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Season 12

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 Daily Radio Bible for May 21st, where Hunter invites listeners on day 142 of our journey through Scripture. Today’s episode features a reading correction—yesterday’s chapters are revisited as we dive into 1 Kings 6, 2 Chronicles 3, Psalm 97, and Romans 1. Hunter walks us through the construction of Solomon’s temple, celebrates God’s justice and supremacy in the Psalms, and explores Paul’s words in Romans about being made right with God—not through doing, avoiding, or knowing, but through faith from start to finish. Stay tuned for encouraging reflections, prayer, and practical encouragement to share and follow the podcast as we continue this journey together.

TODAY'S DEVOTION:

How do we make ourselves right before God? Is it by doing more? Avoiding more? Knowing more? All the religions of the world will point us down one or all of these well-trodden paths. You must do, you must avoid, you must know. But none of these roads satisfy. None bring the rest, the assurance, the good news our souls really seek.

When we set out to justify ourselves before God by doing more, questions inevitably rise—how much more is enough? How good do I need to be? Those questions don’t lead to peace. They lead us toward pride, self-made rules, and eventually to either pretending or deluding ourselves into thinking we’ve kept them all. Those nearby quickly see the truth: we are not as loving, holy, or pure as we so desperately want to believe.

Trying to avoid, to dodge our obligations or simply live for ourselves—for our appetites and desires—brings no deeper satisfaction. We end up owned by the things we thought would set us free. And knowing? God is not a subject to be studied or a system to master. He is the Master, and we will only truly know him when we let him master us.

The good news, Hunter reminds us, is that being made right with God is not about doing, avoiding, or knowing in our own strength. "This good news tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith." And that faith isn’t something we conjure up; it’s a gift. It is lived out in the life of Jesus—his faith, his obedience, his compassion, his love. That is what ultimately saves us.

He saves us from start to finish. Our lives are hidden with Christ in God. Now, we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us. That is the good news. That is how we are made right with God—from beginning to end, entirely by his grace and his work for us.

May we remember that our real life is not earned or achieved, but given—hidden in Christ, secure in his love and finished work. Let this be the foundation of our joy, our hope, our peace.

That’s a prayer Hunter offers for his own soul, for his family, and 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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