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Ananias Answers the Call
2023-01-30 08:15 Acts 9:10-19. Meanwhile, there is a follower of Christ in Damascus named Ananias. While Saul was going through his "three days of darkness," the Lord speaks to Ananias and tells him to go in search of...
Darkness is Where We Seek the Light
2023-01-29 10:11 Acts 9:1-9. Back in Jerusalem, Saul is still "breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord." He goes to the high priest and asks for letters to the synagogues at Damascus so that he ...
Waiting for a Philip
2023-01-28 10:56 Acts 8:25-40. Peter and John return to Jerusalem, preaching to other Samaritan towns as they go, but Philip is called by an angel to go on a desert road toward Gaza. On that road, returning to Ethiopi...
Our Newly Converted Magician Makes a Misstep
2023-01-27 08:33 Acts 8:14-24. When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had converted, they sent Peter and John there to pray with and for the people, that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for they had onl...
A Magician Sees the Light!
2023-01-26 10:45 Acts 8:4-13. The believers who scattered from Jerusalem went about preaching the Gospel. Philip went to a town in Samaria "and the multitudes with one accord gave heed to what was said by Philip, when...
How is Jesus Christ the Word? (A special bonus edition of my daily blog! )
2023-01-25 16:14 A friend recently asked "How is Jesus the Word?" and I have been thinking about how to answer him. I have a lot of thoughts on this, and what feels like an understanding of it, but how do I put it int...
Saul Goes All In
2023-01-25 10:10 Acts 8:1-3. Stephen has just been stoned to death, with Saul consenting to his death. "And on that day, a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem". The new believers scattered through ...
When Cognitive Dissonance Wakes Up
2023-01-23 17:29 Acts 7:54-60. When Stephen finishes his lengthy testimony tying Christ to the promises of the Old Testament and reminding the council that the Jewish leaders have often persecuted prophets, the counci...
Stephen's Testimony Concludes - We're All on the Same Journey
2023-01-21 11:08 Acts 7:44-53. Stephen concludes his testimony before the council by reminding them that Moses made the tent of meeting according to God's instructions as a place where God would commune with Moses...
Stephen's Testimony Part VI - Making Connections
2023-01-20 08:41 Acts 7:35-43. Stephen continues: So the same Moses who the Jews asked "Who made you a ruler and a judge?" was sent back to Egypt by God to be the Jews' ruler and deliverer. He performed many wonde...