Acts 8:9-13 – Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, 10 and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.” 11 They followed him because he…
Continue ReadingActs 8:1a – And Saul approved of their killing him. Here, in the Word of God, is the clear truth that Saul, who would become the great Apostle Paul, who was inspired by God to write much of the New Testament, is named as being at the killing of the first Christian Martyr and approving of it. He…
Continue ReadingActs 7:1-53 / 54-60 – When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. 55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man…
Continue Reading1 Corinthians 13:4a – Love never fails. Mark 12:31 – The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. Mark 11:25-26 – Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions. 26[“But if you do not forgive, neither will…
Continue ReadingPsalm 119:105 – Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. Isaiah 40:8 – The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the Word of our God endures forever. Isaiah 55:11 – So is my Word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the…
Continue ReadingPsalm 37:4 – “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Matthew 6:33 – “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Matthew 6:21 – “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Fill in the blank of the…
Continue ReadingJohn 14:17b-19 – “…But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.” “But you know Him, for He lives with you…
Continue ReadingActs 7:1-51 / 37-39 – “This is the Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.’ 38 He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living words to pass on to us. 39 “But our…
Continue ReadingActs 7:1-51 / 35-36 – “This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 He led them out of Egypt and performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and…
Continue ReadingProverbs 25:14 – Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given. “’Good intentions stink,’ that’s what my pastor said” a brother in the Lord told me many moons ago. At first, not being sure of the intent of the statement, I wasn’t sure I agreed with the statement. After all, doesn’t…
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