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249<div class="font-body-large text-break rich-text condensed hide-video hide-images" itemprop="articleBody"><p><strong>Today’s Reading: Psalm 2:7–8; Matthew 3:16–17</strong></p><p>Before reading, pray together and ask the Holy Spirit to help your family see Jesus as God’s chosen and beloved Son.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Today’s Big Truth:</strong></p><p><strong>Jesus is God’s Son, the true King whom all nations will one day honor.</strong></p><p>Psalm 2 is a powerful song about God’s promise to place His chosen King on the throne—One who would rule not just over Israel, but over the whole world. In it, God speaks directly:</p><p>“You are my son.</p><p>
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300<div class="font-body-large text-break rich-text condensed hide-video hide-images" itemprop="articleBody"><p><strong>Today’s Reading: Deuteronomy 18:15–19; John 1:1–14</strong></p><p><strong>Before you begin, pray together and ask the Holy Spirit to help your family hear God’s voice and recognize Jesus as the One who speaks God’s truth perfectly.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Today’s Big Truth:</strong></p><p><strong>Jesus is the promised Prophet who shows us God’s heart.</strong></p><p>Long before Jesus was born, God made a promise through Moses—one that gave hope to His people for generations.</p><p>Moses told Israel:</p><p>“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me… You must listen to him.”</p><p> — <strong>...</strong></p></div>
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334<div class="font-body-large text-break rich-text condensed hide-video hide-images" itemprop="articleBody"><p><strong>Today’s Reading: Exodus 33:14</strong></p><p>Before reading together tonight, pray and invite the Holy Spirit to help your family understand how God stays close to His people.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Today’s Big Truth:</strong></p><p><strong>God is always with His people—and Jesus is the perfect fulfillment of that promise.</strong></p><p>In today’s passage, Moses is meeting with God while the Israelites are in the wilderness. Moses knows that leading God’s people is impossible without God’s help. So he asks God to stay with them.</p><p>And God answers with a beautiful promise:...</p></div>
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385<div class="font-body-large text-break rich-text condensed hide-video hide-images" itemprop="articleBody"><p><strong>Today’s Reading: Genesis 22:1–18</strong></p><p>Today we move forward in Abraham’s story. By this point God has changed his name, blessed him with a son through his wife Sarah (whose name was also changed), and continued to lead him step by step.</p><p>In this passage, Abraham hears God speak and responds with trust. God asks him to take Isaac—the very son God had promised, the child through whom God said He would bless the whole world—and offer him as a sacrifice on the mountain. This was a moment that tested...</p></div>
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478<button aria-label="Close" class="btn btn-outline-secondary w-100" name="consent" onclick="$(this).parents(&#39;.modal&#39;).removeClass(&#39;d-block&#39;)" type="submit" value="rejected">Reject</button>
479</div>
480</form></turbo-frame></div>
481</div>
482</div>
483
484
485</main>
486</body>
487</html>

Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.