2024-04-06 09:31 (This post was first published on 12/17/22, please take that into account with any references to “current events”.)   Acts 2:5-13. There were Jews from "every nation under heaven" in Jerusalem at th...

2024-04-05 09:28 Acts 2:1-4. When the day of Pentecost came, the apostles were still gathered in the upper room. Suddenly, a loud sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind that filled the entire house, and...

2024-04-04 07:42 Acts 1:15-26. Peter stands up among the approximately 120 people who are waiting in Jerusalem with the apostles and says that they must replace Judas Iscariot, Jesus' betrayer, so that there will ...

2024-04-03 09:24 Acts 1:12-14. The eleven remaining disciples return to Jerusalem from the place where the Ascension had taken place, a mount called Olivet near Jerusalem. They go back to the upper room where they had...

2024-04-02 09:22 Acts 1:10-11. As the disciples are gazing up after the ascended Jesus, two men in white robes appear standing by them. These men ask "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus w...

2024-04-01 09:19 (I am reposting my Acts of the Apostles series from a few years ago. The following was first published 12/12/2022)   Acts 1:1-9. After His resurrection, Jesus came back to His disciples and showed H...

2024-03-28 08:30 Amos 4:11. "I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," says the Lord. (I am not sure why Amos...

2024-03-27 09:15 Isaiah 39:3-4. "Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, 'What did these men say? And when did they come to you?' Hezekiah said, 'They have come to me from a far cou...

2024-03-26 06:37 Jeremiah 6:9. "Glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches."   When we get impatient with God (or is that just me?:) for letting al...

2024-03-25 09:01 Wisdom 7:16. "For both we and our words are in his hand, as are all understanding and skill in crafts."   Solomon is extolling the virtues of wisdom, which God has granted to him - "I prayed and und...