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One theme that bubbles up today:

No spiritual gift, no natural ability, no human achievement is greater or more important than love…a love you won’t fully understand without the weird stuff.

Bible used for reading today:

Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020).

Other sources consulted, quoted, or mentioned today:

Crossway, ESV Systematic Theology Study Bible: Notes (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017).

Crossway Bibles, The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008).

Mark J. Keown, Discovering the New Testament: An Introduction to Its Background, Theology, and Themes: The Pauline Letters, vol. II (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2021), 146.

James Merritt, “Love from above (1 Corinthians 13),” in Exalting Jesus in 1 Corinthians, ed. David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary (Brentwood, TN: B&H Publishing Group, 2023), 257.

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About the #ForTheHope podcast

#ForTheHope’s Daily Audio Bible is (crazy idea!) a daily audio Bible reading. But it’s not just a voice — you can go anywhere and hear a better voice just read the actual text. We read through the New Testament in about 10 months and the Old Testament in about 14 months with a passion for just keepin’ it real, having conversations like normal people, and living out the love of Jesus better every single day.

Also showing up in your stream when you subscribe via Apple,  Spotify, or your favorite podcast software are occasional (and separate) #PracticeTheWay segments for nurturing our spiritual formation and #AlwaysBeReady segments that help you take “a ministry of showing up” to work and culture.

About Roger Courville, CSP

Roger Courville, CSP is an award-winning speaker, award-winning author, and a passionately bad guitarist. He holds a Master’s in Christian Apologetics from Talbot School of Theology (Biola University) and is now working on his Doctorate in Ministry in Spiritual Formation at Denver Seminary. And…all that blah blah blah means nothing if he doesn’t help you fall more in love with Jesus and the people in Jesus’ world. If we do not have sacrificial love (1 Co 13, Ro 12), we’ve got nothing.