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You do not need an hour, a study guide, or a seminary degree to understand the Bible or to pray with it. You need about a minute.

One Minute In The Word is a daily devotional for people who already believe and simply want to understand Scripture more clearly: how it fits together, how it can become part of prayer, and how it speaks into an ordinary life today.

Each day offers one page and about one minute — a short passage of Scripture, a few plain words about what it means and where it belongs, a brief prayer, and one line to carry with you into the day.

Over the course of a year, the devotional moves gently through the Bible, book by book. It is not a study to master or a schedule to keep up with. Instead, it offers a quiet and steady way in. No previous knowledge is required, and when one passage connects to another, those connections are made clear so that, little by little, the larger story begins to come together.

And there is no catching up.

Miss a day. Miss a week. Put the book down until next spring. When you return, simply begin with today’s date.

This book was built to be re-entered, not finished.

For anyone who has started reading the Bible and quietly stopped. For anyone tired of devotionals that promise too much and say too little. And for anyone who wants to understand the Book they already love, one unhurried minute at a time.