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Back to SearchActs 10:24-48: No One Off the List
Peter crosses a threshold no faithful Jew of his day would cross: he walks into a Gentile's house and opens with a confession, that God has shown him…
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Acts 9:32-10:23: Rise Aeneas! Rise Tabitha! Rise Peter!
The word "rise" rings through these chapters like a bell. A paralyzed man rises from a mat he hadn't left in eight years. A dead woman named Tabitha …
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Free-Text First Friday: Two Kinds of Freedom
As the nation marks its 250th birthday, we take up the word at the heart of the celebration: freedom. Civil freedom is a genuine, God-given good, wor…
1 month ago
Acts 9:1-31: Ambushed by Grace
A man bent on wiping out the church was on the road to arrest more Christians when a light knocked him to the ground and a voice asked why he was per…
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Acts 8:26-40: A Stranger on the Desert Road
An important official from a faraway court is riding home, reading a scroll he cannot understand, when God sends Philip to run alongside the chariot.…
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Acts 8:1-25: The Church Grows as the Persecution Increases
Persecution breaks out, the believers scatter, and what looks like the worst thing that could happen to the church becomes the means by which the gos…
1 month ago
Acts 7:23-60: Forgiving the Stones
It is hard to imagine praying for the people actively trying to kill you. Stephen does exactly that, asking God to forgive the very men stoning him w…
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Acts 6:1-7:22: Serving Tables and Preaching Christ
The early church hits a snag in its efforts to take care of the vulnerable among them: some widows are being overlooked in the daily distribution of …
1 month, 1 week ago
Acts 5:12-42: Counted Worthy to Suffer
The apostles are arrested, freed by an angel during the night, and found the next morning right back in the temple, preaching, which is the last thin…
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Acts 4:32-5:11: The Cost of Pretending
A community so generous that no one claimed anything as their own sounds like a dream until the next scene turns deadly serious. Ananias and Sapphira…
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