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Today’s Scripture: 22 Chronicles 8
Mary is reading 2 Chronicles 8 in the WEB.
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VOM Radio
We are so excited to have VOM Radio as a sponsor for Pray Every Day this month.
Listen to VOM Radio to meet Hana, the daughter of an Eritrean Christian Pastor who has been in prison there without charges for more than 20 years.
Dr. Tekleab Mengisteab was a medical doctor and a leader in the World Health Organization for the nation of Eritrea. He was also an ordained minister in the Orthodox Church of Eritrea. Since November 19, 2004, Dr. Mengisteab has been a prisoner for Christ, imprisoned without charge or trial by the government of Eritrea. Today he is one of more than 300 imprisoned Christians there.
Listen as Mengisteab’s daughter, Hana, shares the story of her father’s arrest and of God’s faithfulness to her and her family through the past 20 years. She will tell us how she has found joy amidst suffering, but also how she’s come to know that the Lord “welcomes my grief.”
Hana was just six years old when her father was arrested. She remembers her mother and church elders at their home talking about her father being gone. “What did it mean that my father is in prison?” Hana wondered. Even after Dr. Mengisteab’s arrest, the church continued to meet and minister. Hana’s mom continued her church activities, risking her own arrest.
Only months after her father’s arrest, Hana found herself in police custody when authorities raided a children’s Sunday School meeting. Children as young as 12 were put in handcuffs, yet these young believers had been prepared for Christian persecution. They began to loudly sing praises to God.
Hear her incredible story at VOMRadio.net/Hana or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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.
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