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The Limits of Mosaic Law
2023-02-21 10:16 Acts 13:33-41. Paul concludes his testimony to the Jews in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia by quoting from the psalms and prophets to further identify Jesus and to warn against disbelief. With reg...
Blindly Fulfilling Prophecies
2023-02-20 07:40 Acts 13:26-33. Paul continues testifying to the assembly in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia. Having just finished a short Jewish history, ending by saying that Jesus is the promised Savior, Paul g...
Remember What God Has Promised
2023-02-19 17:09 Acts 13:17-25. Paul begins his testimony in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia by giving a very brief summary of Jewish history leading up to Jesus' arrival. He reminds the assembled Jews that Go...
Exciting Times to Be Alive!
2023-02-18 10:54 Acts 13:13-16. Paul and those with him leave Paphos and come to Perga. There John leaves them and returns to Jerusalem. The rest go from Perga to Antioch of Pasadia. On the Sabbath day, they go into t...
Seeing Christianity as Fulfillment or Threat
2023-02-17 10:33 Acts 13:1-12. Back in Antioch, Barnabas and Saul are praying with other prophets and teachers when the Holy Spirit tells the group that Barnabas and Saul are to be set aside for a mission. The group l...
Herod Agrippa's Ignoble End
2023-02-16 13:07 Acts 12:18-25. When morning comes and it is found that Peter is gone from prison, Herod is furious and questions each of the guards, then has them all put to death. Then he goes from Judea to Cesarea,...
What if a Miracle's Knocking at the Gate?
2023-02-15 09:41 Acts 12:12-17. When he realizes he has been freed by the angel, Peter goes to the house of Mary, mother of John (also known as Mark), where many disciples are gathered and praying. He knocks on the do...
Freedom and the Willingness to Act
2023-02-14 10:49 Acts 12:6-11. The very night Herod intends to bring Peter out of prison to face the Jews, as Peter is sleeping, bound in chains between two guards, an angel comes to him in prison. The angel strikes P...
Time to Pray Earnestly!!
2023-02-13 08:54 Acts 12:1-5. Herod has begun to treat the new church with violence. He has the apostle James killed by the sword, and when he sees that is pleasing to the Jewish leaders, he has Peter arrested as well...
There Will Always Be Prophets (and Sometimes They Are Us!)
2023-02-11 10:41 Acts 11:27-30. In those days, prophets came to Antioch from Jerusalem and one, named Agabus, "stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world," and this came ...