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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    The vineyard was never yours (opens the original)

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    Let me sing for My well Beloved a song of My Beloved about His vineyard. My Beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it.He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between Me and My vineyard.What could have been done more to My vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, wh

  2. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    Mark 12:1-12 (WEB) (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    Mark 11:27-33 (WEB) (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Sep 15, 2026

    Righteousness or Just Noise? What Jesus Is Hungry For (opens the original)

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    As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”1This week’s reading begins with detail that can seem rather banal. “The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry.”2 In the verse immediately preceding it, Jesus had entered Jerusalem as King immed

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