ANCIENT PATHS
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Daily Readings: Acts 13 and Psalm 81 So much happened in Acts 13, but it all happened from the home-base of this wonderful fledgling Church in Antioch. Here, for the very first time in history, followers of the Jesus-Way were called “Christians” (11:26). And here, by an amazing work of God’s grace, people from different
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Daily Readings: Acts 12 and Psalm 80 “Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.” (v5) There’s that wonderful word, “but”, again. Herod was trying to win some popularity with the Jewish religious authorities. Seeing how enthused they were when he executed the apostle James, he seized Peter,
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Daily Readings: Acts 6 and Psalm 74 The lesson of Acts 6 is very clear. When every disciple of Jesus responds faithfully to the call of the Lord and serves the Kingdom’s cause in the power of the Holy Spirit with his or her particular gifts and abilities, the Lord uses that to extend His
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Daily Readings: Acts 1 and Psalm 65 The disciples returned to Jerusalem in obedience to Jesus’ command, to await their infilling with the Holy Spirit there. They “joined together constantly in prayer”, eagerly anticipating His arrival and, I suspect, praying fervently for His help in the great mission Jesus had left them to complete. During
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Daily Readings: Mark 4 and Psalm 55 Mark 4 records four of Jesus’ parables about the Kingdom of God, each teaching us in a different way about the power of God’s Word to bring about the growth of the Kingdom. And then the chapter ends with Jesus miraculously calming a storm with the power of
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Believe it or not, we have completed the Gospel of John; and we now turn our attention to the two shortest letters written by the same apostle John; namely, 2 John (today) and 3 John (on Monday). Daily Readings: 2 John 1 and Psalm 50 Because John wrote this letter at a time of intense
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Daily Readings: Matthew 28 and Psalm 28 And then, at dawn on the Sunday after His horrifying death, the Lord Jesus was raised from the dead by the power of God. The moment of the resurrection is never described in the Gospels, because it happened ‘behind closed doors’ in the sealed tomb. There were no
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Daily Readings: Matthew 25 and Psalm 25 The three parables in Matthew 25 continue the theme of our calling to be faithful to the tasks to which Jesus has called us. Our Lord Jesus calls us to remain faithful at all times. He calls us to be mindful that He is right at hand and
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Daily Readings: Matthew 16 and Psalm 16 In Matthew 13, Jesus told a parable explaining how the Kingdom of God influences and transforms. Just as a tiny measure of yeast in a batch of dough gradually but fundamentally transforms the dough from the inside, the Kingdom of God brings fundamental change to people and communities
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Daily Readings: Matthew 14 and Psalm 14 As opposition to Jesus mounted among the religious and political rulers, Jesus received the tragic news of His cousin John’s death at the hands of King Herod. Immediately, struck by the harsh reality of the dangerous path He was on, and needing to process what this meant for
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