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One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on the Daily Radio Bible, a daily Bible‑in‑a‑year podcast with 20‑minute Scripture readings, Christ‑centered devotion, and guided prayer.This daily Bible reading and devotional invites you to live as a citizen of Jesus’ kingdom, reconciled, renewed, and deeply loved.
TODAY'S EPISODE:
Welcome to the July 15th episode of the Daily Radio Bible. On day 196 of our journey through scripture, Hunter guides listeners through powerful passages from Isaiah 22–24 and Hebrews 12. Today’s readings invite us to consider the sobering messages of judgment, restoration, and hope found in the words of the prophets, as well as the call in Hebrews to persevere in faith, endure God’s loving discipline, and be transformed by the consuming fire of His holy love. Join Hunter as he reflects on God’s desire to restore and renew us from the inside out, offering prayers for strength, peace, and presence as we continue our walk together through the Bible.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
Our God is a consuming fire. This is what Hunter reminds us after reading the scriptures—this fire is not a destructive, external judgment but a purifying, transforming presence within us. Through Jesus, our great champion, God reveals a love that will not let us go, a love that is relentless and restorative. The consuming fire of God’s holiness is not something that destroys us, but something that cauterizes, forges, renews, restores, and makes us new from the inside out.
Remember the story of the two men on the road to Emmaus. As the resurrected Christ walked alongside them, their hearts burned within them—not from fear, but from the revelation of God’s love and truth. It was a fire that restored hope, not left them judged and hopeless. That is the fire Hunter invites us to feel—the fire of resurrection and restoration, the fire that awakens us to God’s presence, correction, and discipline so that we might obey and follow Him more closely.
God’s love, as George MacDonald wrote, loves unto purity. All that is not of love’s kind is purified away. This is the fire that burns in the hearts of God’s people. This is the work God does—removing all that stands between Him and the beloved, so that nothing hinders the fullness of His presence in our lives.
Let us open ourselves to this holy fire. Let us welcome the transforming presence of Christ within. May His relentless love burn away all that is not of Him, and make us into people marked by hope, restored by grace, and filled with the unshakable joy of His presence.
That’s the prayer Hunter makes for his own soul, for his family—his wife, daughters, and son—and that’s the prayer he has for you. May it be so.
TODAY'S PRAYERS:
Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.
Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
And now Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, Joy. Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life. Amen
And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ. Amen.
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