Today’s Scripture: Phillippians 3
Mary is reading Phillippians 3 in the WEB.
Access Pray Every Day every single day on the Pray Every Day App! Not only can you listen, but I've created 365 daily devotions you can read as well--all about connecting deeply with Jesus, finding healing, and experiencing His presence. Download the app here:
*
Google Play
*
Apple
Or listen to Pray Every Day on your
Alexa Skills device! (It's free too!) Or subscribe here:
September Show Sponsors:
Kerry Larson Luddy
We are so excited to also welcome Kerry Larson Luddy as a sponsor for Pray Every Day this month.
A respected Christian apologist is exposed for leading a double life and preying on women. A pastor and his family receive death threats after apologizing for giving a false prophecy about the 2020 election. A husband’s adulterous fling is arranged and publicly exposed by a media outlet. A financial secretary steals half a million dollars from her church. Christians are breaking commandments, leaving trauma, broken lives, and sorrow in their wake. How can this be?
It's a tale as old as time: people caring more about themselves than their neighbors, wayward hearts too busy or disinterested in knowing the Bible, and a desire for power instead of transformation.
As a child, Kerry Larson Luddy remembers being confused by the Bible having “old” and “new” parts. Does this mean the old is bad? Is God better in the new version? How are these two parts even connected? The frayed edges of her understanding began to mend years later as she studied the Bible. Over time, she began to see that God’s love for his people did not begin in a manger in Bethlehem, but from creation, and then again as he created a people--his "treasured possession"--at Mount Sinai from whom would emerge the greatest gift to humanity: his own Son, Jesus Christ. Through Jesus's teachings and a deep dive into the stories of wayward hearts in the Old Testament, her own heart was changed.
In Ten Connections for the Curious: The Commandments, Our Wayward Hearts, and Christ, Kerry uses Bible explication, contemporary events, literature, film, and personal experiences (with a dash of humor) to help readers understand the importance of studying the whole of God's Word, and how it deepens faith and transforms hearts. Within ten chapters, Kerry explains the commandments in context and connects them to Jesus’s teachings and our lives as Christ-followers. Each chapter concludes with several questions to help readers reflect on the hopeful reality that God can heal and redirect our hardened, wandering hearts. The book can be used for individual or group study.
Learn more about Kerry here, and
purchase a copy of Ten Connections for the Curious here.
Jennifer Thompson
I am excited to welcome Jennifer Thompson and her book Return to Jesus as a sponsor for the Pray Every Day Show!
An inspiring invitation for women to surrender the stress, anxiety, and overwhelm and rest in the presence of Jesus.
Do you feel overwhelmed and overcommitted before even getting out of bed in the morning?
