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Read Acts 22 “For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.” (Acts 22:15-16) Food For Thought… “What are you waiting [...]
Read Acts 21???????? ????? ???????? So when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The will of the Lord be done.” (Acts 21:14) Food For Thought… “God willing!” For the Christian, that is either a fundamental guiding principle of life or nothing more than a vacuous platitude. You hear [...]
Read Acts 20 “Paul was preaching, and since he was leaving the next day, he kept talking until midnight…Paul continued talking until dawn, then he left.” (Acts 20:7 & 11) Food For Thought… I used to be a big fan of the twenty-minute sermon. I still am, in fact, when [...]
Read Acts 19 And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds. Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver. [...]
Read Acts 19 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only [...]
Read Acts 17 “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.” (Acts 17:6) Thoughts… Someone once quipped, “if you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?” That is a great question, really, and extremely convicting! In Paul’s case, he [...]
Read Acts 16 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. (Acts 16:25) Thoughts… Bible teacher and author Warren Wiersby wrote about his recovery from a serious automobile accident. In the hospital, he began receiving letters of encouragement [...]
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