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Before the First Mountain

A Bible study on your place in God’s love

For the woman whose worth gets tangled in performance.

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A lesson, background reading, discussion questions, and printable reminders with room to respond.

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Read Ephesians 1:3-8. Choose one question to write about. Take one small response into your day.

Use it with a friend.

Read together, take turns listening, and leave room to pass. Ask what care would be useful before offering advice.

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The Scoreboard Is Closed

Read: Ephesians 1:3-8

God, let Your love set the starting point for my day. Free my work from auditioning.

The scorekeeping can start before your feet reach the floor. Yesterday’s patience: questionable. Today’s list: already behind. Ephesians 1 takes us further back than either of those reports, to God’s choosing in Christ before the world began.

That changes the reason for your next good thing. You can answer the email, apologize, or help your neighbor as someone already loved. The work matters. It simply doesn't have to carry the impossible assignment of making you worth loving. Let the scorekeeper put down her clipboard. There is a whole day to receive and live.

One response.

Write Chosen in Christ beside today's list. Read Ephesians 1:4 before starting it.

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