The Joy of Open Hands Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2026 Readings: 2 Corinthians 8 | Psalm 89:1-18 Paul has a fundraising problem (sounds familiar), and he solves it by telling a story about joy. The churches of Macedonia, such as Philippi and Thessalonica, were poor and had suffered persecution. Yet “their overflowing joy and Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Groaning Toward Glory Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2026 Readings: 2 Corinthians 5 | Psalm 88 Paul uses the language of tents. Our earthly bodies are temporary shelters, and in them “we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling” (2 Corinthians 5:2). Tent-making was his trade, and he knows how Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Cracked Pots and Priceless Cargo Date: Monday, October 12, 2026 Readings: 2 Corinthians 4 | Psalm 87 “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7). In Paul’s world, clay jars were the cheap, disposable containers of Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Comfort Is Contagious Date: Sunday, October 11, 2026 Click here for the backstory on Paul's second letter to the Corinthians from the Bible Project. Readings: 2 Corinthians 1 | Psalm 86 Paul’s second letter to Corinth opens with praise, not polish: “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Seeds of Resurrection Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026 Readings: 1 Corinthians 15 | Psalm 85 If Christianity were a building, 1 Corinthians 15 would be the load-bearing wall. Paul hands on what he received “as of first importance”: Christ died for our sins, was buried, was raised on the third day, and appeared Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Love Gets the Last Word Date: Friday, October 9, 2026 Readings: 1 Corinthians 13 | Psalm 84 You’ve probably heard 1 Corinthians 13 at a wedding, which is a bit like hearing a battle cry at a spa. Paul wrote it to a church dazzled by spiritual fireworks, tongues, prophecy, and knowledge, yet bickering, litigating, Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
