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Saturday, May 18, 2024 Acts 28: 16 - 20, 30 - 31 Upon our entry into Rome Paul was allowed to take a lodging of his own, although a soldier was assigned to keep guard over him. Three days later Paul invited the prominent men of the Jewish community to visit him. When they had gathered he said...

Friday, May 17, 2024 Acts 25: 13 - 21 King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid Festus a courtesy call. Since they were to spend several days there, Festus referred Paul's case to the king. "There is a prisoner here," he said, "whom Felix left behind in custody. While I was in...

Thursday, May 16, 2024 Acts 22: 30; 23: 6 - 11 The next day the commander released Paul from prison, intending to look carefully into the charge which the Jews were bringing against him. He summoned the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to a meeting; then he brought Paul down and made him...

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Acts 20: 28 - 38 At Miletus, Paul spoke to the presbyters of the Church of Ephesus: "Keep watch over yourselves, and over the whole flock the Holy Spirit has given you to guard. Shepherd the Church of God, which he has acquired at the price of his own blood, I know that...

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Acts 1: 15 - 17, 20 - 26 At one point during those days, Peter stood up in the center of the brothers; there must have been a hundred and twenty gathered together. "Brothers," he said, "the saying in Scripture uttered long ago by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David...

Monday, May 13, 2024 Acts 19: 1 - 8 While Appollos was in Corinth, Paul passed through the interior of the country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples to whom he put the question, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?" They answered, "We have not so much as...

Sunday, May 12, 2024 Acts 1: 1 - 11 In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had...

Saturday, May 11, 2024 Acts 18: 23 - 28 After spending some time in Antioch, Paul set out again, traveling systematically through the Galatian country and Phrygia to reassure all his disciples. A Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria and a man of eloquence, arrived by ship at Ephesus. He...

Friday, May 10, 2024 Acts 18: 9 - 18 One night while Paul was in Corinth, the Lord said to him in a vision, "Do not be afraid. Go on speaking and do not be silent, for I am with you. No one will attack and harm you, for I have many people in this city." He settled there for a year and a half and...

Thursday, May 9, 2024 Acts 18: 1 - 8 Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them and, because he practiced the...

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 Acts 17: 15, 22 - - 18:1 Paul was taken as far as Athens by his escort, who then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible. Then Paul stood up in the Areopagus and delivered this Address: "Men of Athens, I note that in every respect...

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Acts 16: 16 - 34 It was while we were on our way out to the place of prayer that we met a slave girl who had a clairvoyant spirit. She used to bring substantial profit to her masters by fortune telling. The girl began to follow Paul and the rest of us shouting, "These men...

Monday, May 6, 2024 Acts 16: 11 - 15 We put out to sea from Troas and set a course straight for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis; from there we went to Philippi, a leading city in the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We spent some time in that city. Once, on the Sabbath, we...

Sunday, May 5, 2024 Acts 10: 25 - 26, 34 - 35, 44 - 48 As Peter entered, Cornelius went to meet him, dropped to his knees before him and bowed low. Peter said as he helped him to his feet, "Get up! I am only a man myself." Peter proceeded to address them in these words: "I begin to see how true...

Saturday, May 4, 2024 Acts 16: 1 - 10 Paul arrived first at Derbe; next he came to Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, whose mother was Jewish and a believer, and whose father was a Greek. Since the brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him, Paul was anxious to have him...

Friday, May 3, 2024 First letter of Paul to the Corinthians 15: 1 - 8 I am reminding you, brothers and sisters, of the Gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand. Through it you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you unless you...

Thursday, May 2, 2024 Acts 15: 7 - 21 After much discussion, Peter took the floor and said to them: "Brothers, you know well enough that from the early days God selected me from your number to be the one from whose lips the Gentiles would hear the message of the gospel and believe. God, who...

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Acts 15: 1 - 6 Some men came down to Antioch from Judea and began to teach the brothers: "Unless you are circumcised according to Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved." This created dissension and much controversy between them and Paul and Barnabas. Finally it was decided...

Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Acts 14: 19 - 28 Just at that point, some Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived and won the people over. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, leaving him there for dead. His disciples quickly formed a circle about him, and before long he got up and went back...

Monday, April 29, 2024 Acts 14: 5 - 18 A move was made by Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, to abuse and stone Paul and Barnabas. When Paul and Barnabas learned of this, they fled to the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country, where they continued to...