One of the best things that you can do for your faith in 2026 is to make reading your Bible a regular habit.

Join 10-minute Bible Talks, study of the Gospels by downloading the 2026 Bible reading plan

and reading a Bible passage that goes with each day's podcast episode.

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plan in today's show notes. Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your

life and the time it takes to get to work. I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

The start of a new year often begins with shouts of joy, streamers, kissing, hopeful anticipation of what is to come.

It offers people the feeling of a chance to start over, maybe to make a change to make

this year different.

On the last day of 2025, I want to offer us space to rest. Before the celebrations, before your resolutions kick in, before you go back

to school or work and life picks up again, I wanted to offer you an invitation to pause, to reflect on

God, to reflect on his presence in this moment with you right now, wherever you are, to remember the

ways that he has been with you in each moment this year, to recognize the places that he has provided, protected, sustained

you. And of course, to look forward, to surrender the coming year into his hands, to re-center your

focus, your goals, your aims for the next year on living in step with God, experiencing his presence, resting in his plans for your year.

So today might feel a little different than normal, but I hope it's a refreshing moment of pause

and reflection before the year ahead. So will you join me in praying through Isaiah 55 today?

Come everyone who thirsts. Come to the waters. And he who has no money, come buy and eat.

Come buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Lord God, may we heed your invitation today.

We come before you, thirsty, hungry, in need, desperately unable to satisfy our desires.

So we come to you to the one who offers us the gift of life without cost.

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