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TODAY'S EPISODE:
Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible. Today is September 12th, and together we continue our journey through the Scriptures with Ezra 1, Psalms 84 and 85, and Luke 7.
Today's readings are filled with the possibility of restoration.
Ezra opens with God's people being invited home after years of exile. Cyrus, king of Persia, announces that the people can return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. What seemed lost is being restored. A new chapter is beginning.
The Psalms give voice to that longing for home. "How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of Heaven's Armies." And Psalm 85 speaks of restoration, forgiveness, peace, and the hope that God's glory will once again fill the land.
Then in Luke 7, we encounter Jesus moving toward people with extraordinary compassion. He heals the servant of a Roman centurion. He meets a grieving widow and raises her son. And finally, while eating in the home of a Pharisee, Jesus receives the extravagant love of a woman whose life has been marked by sin and shame.
Again and again, Jesus moves toward those others might overlook or keep at a distance.
The sick are welcomed.
The grieving are seen.
The outsider is honored.
And the sinner hears the words, "Your sins are forgiven."
Today we are invited to hear those words for ourselves and to discover the freedom that comes when forgiveness becomes more than an idea and we actually begin to live as people who know that we are loved.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
TODAY'S PRAYERS:
Singing a New Song
There is this extraordinary moment at the end of Luke 7.
Jesus is eating at the home of Simon the Pharisee when a woman enters the room.
Everyone seems to know who she is.
And everyone seems to know what she has done.
She comes to Jesus weeping. Her tears fall on his feet. She wipes them with her hair, kisses his feet, and pours perfume over them.
Simon watches all of this and thinks to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him."
But Jesus does know.
He knows her story.
He knows her pain.
He knows her sin.
And he doesn't move away.
That's important.
Because Simon sees a category.
Jesus sees a person.
Simon sees her past.
Jesus sees her.
And then Jesus tells Simon a story about two people whose debts have been forgiven. One owes a little. The other owes an enormous amount.
Neither can pay.
So the creditor forgives them both.
"Who do you suppose loved him more?" Jesus asks.
Simon knows the answer.
The one who had been forgiven much.
And suddenly we understand what is happening in this room.
This woman's tears aren't an attempt to earn forgiveness.
They're the response of someone who has encountered mercy.
She is singing a new song with her whole life.
The old song said, "You are what you've done."
The old song said, "You are your shame."
The old song said, "People like you don't belong here."
But Jesus gives her another song.
"You are forgiven."
"Your faith has saved you."
"Go in peace."
Maybe some of us need to hear that song today.
Because shame has a way of keeping us in exile long after God has opened the door and told us we can come home.
Ezra tells us it's time to come home.
The Psalms tell us that God's dwelling place is beautiful and that righteousness and peace have kissed.
And Jesus shows us what that homecoming looks like.
The outsider is welcomed.
The grieving are comforted.
The sick are healed.
And the sinner is forgiven.
So maybe today it's time to stop singing the old song.
The song of shame.
The song of fear.
The song that says you have to somehow earn your way back.
Listen instead to the voice of Jesus.
You are forgiven.
You are loved.
Go in peace.
And let that become the new song of your life.
That's the prayer I have for my own soul.
That's the prayer I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters, and my son.
And that's the prayer I have for you.
May it be so.
Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose  through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.  
Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.  
And now Lord,  make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.  Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope.  Where there is darkness, light.  And where there is sadness,  Joy.  Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.  For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life.  Amen
And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ.  Amen. 
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TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Daniel 1–2; Revelation 16
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Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible. Today is September 11th, and together we continue our journey through the Scriptures with Daniel 1 and 2 and Revelation 16.
Daniel and his friends find themselves living in Babylon, far from home and surrounded by a culture that wants to reshape their identity. They are given new names, new expectations, and a new way of life. Yet Daniel quietly resolves to remain faithful.
Then King Nebuchadnezzar has a troubling dream. None of Babylon's wise men can tell the king what he has dreamed or what it means. Daniel cannot do it either, at least not by his own wisdom. So he turns to God.
And the mystery is revealed.
Daniel's response is not self-congratulation. It is worship. Wisdom and power belong to God. God reveals what is hidden. God knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.
The vision itself points beyond Babylon and beyond every human empire. Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall, but Daniel sees a kingdom established by God that will endure.
Revelation 16 brings us again into the strange and sometimes frightening imagery of John's apocalypse, where the powers of this world are exposed and judged.
Through both Daniel and Revelation, we are reminded that empire does not have the final word.
God does.
And even when we cannot see what God is doing, we can trust the One who sees what is hidden and whose kingdom will not pass away.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
The Revealer of Mysteries
Daniel is living in a world he did not choose.
His home is gone. His country has been conquered. He has been carried into Babylon, given a Babylonian name, educated in Babylonian ways, and expected to serve a Babylonian king.
And then suddenly his life is threatened because the king demands the impossible.
Tell me my dream.
And then tell me what it means.
Daniel knows he cannot do this.
And I think that may be one of the most important things about Daniel.
He knows he doesn't have what it takes.
So Daniel gathers his friends and they pray.
And God reveals the mystery.
Daniel then stands before the king and says, essentially, "This isn't happening because I'm wiser than everybody else."
God is the revealer of mysteries.
I love that.
Because so much of life is a mystery.
We don't know what tomorrow holds.
We don't always understand what is happening around us.
We certainly don't understand everything that is happening inside of us.
And sometimes, like Daniel, we find ourselves living in circumstances we never would have chosen.
But Daniel reminds us that we don't have to understand everything in order to trust God.
And then comes this extraordinary vision.
Daniel sees the kingdoms of the world rising and falling. Gold gives way to silver, silver to bronze, bronze to iron.
Every empire looks permanent when you're living inside of it.
But none of them are.
Then Daniel sees a stone that is not cut by human hands.
And eventually that stone fills the whole earth.
The kingdom of God.
A kingdom that doesn't arise from human violence, human ingenuity, or human power.
It comes from God.
And Revelation is telling us something very similar.
Babylon will not last.
The kingdoms of this world will not last.
Fear will not last.
Violence will not last.
Death will not last.
But the kingdom of our God will.
So perhaps today you find yourself facing something you don't understand.
You don't know how it's going to work out.
You don't know what comes next.
You don't have the answer.
Daniel didn't either.
But he knew the One who did.
So we can loosen our grip on our need to understand everything.
We can pray.
We can trust.
And we can remember that behind all the kingdoms that rise and fall, behind all the confusion and uncertainty of our lives, there is a kingdom that cannot be shaken.
And there is a King.
Jesus.
That's the prayer I have for my own soul.
That's the prayer I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters, and my son.
And that's the prayer I have for you.
May it be so.
TODAY'S PRAYERS:
Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose  through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.  
Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.  
And now Lord,  make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.  Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope.  Where there is darkness, light.  And where there is sadness,  Joy.  Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.  For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life.  Amen
And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ.  Amen. 
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Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible, where each day we journey through the pages of Scripture, seeking to encounter the living Word of God together.
Today we read Lamentations chapters 3, 4, and 5, along with Revelation chapter 15.
These are difficult passages. Lamentations gives voice to anguish, loss, confusion, and even questions about the character of God. Jeremiah speaks from within the devastation of Jerusalem, trying to understand what has happened to his people and where God is in the midst of it all.
But right there, in the middle of lament, we hear some of the most beautiful words in all of Scripture:
"The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning."
Today we wrestle honestly with the difficult images of God we encounter in Scripture while remembering that Jesus is the fullest revelation of who God is.
When our understanding of God becomes clouded by fear, suffering, or even difficult passages in the Bible, we look again toward Christ.
And there we discover the God whose faithful love never ends.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
What Is God Like?
What is God like?
The words we've read today in Lamentations are sobering. Disturbing, even.
The depth of pain and sorrow expressed by Jeremiah raises profound questions about God's nature.
Is God a capricious deity, much like the gods of Mount Olympus, inflicting suffering upon his people, making them eat gravel, leaving them devastated, and shutting out their prayers?
These descriptions can create uncertainty and fear in our hearts if we're not sure how to read them.
But Scripture invites us deeper.
It invites us to wrestle honestly with these raw emotions.
Jeremiah is telling God's story from within the devastation of siege and loss. He is describing what it feels like to stand among the ruins and believe that your suffering has come from the very hand of God.
And then something happens.
Jeremiah remembers.
"Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this:
The faithful love of the Lord never ends!
His mercies never cease.
Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
I say to myself, 'The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!'"
And this is where we need to keep looking.
Because if we want to know what God is truly like, ultimately we look to Jesus.
Jesus is the fullest revelation of the Father.
When we wonder whether God is against us, we look at Jesus.
When suffering causes us to question whether God is good, we look at Jesus.
When even the Scriptures seem to present us with images of God that leave us afraid or confused, we look at Jesus.
Because in him we see the face of the Father.
God does not come in Christ to crush us or leave us abandoned in darkness.
He comes to deliver us from evil.
To heal.
To restore.
To reconcile.
To redeem.
Jesus is our lens. He is the one through whom we come to understand the character and heart of God.
So we don't have to deny the lament.
We don't have to pretend suffering isn't real.
Jeremiah certainly doesn't.
But neither do we stop there.
We keep looking until, beyond the ruins and through the tears, we see the face of Christ.
And there we discover the God whose faithful love never ends.
Whose mercies never cease.
Whose faithfulness is great.
And whose mercies are new every morning.
That's the prayer I have for my own soul.
That's the prayer I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters, and my son.
And that's the prayer I have for you.
May it be so.
TODAY'S PRAYERS:
Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose  through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.  
Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.  
And now Lord,  make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.  Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope.  Where there is darkness, light.  And where there is sadness,  Joy.  Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.  For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life.  Amen
And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ.  Amen. 
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TODAY'S EPISODE:
Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible. Today is September 9th, and this is day 252 of our journey through the Scriptures.
Today we enter into some difficult and powerful passages.
In Lamentations 1 and 2, we sit alongside Jerusalem in her grief. The city that once overflowed with life now sits alone, mourning all that has been lost. These chapters don't rush us past sorrow. They give grief a voice.
Obadiah turns our attention toward Edom and the consequences of pride, violence, and taking advantage of another's suffering.
Then Revelation 14 pulls back the curtain and gives us another vision. The Lamb stands on Mount Zion. Babylon, the great symbol of human empire, violence, exploitation, and domination, is declared fallen.
And suddenly lament gives way to hope.
The kingdoms we build do not last forever. The systems of violence, domination, and death do not get the final word. God's kingdom is coming, and the Lamb is making all things new.
So wherever you find yourself today, whether you are standing among the ruins of something you've lost or beginning to see signs of something new, there is hope.
Babylon falls.
The Lamb remains.
And the kingdom of God is coming.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
Out of the Ashes
Babylon has fallen.
And out of the ashes comes hope.
Today's readings give us images of terrible loss. Jerusalem sits alone. The city that had once been filled with people is grieving. Her beauty is gone. Her people have been scattered.
Lamentations doesn't try to clean this up.
It lets people grieve.
Sometimes that's what faith looks like. Sometimes faith isn't pretending everything is okay. Sometimes faith is sitting among the ruins and telling the truth about what has been lost.
But then John gives us another picture.
"Babylon is fallen."
Babylon represents that old human way of organizing the world. Power. Domination. Violence. Exploitation. The endless attempt to secure ourselves at the expense of someone else.
John says that world is passing away.
And standing on Mount Zion is the Lamb.
That's where our hope is.
Our hope isn't that we can somehow repair Babylon well enough to make it last forever. Our hope is that God is making something new.
A new city.
A new creation.
A world where God dwells with humanity and every tear is wiped away.
Sometimes we look around at our lives, our families, our churches, or our world and see nothing but ruins.
But ruins are not the end of the story.
God brings resurrection out of death.
God brings reconciliation out of alienation.
God brings life out of places where we thought life could never grow again.
So don't be afraid of the ashes.
And don't let the ruins convince you that God has abandoned the world.
Lift your eyes.
The Lamb is standing.
Babylon is falling.
And the kingdom of God is coming.
May we learn to live even now as citizens of that kingdom. May we become people of peace, forgiveness, mercy, generosity, and love.
That's the prayer I have for my own soul.
That's the prayer I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters, and my son.
And that's the prayer I have for you.
May it be so.
TODAY'S PRAYERS:
Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose  through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.  
Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.  
And now Lord,  make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.  Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope.  Where there is darkness, light.  And where there is sadness,  Joy.  Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.  For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life.  Amen
And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ.  Amen. 
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TODAY'S EPISODE:
Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible! Today is September 8th, and our journey through the Scriptures takes us into Jeremiah 42–44, Psalm 48, and Revelation 13.
In Jeremiah, the people ask the prophet to seek God's direction for them. They promise to obey whatever God says, whether they like the answer or not. Yet when Jeremiah tells them not to flee to Egypt, they reject the word they had asked to receive. Fear persuades them that they must secure their own future, even if doing so means abandoning the way God has placed before them.
In Revelation 13, John describes beasts, deception, coercive power, and the mysterious number 666. These images warn us about what happens when human power is magnified, worshiped, and treated as ultimate.
Psalm 48 gives us a different vision. God is our fortress and our security. We are invited to meditate on his unfailing love and to remember that God has not abandoned or separated himself from us.
Today's readings confront the ancient lie that we are alone and must save ourselves. They invite us to trust Emmanuel, the God who is with us, and to align our hearts with his kingdom of love rather than the fearful kingdoms we create for ourselves.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
God Is with You
We are told that 666 is the number of a man.
A great deal has been written about this mysterious number. Three sixes. A trinity of numbers, but an unholy trinity. It is humanity magnified, exalted, and worshiped. It is a beastly imitation standing in stark contrast to the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We are told that wisdom is required to understand its meaning, and I do not pretend to possess that kind of wisdom.
But it seems to me that whether we are looking at the queen of heaven confronted by Jeremiah or the many-headed beast described by John, the result is much the same.
When humanity believes the serpent's lie of separation, destruction follows.
The people in Jeremiah's day refused to trust that God was with them. They would not believe that he would protect them, rescue them, and give them life. Believing themselves to be alone, they separated themselves from God's will and fled to Egypt, another land of exile.
The same pattern begins in the garden.
Adam and Eve believe the suggestion that God is withholding himself from them. They imagine that he is not truly with them or for them. They hide from the God who has never stopped seeking them, and they experience exile in the very garden where God desires to dwell with them.
This tragic pattern repeats itself through history.
In our blindness, we fail to recognize the presence of the Triune God of life. We believe ourselves to be alone, so we rely on the gods of our own making. We worship human strength, political power, control, violence, wealth, or whatever else promises to secure us.
And the result is always the same.
The serpent's strategy has not really changed. Seeds of doubt are planted:
God is not present.
God is not with you.
God is not for you.
Believing that we are alone and that God is indifferent, we attempt to construct a life apart from him, apart from the Triune life of love and flourishing that has always been offered to us.
But the psalmist tells us another story:
"O God, we meditate on your unfailing love."
Our God is like a fortified wall, a citadel, and a beacon. This is the story we will continue to tell to future generations.
God is not separate from you.
God is with you.
That is the truth.
So align your heart with his will, his purposes, and his kingdom rather than your own. Renounce the lie of separation embodied in the number 666, and worship Emmanuel, the God who is with us, the God who is love.
That is the prayer I have for my own soul. That is the prayer I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters, and my son.
And that is the prayer I have for you.
May it be so.
TODAY'S PRAYERS:
Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose  through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.  
Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.  
And now Lord,  make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.  Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope.  Where there is darkness, light.  And where there is sadness,  Joy.  Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.  For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life.  Amen
And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ.  Amen. 
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