Genesis 1:1-5 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was...
Acts 12 is our text for today. I encourage you to follow along with your Bible or Bible app. The story takes place in Jerusalem. 12 It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. 2 He had James, the...
For the last two weeks, we have explored the topic of Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Two weeks ago, we talked about how God is at work in the moments of our lives when He asks us to wait on Him. Last week we talked about the “Pentecost prayers” that...
We observe Pentecost as the day the Holy Spirit empowered God’s people to speak languages they had never learned so that people who were gathered in Jerusalem could hear the Word of God clearly in their own language. It was a mass miracle in that all 120 people who...
Acts 1:1-8 1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he presented himself to...
Hebrews 12:1-3-1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the...
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