Paid in Full Date: Monday, October 5, 2026 Readings: 1 Corinthians 6 | Psalm 80 In 1846, Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist and former slave, was a celebrity in Britain, but legally he was still someone’s property. His admirers there raised roughly 150 pounds and paid his former owner for his freedom. Douglass Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Unfinished Cathedral Date: Sunday, October 4, 2026 Readings: 1 Corinthians 3 | Psalm 79 Construction on the Sagrada Família in Barcelona began in 1882. The architect Antoni Gaudí took over the project a year later and devoted the rest of his life to it. He knew he would never see it finished. When Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Straw and Glory Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026 Readings: 1 Corinthians 2 | Psalm 78:38-72 Thomas Aquinas was arguably the greatest theologian of the Middle Ages, a man who dictated to several secretaries at once and left behind millions of words. Then, on December 6, 1273, something happened while he was celebrating Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Ancient Grafitti Date: Friday, October 2, 2026 If Romans is the constitution of the church, 1 Corinthians is the operating model. Check out this overview of 1 Corinthians from the Bible Project as we jump into Paul's second longest letter describing what life in the church should look like. Readings: Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Memory with Momentum Date: Thursday, October 1, 2026 Readings: Romans 15 | Psalm 77 Hope gets a bad rap these days. We treat it like a lottery ticket: fun to hold, statistically doubtful. Paul has something sturdier in mind. As Romans winds toward its close, he says that whatever was written in former days Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Different Calendars, Same Manger Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026 Readings: Romans 14 | Psalm 76 Romans 14 tackles something wonderfully unglamorous: what do you do when Christians disagree over religious ritual? Paul’s answer isn’t “settle the debate,” it’s “stop judging each other and get over it.” Whether someone eats meat or observes Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
