Message:  In Acts 23 Paul was taken before the Sanhedrin to be questioned. The priest ordered for him to be smacked in the mouth because he believed Paul was lying about his integrity. They used the law to accuse him... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 22 Paul hadn’t been in Jerusalem long before trouble found him just as God had warned. Not only did he ignore the recent warnings coming from the Holy Spirit through people, but we also find out that... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 21 Paul was being warned not to go to Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit spoke through several different people and even warned him of what the Jews would do to him when he got there. Paul was undeterred.... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 20 Paul was traveling, teaching and ministering all kinds of miracles. He learned that the Jews had plotted against him so he was advised to reroute his plans. He ended up in Troas where he spoke for... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 19 there is so much going on that it was hard to zone in on one thought. Paul introduced some disciples to the Holy Spirit by filling in the gaps in their teaching and then baptizing them... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 18 Paul left Athens and went to Corinth where he met Aquila and Priscilla, a couple who ended up in Corinth after the Jews were ordered to leave Rome. The scriptures don’t go into detail about their... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 17 Paul and the gang continued their ministry by starting in the synagogues and reasoning with the Jews. He wrestled with scripture and showed them why Jesus was the promised Messiah, but this only stirred up the... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 16 Paul met Timothy. He had an excellent reputation but because his mother was Jewish and his father was Greek Paul circumcised him in order to bring him along to travel. This seems like a contradiction to... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 15 Paul and Barnabas were in Antioch and some men came from Judea and began teaching the new gentile believers that they couldn’t be saved unless they were circumcised. Since they were gentiles none of them had... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 14 Paul & Barnabas went to the town of Iconium after the Jews had stirred up trouble. Trouble followed them to Iconium so when they preached the Jews countered them and “poisoned their minds of the Gentiles... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 13 the Holy Spirit instructed the church to send out Paul & Barnabas so they fasted, prayed and laid hands on them to go. After sailing to Cyprus and ministering all over the island they came across... Continue reading →

Thinking about this I looked back to raising my kids. We had a basic set of rules because although children are innocent in their understanding, they are born as tiny little narcissistic sociopaths. They want what they want when they... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 12 persecution was bad. Herod had just had James executed and it was clearly a political move because when he saw this pleased the Jews he had Peter imprisoned and scheduled for execution as well. Peter was... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 11 word had gotten back to the Jews that Peter was eating unlawful food and eating with Gentiles. Peter was back in Jerusalem explaining the vision God had given him about the unclean animals being made clean.... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 10 a man named Cornelius had a vision and so did Peter. The visions they each had were connected to each other and for each of them it required a step of faith. Peter was walking in... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 9 Saul was full throttle at destroying the church. He had papers in hand giving him permission to take any man or woman who was part of the church and imprison them. On his way through he... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 8 Saul who would later become Paul was fiercely persecuting the church. This persecution caused the believers to scatter but this didn’t slow the spread of the gospel. It actually promoted it. When the believers spread out... Continue reading →

Message:  In 2 Samuel 6 King David was building and establishing his kingdom when he remembered the ark of the covenant and decided to bring it home to the City of David. David, with good intentions decided to bring it... Continue reading →

Message:  Acts chapter 6 shows us that the church exploded with growth to the point that there were complaints coming up among the Jews that their widows weren’t being financially cared for. As I processed through this it reminded me... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 5 Peter & John were on trial once again for preaching, teaching and healing in the name of Jesus. It seemed the problem was not so much that people were healed, it was that they were continuing... Continue reading →