Acts 2:32-35 “God raised Jesus from the dead, and we are all witnesses of this. Now he is exalted to the place of highest honor in heaven, at God’s right hand. And the Father, as he had promised, gave him the Holy Spirit to pour out upon us, just as you see and hear today.… Read More »
Defilement and Cleansing
Numbers 9:6-7 Now there were certain men who were defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron that day. And those men said to him, “We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the offering… Read More »
Great Grace
Acts 4:33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. The power with which the Apostles gave testimony to the resurrection of Christ was by the grace of God yielding the Christ-like attitude and Christ like impact of this early church.… Read More »
Peace
Acts 7:1 Then the high priest said, “Are these things so?” Stephen was a man who knew where to find peace. The peace he found was not in other people, not in government, not in religion, but in God. This was important because Stephen had been railroaded by those of the Synagogue of the Freedmen,… Read More »
I Do
Acts 9:36 At Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds which she did. Acts 9:37 But it happened in those days that she became sick and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. Acts… Read More »
On Grace
Acts 11:18 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.” It does seem to me that the grace of God is quite remarkable. It’s like a flood of water that seeks to saturate every nook and cranny, cutting off… Read More »
Nothing to the Table
Acts 13:23 From this man’s seed, according to the promise, God raised up for Israel a Savior—Jesus—after John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. Paul, speaking to the congregation of the synagog in Antioch of Pisidia, reminds them that God promised to raise up a… Read More »
Influence
Acts 16:1 (NKJV) Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father was Greek. Despite Timothy’s father having been an unbeliever, Timothy’s mother was able to be a godly influence in his life. Paul’s second letter… Read More »
Real Truth
Ephesians 4:17-19 (NKJV) This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of… Read More »
Companionship
Acts 20:4-7 (NKJV) And Sopater of Berea accompanied him to Asia—also Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. These men, going ahead, waited for us at Troas. But we sailed away from Philippi after the Days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days joined… Read More »