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God Answers Even When We Don't Know to Ask
2023-02-04 10:46 Acts 10:1-8. (The next few days will be the story of Peter and Cornelius that I blogged about in Peter Models Our Mission, so I will focus on different aspects of the story in these days of journaling...
Peter is Shown to Be Jesus' Successor
2023-02-03 10:22 Acts 9:32-43. As Peter is going about preaching, he comes to Lydda where he meets a bedridden, paralyzed man named Aeneas. Peter says to him "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed" an...
Let's Try to Be Like Barnabas
2023-02-02 11:35 Acts 9:26-31. Saul attempts to join the disciples in Jerusalem but they are afraid of him and do not believe that he is a true disciple. But Barnabas takes up Saul's cause and brings him to the ap...
Paul Is No Longer Welcome in Damascus
2023-02-01 10:01 Acts 9:20-25. Immediately after regaining his sight and being baptized, Saul begins preaching Jesus Christ as the Son of God in the synagogues of Damascus. All who hear him are surprised and amazed. T...
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...