“After spending some time in Antioch, Paul set out from there and traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.” (Acts 18:23) We all need a little rest and relaxation once in awhile. R&R is built right into how the military deals with its personnel. No one […]
06/06/23 Daily Devotion – The constant need to walk by faith and not by sight!
“One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: ‘Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.’ So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the […]
06/05/23 Daily Devotion – Sometimes you have to leave the resistance!
“But when the Jews opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, ‘Your blood be on your own heads! I am clear of my responsibility. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.’” (Acts 18:6) Paul was preaching to his fellow Jews and facing tremendous resistance. […]
06/04/23 Daily Devotion – We make it too complicated sometimes!
“A few men became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.” (Acts 17:34 NIV84) The reason I stop at this verse is because I simply want to remind us all, even myself, that whether someone believes or doesn’t […]
06/03/23 Daily Devotion – The stumbling block the resurrection causes!
“‘For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.’ When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, ‘We want to hear […]
06/02/23 Daily Devotion – Answering our human dilemma!
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.” Acts 17:24–25 (NIV84) Many […]
06/01/2023 Daily devotion – ‘In Him we live and move and have our being.’
“From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far […]
05/30/23 Daily Devotion – They went back to jail?
“When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: ‘Release those men.’ The jailer told Paul, ‘The magistrates have ordered that you and Silas be released. Now you can leave. Go in peace.’” Acts 16:35&36 (NIV84) Paul and Silas had experienced an Earth-quaking, chains-falling, prison-doors-opening miracle of God, and then […]
05/29/23 Daily Devotion – Is Christianity Reasonable?
“While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.” Acts 17:16–17 (NIV84) The Spirit […]
05/28/23 Daily Devotion – Are we a thinking people5
“Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, ‘May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.’ (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived […]
