Acts

Jun 7
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June 7 AM - Pentecost II - Acts 2:1-11

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Feb 27
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February 27 - Acts 28

Dig Deeper FRIENDLY BARBARIANS: The friendly people that rescue Paul and his shipmates on the island of Malta were neither Jewish, Greek ...

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Feb 26
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February 26 - Acts 27

Dig Deeper: RESPECT: A Roman centurion would need to be a fearsome leader. He expected absolute allegiance from his soldiers and perfect ...

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Feb 25
2 min

February 25 - Acts 26

Dig Deeper: COMPARED TO CREATION, RESURRECTION IS NO BIG DEAL: All through the ages one of the biggest hangups people have with Christian...

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Feb 24
2 min

February 24 - Acts 25

Dig Deeper: THIS SEEMS LIKE A RERUN: This chapter can seem like just a repeat of earlier chapters: Paul is being kicked around the variou...

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Feb 21
2 min

February 21 - Acts 24

Dig Deeper: GOOD FRIDAY, PART II: If you have children who are reading along with you, a good question to ask them would be to name simil...

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Feb 20
2 min

February 20 - Acts 23

Dig Deeper: BETTER THAN TELEVISION: Dramatic speeches, subplots, an ambush sanctioned by the chief priest, a narrow escape facilitated by...

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Feb 19
1 min

February 19 - Acts 22

Dig Deeper: FOLLOW PAUL'S EXAMPLE: Evangelism is the scariest discipline we are called to practice as Christians, but Paul provides a goo...

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Feb 18
2 min

February 18 - Acts 21

Dig Deeper: THY WILL BE DONE... AS SOON AS I FIGURE OUT WHAT THY WILL IS: We all desire to do God's will, but it can be so hard to determ...

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Feb 17
2 min

February 17 - Acts 20

Dig Deeper: BORED TO DEATH: We've been noticing Luke's dry, understated sense of humor (Luke is the author of Acts). The story of Eutychu...

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Feb 14
2 min

February 14 - Acts 19

Dig Deeper: IDOLATRY IS BIG BUSINESS - The Roman empire had a robust freedom of religion. One could worship any god they chose, any way t...

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Feb 13
2 min

February 13 - Acts 18

Dig Deeper: WHAT HAPPENS IN CORINTH DOESN'T STAY IN CORINTH: The bulk of this chapter takes place in Corinth, a city that Jesus has a mas...

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Feb 12
2 min

February 12 - Acts 17

Dig Deeper: HAVE A TALK: Twice in this chapter we are told that Paul 'reasoned' with people (v2, 17). Literally, he had a dialog with th...

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Feb 11
2 min

February 11 - Acts 16

Dig Deeper: LADIES FIRST: There's a major misconception by much of the world that because the Bible mandates male headship in the home an...

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Feb 10
2 min

February 10 - Acts 15

Dig Deeper: NO ULTIMATUMS: Anytime a condition is added to the gospel in the form of 'unless you do X, you cannot be saved (v1),' run the...

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Feb 7
3 min

February 7 - Acts 14

Dig Deeper: STILL GOING: This chapter opens with Paul & Barnabas going to the synagogue 'as usual.' Even with the extraordinary ways that...

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Feb 6
3 min

February 6 - Acts 13

Dig Deeper: SMART IDEA: We read in v7 that because the proconsul was an intelligent man, he wanted to hear the word of God. There is a p...

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Feb 5
3 min

February 5 - Acts 12

Dig Deeper: A MAJOR AWARD: When we looked at Jesus' instructions on prayer a few weeks ago, we learned that the hypocrites who pray in or...

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Feb 4
3 min

February 4 - Acts 11

Dig Deeper: NOBODY LIKES CHANGE: Word of Peter going into a Gentile's home made it back to Jerusalem before he did; that's how shocking a...

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Feb 3
3 min

February 3 - Acts 10

Dig Deeper: WHAT WERE YOU DOING WHEN IT HAPPENED? - Yesterday we saw that Jesus encountered Saul when he was in the middle of a trip. To...

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