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Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Hey, I'm David Platt.

I want to thank you for joining us for Pray the Word where we just spend time each day on this podcast just reading through

a verse or two of scripture, talking about what we just books of the Bible over the course of several days or weeks and just choose a verse or two

from each chapter and move from chapter to chapter each day.

But today we're going to start something a little new for a series through 1st Corinthians, where

we're going to spend an entire week of Pray the Word episodes, so seven Pray the Word episodes in one chapter.

Part of this is because McLean Bible Church,

where I have the privilege of pasturing

in Greater Washington, D.C.

We're walking through a sermon series

where I'm preaching from a chapter in 1st Corinthians on one

Sunday and then the rest of that week each day we're reading the same chapter and instead

of kind of reading for breadth as far as a lot of

scripture reading for depth and really diving deep into that chapter.

So I thought it would be helpful not just for the members of our church who follow along with

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