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Vol. I · No. 6 · October 2026

Conducted by @stephenwdby235

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Contents

  1. I57. Hope Beyond the GraveOct 8
  2. II7. The Love of Jesus: Lessons for LifeOct 8
  3. III79. Jesus and Jairus’ Daughter: Hope RestoredOct 8
  4. IV55. The Fruit of the Spirit in Jesus’ LifeOct 8
  5. V44. The Lost Sheep: Finding What Was GoneOct 8
  6. VI55. The Fruit of the Spirit in Jesus’ LifeOct 8

Article I

57. Hope Beyond the Grave

By @stephenwdby235

There are days when grief behaves like weather. It doesn’t ask permission, it doesn’t follow schedules, and it changes fast. You can be fine in the morning, running errands with the careful attention that keeps life functional, and then something small pulls the floor out from under you. A brand of coffee your person used to buy. The particular color of sunset that happens to match a photo frame on a shelf. The sound of a name in someone else’s conversation. In those mom

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Article II

7. The Love of Jesus: Lessons for Life

By @stephenwdby235

Love is a word people carry around lightly. We say we love food, schedules, comfort, and even certain versions of ourselves. But when the New Testament speaks about the love of Jesus, it does not treat love as a mood or a personal preference. It treats love as a way of living, a way of seeing people, and a way of choosing what to do next, even when it costs something. That is why “the love of Jesus” does not stay inside church walls. It presses into ordinary days, into d

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Article III

79. Jesus and Jairus’ Daughter: Hope Restored

By @stephenwdby235

There are stories in the Gospels that feel like a door cracked open, just enough to show you what hope can look like when fear is fully in control. The account of Jesus and Jairus’ daughter does that. It moves fast in the way real emergencies do. One moment you are asking questions, the next you are watching days collapse into minutes, and by the time help arrives, you realize you have been living under a cloud of “too late” for longer than you thought. In Matthew, Mark,

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Article IV

55. The Fruit of the Spirit in Jesus’ Life

By @stephenwdby235

When people talk about the Fruit of the Spirit, they often picture it as a checklist for believers. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. That can be helpful, but it can also make the idea feel abstract. What changes everything is noticing where this fruit shows up first. In the New Testament, the fruit is not just something Christians are supposed to produce. It is embodied in the life of Jesus. Jesus is not only the tea

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Article V

44. The Lost Sheep: Finding What Was Gone

By @stephenwdby235

The story of the lost sheep sounds simple on the surface. One sheep goes missing, a shepherd searches, and the sheep is found. But when you sit with it longer, it stops being a neat parable and starts behaving like a mirror. It asks what you do when something valuable slips beyond your reach. It challenges the lazy comfort of assuming that if it is gone, it was probably meant to be gone. And it exposes a harder truth, which is that “missing” is not always the same as “gone

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Article VI

55. The Fruit of the Spirit in Jesus’ Life

By @stephenwdby235

When people talk about the Fruit of the Spirit, they often picture it as a checklist for believers. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. That can be helpful, but it can also make the idea feel abstract. What changes everything is noticing where this fruit shows up first. In the New Testament, the fruit is not just something Christians are supposed to produce. It is embodied in the life of Jesus. Jesus is not only the tea

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