COURAGE
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Daily Readings: Acts 9 and Psalm 77 The main focus of Acts 9 is clearly Saul’s radical conversion from being a persecutor of Christians to being an outspoken preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ who “baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah” . However, the man who caught
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Daily Readings: Acts 7 and Psalm 75 Jesus warned His disciples in John 16:2-3, “The time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.” Stephen was the first disciple for whom this came to
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Daily Readings: Acts 4 and Psalm 72 We saw yesterday how courageous Peter became once filled with the Holy Spirit, and how willing he was to risk everything for Jesus. That theme continues today. Hauled before the same religious authorities who had so recently put Jesus to death, Peter and John refused to be silenced.
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Our daily reading plan now enters the Book of Acts in earnest and we’ll spend a few weeks reading and reflecting on the Spirit-empowered mission of the early Church. Daily Readings: Acts 3 and Psalm 71 I wonder which action demanded more courage from Peter: In Jesus’ name commanding a man who had been lame
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Daily Readings: Mark 15 and Psalm 68 Yesterday we noted how Jesus stood boldly before the High Priest and the Sanhedrin and made “the good confession” (1 Timothy 6:13) of the truth about His identity as the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One, despite knowing that it would give them the excuse they were
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Daily Readings: Mark 14 and Psalm 67 61 But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer. Again the high priest asked him, ‘Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?’ 62 ‘I am,’ said Jesus. ‘And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds
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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 10 and Psalm 61 Jesus had already told His disciples twice that He was going to be put to death, only to rise again (Mark 8:31 and 9:31). Now in 10:33-34 he repeats Himself yet again: 33 ‘We are going up to Jerusalem,’ he said, ‘and the Son of Man will be delivered over to
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Daily Readings: John 16 and Psalm 49 13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify Me because it is from Me
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Daily Readings: John 11 and Psalm 46 In John 11 we witness Jesus’ greatest miracle – the raising of Lazarus from the dead after four days in the tomb – as well as Jesus’ own profound statement, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they
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