WITNESSING
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Daily Readings: Acts 2 and Psalm 70 1When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest
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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: Mark 13 and Psalm 66 Now that our remembrance of the Ascension is behind us, we step back into the Gospel of Mark. At this point in the Gospel, Jesus is in Jerusalem, and it’s the final week of His ministry. Betrayal, suffering, crucifixion and death await, and He knows it. Yet somehow,
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Daily Readings: Luke 24 and Psalm 64 51 While He was blessing them, He left them and was taken up into heaven. 52 Then they worshipped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. 53 And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God. It’s Ascension Day, and we join the global church in celebrating that Jesus departed from the
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Daily Readings: John 18 and Psalm 34 In John 18, Jesus was arrested. But it soon becomes evident that while He placed Himself under the physical control of the authorities, He was never controlled by them spiritually. John records His arrest in such a way as to report three times that Jesus confessed: “I am
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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 Reading: Matthew 21 and Psalm 21 Having preached on corporate prayer yesterday, it’s very tempting to focus only on Jesus’ declaration in v.13 “My house will be called a house of prayer,” (quoting Isaiah 56:7). But, despite how zealously we see Jesus longing for His people to be a people of prayer, this chapter
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Daily Readings: Matthew 10 and Psalm 10 There is so much in Matthew 10 to capture our imagination and our attention, but what I felt jumping off the pages at me today was the promise of v.19-20. Jesus was very clear that despite the powerful anointing on their ministries, the apostles were bound to experience
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