throughout His ministry, but kept silent when the world decided it had had enough of Him.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Israel” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Confess Your Own Sins – Not Someone Else’s (0:57)

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September 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 8:23-24 And [Jesus] was saying to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” – Those words apply to you and me in the 21st century just as surely as they applied to the 1st-century Jews with whom Jesus was speaking.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Romans 16:25-27 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Dried Ink Doesn’t Move (0:59)

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September 29
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 1:1-2 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. – This is a mouthful. I’ve been chewing on it for years. Even with all I have digested from it, I know I have not come to the end of the nutrition it offers.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Apostle – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The New Testament might as well be engraved into a granite wall (0:56)

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September 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? – Isaiah prophesied that the ones who sinned and therefore deserved to die would kill the only one among them who had not sinned and therefore did not deserve to die. This, of course, happened most dramatically and most importantly with Jesus dying on the cross. But it’s a dynamic that still occurs…and is seen most dramatically and frequently these days in the abortion holocaust.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Why don’t you read the Bible for yourself and try to prove me wrong? (0:34)

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October 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 8:31-32 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” – Big “If.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ is the Beloved Son – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Educating the Conscience (0:50)

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October 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 2:3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?… – Good question, don’t you think? The Lord gave Noah the blueprints for the ark…but Noah and his family had to build it and get in it.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Peter 1:13-16 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Calibrating the Conscience (0:45)

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October 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:9 His grave was assigned with wicked men, yet He was with a rich man in His death, because He had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His mouth. – Roughly eight centuries after Isaiah wrote these words, Jesus of Nazareth would be crucified between two criminals (Matt 27:38), while afterward his dead body would be claimed and buried on the property of a rich man named Joseph of Arimathea. How did Isaiah know?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: A Type of Jesus Christ: “Zaphenath-paneah” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Limitations of Conscience (0:58)

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October 4
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 8:34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.” – Why are people today more concerned about the current effects of past physical slavery than the current effects of current spiritual slavery?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Genesis 11:5 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Conscience and the Word of God (0:60)

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October 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. – It can happen to any of us. Be on guard! If your faith falls, pick it back up!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Bread of the Presence – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Your Conscience and God’s Conscience (0:57)

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October 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:10 But the LORD was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief; if He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. – Isaiah is here giving us one of those prophetic riddles – like Ps 118:22 where the rejected stone becomes the corner stone. In Is 53:10 the riddle how a crushed one put to grief could see see his offspring and prosper. The answer to both riddles is Messiah’s crucifixion and resurrection.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Genesis 12:1-3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What Is Your Primary Point of Reference? (0:59)

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October 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” – “A lunatic, a liar, or Lord?”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Healer – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Why Did Jesus Delay Going to Lazarus? (0:59)

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October 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 4:2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard. – The union must be ongoing.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Matthew 5:1-2 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: God Revealed Himself to the World by Clothing Himself with Christ (0:51)

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October 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:11 As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; by His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, as He will bear their iniquities. – What Isaiah prophesied, Jesus fulfilled: Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as God’s Right Hand Man – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Hey, Man, Where Is Your Family? (1:01)

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October 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 9:5 “While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.” – Now that He is back in heaven, it is we who follow Him who are that light in the world. This is because we see by faith His light in heaven and that light reflects off of us to the world as reflectors embedded in a highway reflect back the automobile headlights that shine upon them. They cannot see Him for they do not have faith, but they cannot fail to see us because we are right there before their eyes. For Jesus says to His disciples, “You are the light of the world” (Matt 5:14). When we die, our lights also will be extinguished in the world’s eyes – but if we have effectively lit our children with faith in Christ, their lights will continue to bear witness to Him.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Luke 17:20-21 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Family Is the Church, and the Man Is the Pastor (0:58)

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October 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. – Sometimes the Bible uses “the word of God” in its plain and simple sense; other times, it is a title of Jesus – that is, the phrase refers to Jesus as the embodiment or personification of the word of God (as in John 1:1). And then there are occasions where both senses of the term apply.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Altar – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Get Right with God by Getting Right with the Lord Jesus Christ (0:56)

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October 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 53:12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the booty with the strong; because He poured out Himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He Himself bore the sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors. – This is the concluding verse of Isaiah 53 – the Old Testament chapter written in the 8th century BC that reads like a video of Jesus’ death for us on the cross. As someone who would know, the apostle John who was an eyewitness to that crucifixion put it in his 1st century AD Gospel: These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him. (John 12:41)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 17:20 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Glorious Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ Is the Best-Kept Secret in the World (0:46)

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October 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 10:7 So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.” – Jesus will expand on this thought a little later in John’s Gospel when He says: John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” Jesus was humble…but also honest. No man was ever so humble; neither was any man ever so honest. That’s why people reacted to Him – and still react to Him – in this way: John 7:46 …”Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Breakthrough! – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: God Concealed Himself in Christ That He Might Reveal Himself in Christ (0:53)

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October 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 4:13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. – Therefore, “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:1)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Acts 3:17-25 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: God Is…and He Is in Christ (0:53)

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October 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 55:4 “Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.” – This messianic prophecy. Jesus did indeed turn out to be a witness, a leader, and a commander for people – us included, of course.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Lord of All – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Gospel of Jesus Christ Is Worthy of Our Attention! (0:54)

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October 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 10:9 “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.” – The good Shepherd is more than a shepherd. No one metaphor can convey a complete expression of who He is to us.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Romans 14:17 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Holy Spirit Is Better than Any Other Memory Aid (1:00)

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October 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 4:16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. – What an invitation! When I was in business, clout was always determined by who would take your call.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Lord of the Harvest – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: A Purpose of the Bible Is to Make Us Sure of the Holy Spirit (0:59)

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October 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners; – About eight centuries after the prophet Isaiah wrote these words, a man would stand up in Nazareth’s synagogue, read these words from a scroll to the assembled congregation, and then say, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” (Luke 4:16-21)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 15:20-22 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Holy Spirit Is for Holy Living (0:55)

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October 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.” – This is why a man lays down his life for his family – that is, his wife and children.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Most High – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Actualize the Lordship of Christ (0:58)

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October 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 5:9 And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, – This is why it is right to call Jesus both “Lord” (“obey”) and “Savior” (“salvation”). The more we obey, the more salvation we experience.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Philippians 3:14 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Dust Off Your Family Bible (0:56)

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October 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Jeremiah 9:23-24 Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD. – “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Revelation – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Read a Bible You Can Understand (0:59)

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October 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 10:14 “I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,” – As a dog knows its owner, so we know the Lord. And as a dog understands its owner, so we understand the Lord. In other words, there’s probably as big a gap between my mind and God’s as between my dog’s mind and mine. But that’s okay with me because I’m just glad my owner is home and willing to teach me to fetch. (I like the treats.)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Hebrews 1:1-2 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: God Is Dead – Long Live God! (0:59)

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October 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 8:6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. – In this verse, Paul is reminding his fellow Jewish believers in Christ that – according to the promises of God in the Old Testament – Jesus the Christ (Messiah) has brought Jews a new and better covenant than the one instituted by Moses. One thing that makes the new covenant better than the old is that the new promises apply to Gentiles as well as Jews, whereas the old covenant applied to Jews only.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Ark of the Covenant – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: God Is Dead – Long Live Christ! (1:00)

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October 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure His indignation. – Jeremiah knew what was coming because he knew who was coming.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Peter 3:1-2 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Christ Is God 2.0 (0:57)

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October 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” – I do.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Ark of Noah – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Son of God Is Our God (1:00)

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October 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul. – Don’t shrink back – be a valiant man! Like David, run straight at the giant and take him down!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Revelation 2:4-5 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Greatest Generation of All (0:58)

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October 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Jeremiah 23:5 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.” – Jeremiah prophesies Jesus – the king of the kingdom of God. He reigns to this day – and will reign forevermore!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as “the Child” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Heir (0:57)

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October 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 12:32 “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.” – Everyone is going to heaven. Resistance may work for a while…but ultimately it’s futile.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 1 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Son of God Is My God (0:53)

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October 29
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. – This verse primarily speaks of the conviction we have that Jesus of Nazareth is the resurrected and ascended Messiah of Israel and Savior of the world…as the first lines of the next chapter in Hebrews make clear.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Exodus – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Has Left Us All That He Had (0:58)

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October 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Jeremiah 31:31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, – The prophet Jeremiah lived from around 650 to 570 BC. In this verse, he speaks for the Lord about what His visitation to the earth as Jesus of Nazareth in the 1st century AD would achieve – a new covenant with His people which would benefit all mankind for all time!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 2 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Can God Get Prophecy Right but Not History? (0:53)

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October 31
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 13:8 Peter said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.” – Jesus is not here just to tell us what to do; He’s also here to forgive us and clean us up when we don’t.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is our Refuge – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: We Know God through Christ, and Christ through History (0:59)

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November 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. – God wants to be trusted. Is He asking too much?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Matthew 5:17-19 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: These Truths Are Biblically and Logically Evident (0:58)

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November 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Jeremiah 33:15 ‘In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth. – Six centuries in advance, God made this announcement that He was going to be opening a branch office on earth (Jesus of Nazareth).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Seer – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: If You Can’t Acknowledge Jesus as a Man, How…as God? (0:52)

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November 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 13:13 “You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.” – Jesus doesn’t just tell us what to do (lord); He explains why and how we should do it (teacher).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Luke 10:38-42 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Indeed, Has God Said…? (0:57)

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November 4
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. – The “great…cloud of witnesses” refers to all the heroes of faith Paul had cataloged in the previous chapter of this letter – Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, and so on. They are in the stands and we are on the field. They had their time; this is our time. Let’s give them something to cheer about!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the First Fruits – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Accusations Against Jesus (0:54)

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November 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ezekiel 34:23 “Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.” – No wonder Jesus said, “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life…” (John 6:54)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 7:37-39 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Made Difficult Statements (0:54)

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November 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” – Take it to heart.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ, the High Priest – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Is All of God (0:58)

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November 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrew 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. – He always was. He always is. And He always will be.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Acts 26:22-23 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Jesus Christ and the Bible (0:55)

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November 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Ezekiel 37:24 “My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.” – Ezekiel was one of the priests taken captive in the exile of Jerusalem to Babylon in the 6th century. Thus this messianic prophecy was a real long shot. (David’s name is being invoked in this way because he was a type of the Messiah to come – and God had also said that David would be an ancestor of Messiah just as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were designated as ancestors of Messiah.)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ the Rabbi – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Joining Jesus (0:56)

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November 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” – It’s an indictment of humanity that all it takes to make you stick out in a crowd is being a practicing student of Jesus.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Romans 15:4 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The King’s Man Must Be about the King’s Business (0:56)

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November 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hebrews 13:20-21 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. – Lots to chew on here. One thing: Moses worked on the outward behavior of Israelites, but Jesus works on the inward thought patterns of us all.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Pearl of Great Price – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Patriarchy Is from God but Slavery Is from Man (0:54)

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November 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Daniel 7:13-14 “I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven one like a Son of Man was coming, and He came up to the Ancient of Days and was presented before Him, and to Him was given dominion, glory and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations and men of every language might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away; and His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed.” – The prophet Daniel lived in the 6th century BC. When Daniel wrote “…He came up to…” he was prophesying the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and His ascension into heaven 40 days later.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Timothy 3:12 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Pharisees and Sadducees of Today (1:00)

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November 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” – This verse brings another to mind: John 7:46 The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.”
  • A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Physician – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Practicing Christianity in the Eternal Age (0:57)

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November 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: James 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. – This wonderful promise speaks to a lack with which every conscientious parent is all too familiar.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Hebrews 2:1-4– a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Priming the Pump (0:58)
  • Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.

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November 14

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November 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 14:15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” – “If” is such a little word, but it’s always the most important word of any sentence that includes it.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Peter 1:16 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Unbelief Spoils Everything (0:56)

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November 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: James 1:21 Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. – Given the context, when James writes “the word” he obviously means “the word of God.” For “the word” you can, therefore, substitute “the Bible” or “the red letters” or “Jesus Himself” or “a word you received by the Holy Spirit.” Any of these work because they are all the word of God.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Perfecter – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Visitation (0:58)

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November 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a youth I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son. – In the 8th century BC, the prophet Isaiah spoke for the Lord, using a description of Israel’s past to foretell something about Messiah’s future. In other words, Hosea 11:1 was fulfilled in Matthew 2:14-15 So Joseph got up and took the Child and His mother while it was still night, and left for Egypt. He remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: “OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Revelation 3:19 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: X (1:00)

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November 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.” – What soothing words…especially coming from Him!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Signal – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: XL (1:01)

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November 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. – Secularism is a rejection of this precept.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Samuel 14:14 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Happy Wife, Happy Life (0:58)

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November 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Obadiah 1:15 “For the day of the LORD draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.” – The book of the prophet Obadiah is the shortest of all the books in the Old Testament: one chapter consisting of just 21 verses. But Obadiah packs a wallop in verse 15. God judges us according to the way we have judged others. And, by the way, the day of the Lord is the day in which we live…so beware of how you judge others.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ is the Sunrise – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Why Do They Call This the 21st Century? (0:56)

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November 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 15:5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.” – To achieve this state – abiding in Him – all you have to do is live for Him instead of for your self. This is simple, but not easy. What’s easy is living for yourself. It’s easy because it’s what you’ve been doing since the day you were born…without even thinking about it or choosing to do so. It’s called narcissism, and it’s the way we all came into the world. To reverse that course is simple, but hard. Most people, even of those who attempt it, fail to achieve it. But it is within your grasp.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 117 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: BC or BCE? (1:00)

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November 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: James 4:12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy… – Jesus.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ is the Tabernacle – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The One True Man Is the One True God (0:59)

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November 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Micah 2:13 “The breaker goes up before them; / They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. / So their king goes on before them, / And the LORD at their head.” – The prophet Micah lived roughly 740-670 BC. Here he prophesies of Jesus the Messiah. Jesus broke out of Sheol (Hades) at His resurrection; the dead followed Him out at His Second Coming.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Proverbs 4:18 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Treasure Map Is Not the Treasure (1:00)

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November 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 15:7 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” – It doesn’t sound like He’s holding anything back.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Temple of God – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Sin and Death (0:55)

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November 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. – His first coming, which was in the flesh, revealed Him to be the Son of God; His second coming, which was in the spirit, revealed Him to be God Himself – Father of all. That’s maximal grace!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Matthew 6:1 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Why are people today so afraid of the word “theocracy”? (0:37)

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November 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Micah 5:2 “But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, / Too little to be among the clans of Judah, / From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. / His goings forth are from long ago, / From the days of eternity.” – Many people will recognize this verse from hearing it read during Christmas season. In Nativity scenes, it is usually quoted from the Gospel of the apostle Matthew, but if it’s read from Micah, you hear even more. We also hear this something more in the Gospel of the apostle John: John 1:2 He was in the beginning with God. That is, the little babe had a life that started long before He was conceived in Mary’s womb.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Burning Bush – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Primacy of the Soul (1:00)

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November 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 15:11 “These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.” – Jesus spoke this knowing He was going to die by crucifixion the next day. This is why Paul wrote of Him as the one “who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2). That’s a joy that endures and outlasts all suffering.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 1:1-5 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Spirit, Soul, and Body (0:57)

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November 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Peter 4:2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. – In other words: 2 Corinthians 5:15 …He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Ointment – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Suffering and Glory (0:56)

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November 29
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Micah 5:4 And He will arise and shepherd His flock / In the strength of the LORD, / In the majesty of the name of the LORD His God. / And they will remain, / Because at that time He will be great / To the ends of the earth. – Because Jesus was the focus on this prophecy, He would one day say: John 10:16 “I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 3:36 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Support Your Local Priesthood (1:01)

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November 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 15:12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.” – That’s a pretty tall order! But entirely within reason.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Reigning One – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Teacher Is Here and Is Calling for You (John 11:28) (0:59)

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December 1
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Peter 5:7 casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. – Peter was not speaking theoretically.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Acts 17:16-18 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Make Room for God (0:51)

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December 2
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; / And what does the LORD require of you / But to do justice, to love kindness, / And to walk humbly with your God? – He has not only told us, He has shown us! He showed us when He came down from heaven to become a human being and keep His own commandments.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as Our Sabbath – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Let Christ Be the Cornerstone of Consciousness (0:42)

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December 3
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” – If you’ve given your life, what’s left to give?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Romans 6:8-11 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Let Us Turn Back to Jesus Christ and the Bible (0:54)

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December 4
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Peter 3:18 …grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. – These are Simon Peter’s last words before leaving this earthly life.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Scepter – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Liars and Lying (0:59)

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December 5
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Habakkuk 2:4 “Behold, as for the proud one, / His soul is not right within him; / But the righteous will live by his faith. – Faith is humble.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 15:12-19 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Life Is a Learning Curve (0:57)

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December 6
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 15:14 “You are My friends if you do what I command you.” – In other words, we are His enemies if we do not do what He commands us.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Visitation of God – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Love and Marriage (0:48)

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December 7
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. – That’s unlimited mulligans!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Hebrews 2:9-10 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Less Is More? (1:01)

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December 8
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Zechariah 3:8 ‘Now listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who are sitting in front of you–indeed they are men who are a symbol, for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the Branch.’ – Jesus is the branch who became a tree and made us His branches.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Creator – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The New Testament Was/Wasn’t Written for Us (0:59)

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December 9
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 15:17 “This I command you, that you love one another.” – “Slow down, coach, you’re going too fast!” (What wide receiver Max McGee said in response to Coach Vince Lombardi’s first point in a refresher course in football basics, which was to hold up a football in front of the team and say, “Gentlemen, this is a football!”)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Revelation 19:13 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Reading the NT as the Word of Men about a Man (0:57)

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December 10
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 John 2:17 The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. – Notice how similarly John and Peter think: 1 Peter 4:2 …live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Lord of Hosts – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Viewing the NT from a Strictly Human Point of View (0:58)

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December 11
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Zechariah 6:12 “Then say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for He will branch out from where He is; and He will build the temple of the LORD.” – The prophet Zechariah lived in the late 7th, early 6th centuries. This prophecy of his refers to, of course, Jesus…who, as the Branch, became a vine with branches of His own: John 15:5 “I am the vine, you are the branches…” (This transition is fulfillment of John 20:21 So Jesus said to them again, “…as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 68:20 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The NT is either the truth or else it’s a pack of lies! (0:52)

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December 12
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 15:18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.” – If we crave to be loved by people, our walk with Christ is crippled from the start.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is “He Who Is and Who Was and Who Is to Come” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The NT is irrefutable evidence that… (0:09)

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December 13
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 John 3:23 This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. – The things the apostles say complement and reinforce each other, as in this case where the apostle Paul almost seems as if he’s speaking of what the apostle John just said – as if Paul is concerned that we won’t take John’s simple words as deeply to heart as we should: 2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 110 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The NT Is Leftovers (0:58)

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December 14
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! / Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! / Behold, your king is coming to you; / He is just and endowed with salvation, / Humble, and mounted on a donkey, / Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. – When this prophecy was fulfilled, only a remnant of the nation “shouted in triumph”…and they alone were saved from the destruction that came on the nation that rejected His reign and killed Him. Know, therefore, that this King will save you and yours even if America keeps rejecting Him.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ is the “I Am” – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: I Cannot Gainsay the New Testament (0:59)

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December 15
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 16:33 “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” – The are wondrous words! And whenever I read or hear them, my soul feels His blessing. I’m with the officers: John 7:46 The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 119 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Master or Mascot? (0:58)

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December 16
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. – Therefore, if I find myself afraid, it is an opportunity to grow in love.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as Yahweh – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Calling Men to Be Men of God (0:59)

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December 17
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Zechariah 11:12 I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, never mind!” So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages. – Six centuries ahead of time, God had the prophet Zechariah foreshadow the payoff for Judas’s betrayal of Jesus. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of such pointers to Jesus the Messiah embedded throughout the Old Testament.
  • A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Isaiah 9:1-2 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What Does It Mean to Be a Man of God? (0:57)

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December 18
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 18:36-37 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.” Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” – Pontius Pilate was a seasoned and brutal ruler…but he had never before…or after…encountered a subject who spoke like this.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as Jehovah – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Messiah – the Secret Weapon of God (1:01)

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December 19
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 John 4:21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also. – The apostle John could write that sentence because he heard Jesus say: “‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40)
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Jeremiah 31:31-34 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Ministry of a Grandparent (0:57)

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December 20
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Zechariah 12:10 “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.” – What the apostles were able to witness in the flesh, the prophets were able to foresee in advance – centuries in advance!
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Alpha and Omega – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Modern American Devotion to the Ancient Christian God (1:01)

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December 21
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: John 21:15 So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My lambs.” – Men, do you love Jesus more than your wives and children? He says to you, “Tend My lambs.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Matthew 11:28-30 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: My Testimony (0:57)

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December 22
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 John 1:9 Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. – Why do trinitarians say you must believe them to have the Father and the Son when the apostle John says right here that if you have Christ you have the Father and the Son?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Beginning and the End – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Biggest Lie Against the Old Testament (0:50)

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December 23
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Zechariah 13:7 “Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, / And against the man, My Associate,” / Declares the LORD of hosts. / “Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered; / And I will turn My hand against the little ones.” – When Jesus is absent, those present are scattered. “But in what sense is Jesus ever absent?” When He’s absent from our minds, our thoughts are scattered…and we are lost sheep.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 3:16-18 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Biggest Lie Against the New Testament (0:58)

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December 24
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 20:35 “In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’“ – Never is this more obvious than at Christmas.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the First and Last – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: To Be a Man of God, Be a Man of Christ (0:41)

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December 25
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Rev 17:14 “These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.” – To re-purpose an adage, people are not against us – they’re against Him…and we’re just standing in their way.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 4:25-26 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Who Are the People of God? (1:00)

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December 26
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Zechariah 14:9 And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one. – This is the kingdom of God that has come.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the King of Kings – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Who Is a Man of God? (0:49)

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December 27
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Revelation 2:4-5 ‘But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place–unless you repent.’ – How hard does a person’s heart have to be to turn down an appeal like this from a Lord like Jesus (not that there’s anyone fully “like Jesus”)…especially when His words are printed in red ink to remind us of the blood He shed just so He could have a close relationship with every single one of us?
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Romans 8:5-8 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: What Will Your Kids Say? (1:01)

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December 28
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Revelation 19:13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. – The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead dramatically and emphatically confirmed that God had indeed been speaking through Jewish prophets for centuries when they spoke of a messiah who was coming.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Lord of Lords – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: “Clinging to Guns and Religion” (1:01)

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December 29
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Malachi 4:2 “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings…” – Malachi was here prophesying of the One who would come and say to us, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12; 9:5).
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Hebrews 4:14-16 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: Salvation Is from the Christians and Jews (John 4:22) (1:00)

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December 30
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Revelation 3:19 ‘Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.’ – Too many people think Jesus is a nice guy who wants nothing more than to help them achieve their goals in life.
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the God of Gods – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: The Salvation of God Is in Christ (1:00)

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December 31
  • Messianic Verse of the Day: Revelation 22:21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen. – This is the last sentence of Revelation, of the New Testament, and of the Bible – and, as such, it is quite fitting. Moreover, combine it with the first verse of the Bible and see how well the two of them collectively encapsulate the entire Bible: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.”
  • A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Revelation 22:21 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
  • Daily Video Minute: It’s a Salvation of the Soul – Not of Circumstances (1:01)

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