Halloween in Our Culture In our culture, Halloween has become a time for people to dress up, attend parties, or ask friends and neighbors for treats. This highly commercialized time focuses on haunted houses, telling scary stories, and horror films.…
Acts 3 demonstrates the power of God by confirming the words spoken by Peter and John with miraculous healing that they later describe in Acts 4:10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of…
God’s promise is being fulfilled in Acts 2:17 “And in the last days, God says, ‘I will pour out my spirit on all people.” Peter’s message in Acts 2 is called by some apostolic preaching and is something we could…
As we begin praying we are seeking the manifestation of God’s kingdom on earth as Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6:10 “May your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” And,…
Paul and all of his shipmates are safely delivered to Malta and they are greeted kindly by the local inhabitants. We learn something about local beliefs as Paul is bitten by a viper in Acts 28:4 they began saying to…
Paul has been held in prison for two years and now, finally, he comes before the new governor Festus and King Agrippa, and they include all of the chief men of the city. Paul gives an account of his own…
Paul’s trial continues, now at the seat of the Roman government of the region, in Caesarea. Felix the governor hears from the high priests’ lawyer and then from Paul. Paul simply lays out the facts and calls for the men…
Paul is accused and because of the outcry of the crowd in the city, the military tribune takes Paul into custody. Paul asks to speak to the crowd and gives testimony of his life beginning with his persecution of Christians…
The Lord says that he will show us things to come and Paul has heard from the Holy Spirit as he says that he is in Acts 20:22–23 “bound by the Spirit I am traveling to Jerusalem”. Yet along the…
Speaking Boldly For the Lord Acts 14:1–7 He Leaped Up and Began Walking Acts 14:8–13 In Generations That Are Past Acts 14:14–20 They Reported All That God Had Done Acts 14:21–28 He Made No Distinction Between Us…
Peter and John were commissioned to preach this gospel of the kingdom and to be witnesses of what they had experienced in their relationship with Jesus Christ. But this was threatening to the religious authority who questioned them in Acts…
This is the day of Pentecost and as the Holy Spirit has come, a crowd has gathered and Peter begins to speak. Peter quotes from the Psalms of David, who the Jewish people respected as a great king and that…
After the crucifixion of Jesus, there had been some stir about his empty tomb but it was now fifty days later, the day of Pentecost. This was the day that Israel celebrated the firstfruits of the harvest. This was a…
Again and again the Lord brings the word of the covenant to the people by the prophet. The words are specific about their sin in Jeremiah 7:9 “Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will…
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