Message: In Acts 16Paul was carrying on the task of delivering letters to the churches. He had Timothy with him and it seems ironic, but he was delivering letters letting the churches know that they do not have to be... Continue reading →

Message: In Acts 15 some men came from Judea and started teaching the new gentile believers that they had to be circumcised and follow the law or they couldn’t really be saved. This caused some sharp debate so the apostles... Continue reading →

Message: In Acts chapter 14 Paul and Barnabas preached in Lystra and when God healed a man through them the town thought they were gods and began trying to make sacrifices to them. Paul and Barnabas tried to tell them... Continue reading →

Message: In Acts 13 the church is fasting and praying and the Holy Spirit tells them to send out Paul & Barnabas on mission. They go exactly where the Holy Spirit leads them and are invited to speak in a... Continue reading →

Message: InChapter 11 of Acts Peter finds himself having to explain himself to the other believers when they all found out that he went inside the home of a gentile and also ate the forbidden foods. It’s interesting to read... Continue reading →

Message: In Acts 10 there is quite an orchestration going on by God, but each person sees only his own little part of it until it all comes together. What really amazed me here is that each of them had... Continue reading →

Message: In Acts 9 Saul is at war against all those who call on the name of Jesus. He is on a personal mission to arrest and throw into prison any of them that he can find because he fully... Continue reading →

Message: So much is going on in Acts 8. After Stephen was stoned to death it seemed to launch a wave of persecution throughout the church and Saul was known for leading much of it by going house to house... Continue reading →

Message: In Acts 7, Stephen had been brought before the Sanhedrin council and was falsely accused of blasphemy. Specifically, he was accused of saying that Jesus came to change the customs that Moses had handed down to their ancestors. They... Continue reading →

Message: In Acts 6 as the church was growing, complaints started coming in that the widows were not being properly cared for. The apostles listened to these complaints and chose 7 men “of good reputation, full of the Spirit and... Continue reading →

Message: Two things really spoke to me in Acts 5 and they seemed like separate things, but they really aren’t. At the beginning of the chapter, Ananias and Saphira saw other people selling their land and donating the entire profit... Continue reading →

Message: In Acts 4 Peter and John were taken before the priests for questioning about the paralyzed man that was healed. They asked them “under what power, or under what name” this man was healed. They wanted to punish them... Continue reading →

Message: In Acts 3 Peter and John were walking to the temple for prayer when they saw the same paralyzed man they had seen begging for years. AS I was reading this I was thinking about the sudden transformation in... Continue reading →

Message: In Acts 2 the apostles were all gathered together in one place just as Jesus told them to do. The Holy Spirit filled the room and then filled them all. They began speaking in other languages as the Spirit... Continue reading →

Message: Proverbs 1 introduces us to a monologue style script of wisdom personified. Back in the days that I used to bounce around parts of the bible to read I didn’t quite understand that it was wisdom speaking here and... Continue reading →

Message: In John 21 the disciples have another surprise encounter with Jesus. After three years of following Jesus they returned to what they knew. Fishing. They didn’t catch anything and on the way in Jesus tells them to put the... Continue reading →

Message: In John 19 Pilate has Jesus flogged to try to appease the Jewish leaders. He questioned Jesus but he brought him back outside where the Jewish leaders were waiting and told them he found no legal grounds or charging... Continue reading →

Message:  In John 18 Jesus is arrested and being tried by the priests and the Roman officials. While the priests were fabricating charges the Roman officials were telling them they found no fault in him. While all of this is... Continue reading →