In The Word Read: Acts 11:19-30 The Church at Antioch 19 So then those who were scattered because of the persecution that occurred in connection with Stephen made their way to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone. 20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, […]
Month: June 2019
Unity in Disagreement
In The Word Read: Acts 11:1-18 Peter Reports at Jerusalem 11 Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those who were circumcised took issue with him, 3 saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.” […]
All Nations in the Harvest
In The Word Read: Acts 10:34-48 Gentiles Hear Good News 34 Opening his mouth, Peter said: “I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, 35 but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.36 The word which He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching […]
Full Counsel of the Word
In The Word Read: Acts 9:43-10:33 43 And Peter stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon. Cornelius’s Vision 10 Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort, 2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the […]
Authority in His Name
In The Word Read: Acts 9:32-42 Peter’s Ministry 32 Now as Peter was traveling through all those regions, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. 33 There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years, for he was paralyzed. 34 Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up […]
Naysayers
In The Word Read: Acts 9:19b-31 19 and he took food and was strengthened. Saul Begins to Preach Christ Now for several days he was with the disciples who were at Damascus, 20 and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.” 21 All those hearing him continued to be amazed, […]
Saul’s Conversion
In The Word Read: Acts 9:1-19a The Conversion of Saul 9 Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring […]
The Ethiopian Eunuch
In The Word Read: Acts 8:26-40 26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, “Get up and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a desert road.) 27 So he got up and went; and there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, […]
Pure Motives
In The Word Read: Acts 8:5-25 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them.6 The crowds with one accord were giving attention to what was said by Philip, as they heard and saw the signs which he was performing. 7 For in the case of many who had unclean spirits, they were […]
Suffering for His Namesake
In The Word Read: Acts 7:44-8:4 44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen. 45 And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God […]