{"podcast":{"title":"BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women","slug":"big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023","podcast_index_feed_id":10023,"rss_url":"https://biglifehq.com/feed/podcast/","website_url":"https://biglifehq.com/blog/","image_url":"https://biglifehq.com/wp-content/uploads/BL-Devo-V2-min.jpg","author":"Pamela Crim | Daily Devotional for Women","episode_count":100,"summary":"Daily Devotional with Pamela Crim | BIG Life Mentor","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T04:19:50.714177+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023"},"episode":{"title":"2159 In the Name of Jesus","slug":"2159-in-the-name-of-jesus","published_at":"2026-07-17T13:23:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/2159-in-the-name-of-jesus","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023","url":"https://biglifehq.com/2026/07/2159-in-the-name-of-jesus/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/big_life_devotional/content.blubrry.com/big_life_devotional/2159BLDevo-In_the_Name_of_Jesus.mp3","summary":"There are probably things you do every day without really knowing why you do them. Think about it. When we meet someone new, we shake hands. But why? The original purpose was to show that your weapon hand was empty and that you came in peace. Most of us aren’t checking each other for concealed swords anymore, yet the handshake remains. We do it because it’s what we’ve always done. Or take Daylight Saving Time. Twice a year, many of us change our clocks and grumble about losing an hour of sleep or it getting dark too early. Ask the average person why we still do it, and most aren’t quite sure. We just know it’s time to change the clocks again. Even the phrases we use have outlived their original purpose. We still say, “Hang up the phone,” even though most people haven’t hung a phone on anything in decades. And let’s be honest—tapping the “End Call” button just doesn’t have the same satisfaction as slamming down a receiver! One of my favorite examples comes from a friend of mine. Every holiday, she cut the end off the ham before putting it in the oven. One day I asked her why. “Because that’s how you’re supposed to do it,” she said. I told her that’s not the way I do it. Unsatisfied with that answer, she asked her grandmother why she taught her to cut the end off the ham. Her grandmother laughed and said, “Because my baking pan was too small.” For 50 years, a tradition had been passed down from generation to generation, long after the too small baking pan no longer existed. It got me thinking: How many things am I doing simply because I’ve always done them? How many things have I been taught that I’ve never really stopped to examine? And then one…","meta_description":"There are probably things you do every day without really knowing why you do them. Think about it. When we meet someone new, we shake hands. But why? The…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1466,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/episodes/2159-in-the-name-of-jesus/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/2159-in-the-name-of-jesus.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}