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Three companion studies for self-paced reading or small-group use. Each one is free, ad-free and built to honor the text it walks through.
150 of 150 psalms · daily reading
Daily Psalms
One psalm a day, attributed to the original singer
The full Book of Psalms, broken into a single daily reading. Each entry carries the canonical author (David, the sons of Korah, Asaph, etc.), the genre and emotional voice it was written in, and a short reflection in the voice of contemporary poet Bea Zalel. Color-coded by canonical book.
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6-session study
Pluribus and Daniel
Resistance, community, and the self
A six-session study pairing the narrative chapters of Daniel with the themes of Apple TV+'s Pluribus (Vince Gilligan, 2025). Pluribus is not a Christian show, but it is working a deeply biblical question: what makes a person a person, and what is the right shape of human community? Daniel asks the same question from inside a different empire. The sessions are arranged here as a sustained argument moving from small daily dissent to the gospel's vision of unity-with-difference. Each session pairs a Daniel passage with cross-references and discusses the show's themes carefully — no plot spoilers in the questions, so the study works for viewers and non-viewers alike.
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21-session study
Book of John
Chapter-by-chapter, in the world it was first heard
A twenty-one-session walk-through of the Gospel of John, one chapter at a time. Each session reconstructs the 1st-century world the chapter was first heard in — the religious assumptions of a Jewish reader, the philosophical assumptions of a Gentile reader, the lived realities of poverty, occupation, illness, and grief that the original audience took for granted. Authored in the Bea Zalel voice with scholarship citations and further-reading links per session.
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Scripture quotations, where shown verbatim, use the Berean Standard Bible (BSB). Click-through links to passages also expose NIV, ESV, NLT and MSG side-by-sides.