Life gets busy. Set aside 10-20 minutes when you can really focus without distractions. Read the study passage carefully - it tackles real struggles, cultural lies, and hard questions with biblical truth and historical context. Don't rush through it. Let it challenge you, make you think, even make you uncomfortable. That's growth happening. These aren't easy reads, but they're honest. Ask God to show you where it truth applies to you right now. In the middle of all the chaos, focus on Jesus.
May
Tomorrow is Pentecost Sunday (May 24, 2026). Today is Saturday, the Sabbath. As the sun sets tonight, the Sabbath ends and the disciples will resume their constant prayer, not knowing that tomorrow everything changes. They're one day away from the most dramatic moment in the church's histo
May
Two days from now, on Sunday, the Spirit will fall at Pentecost. Today is Friday. Tomorrow is the Sabbath. The disciples are in their final waiting period - eleven or twelve days now since Jesus ascended. But today, Friday, they rest from their constant prayer long enough to observe the Sa
May
Three days from now, the Spirit will fall on Pentecost Sunday. Today is Thursday - three days of waiting remain. The disciples have been in the upper room for about ten days now since Jesus ascended, praying constantly, maintaining unity, trusting the promise would be fulfilled. They don't
May
Four days from now, the promise Jesus made will be fulfilled. The Spirit will come. Power will fall. The church will be born. But today, the disciples are still waiting in the upper room, praying constantly, maintaining unity, trusting that "in a few days" is almost here. They don't know i
May
Five days from now, tongues of fire will rest on the disciples as the Holy Spirit comes in power. But today, no fire yet. Just more waiting, more praying, more trusting that God will fulfill what Jesus promised. They've been in the upper room for nine days now since Jesus ascended. The wai
May
Pentecost (Greek name) is the same festival Jews call Shavuot (Hebrew name). It comes fifty days after Passover (hence "Pentecost" from the Greek word for "fifty"). This wasn't a Christian invention but an ancient Jewish festival that God chose as the moment to pour out his Spirit on Jesus
May
Seven days from now (May 24, 2026), the Holy Spirit will fall on the disciples at Pentecost. But today they don't know that. They're in the upper room, still waiting, still praying, still trusting Jesus's promise that "in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 1:5). It
May
Yesterday Jesus ascended to heaven. Today the disciples are back in Jerusalem, as commanded, waiting for the promised Spirit. The ascension changed everything and nothing simultaneously. Jesus was gone, but his presence through the Spirit was coming. The mission was commissioned but not ye
May
Today is Ascension Thursday, forty days after Easter Sunday. On this day in AD 30 (or possibly AD 33), Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, completing the sequence that began with incarnation. He came down at Christmas, lived among us for thirty-three years, died on Good Friday, rose on Easter
May
Tomorrow is Ascension Thursday (May 14, 2026). Tonight is the eve of Jesus's departure, the last evening he spent with his disciples before returning to the Father. They didn't know it was the last evening - Jesus had said "in a few days" the Spirit would come, but he hadn't specified when
May
Two days from now (May 14, 2026), we observe Ascension Thursday. The risen Christ who spent forty days proving his resurrection and teaching about the kingdom will ascend to the Father, leaving his disciples with final instructions and a promise. These last two days before ascension must h
May
Today, the second Sunday in May, many will celebrate Mother's Day - a complicated holiday that brings joy to some and pain to others. For women who've lost mothers, can't become mothers, have troubled relationships with mothers, or grieve children lost through miscarriage or death, this da