by Will | Mar 29, 2019 | Scripture Meditations
Acts 6:12-15 (NIV) So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin. They produced false witnesses, who testified, “This fellow never stops speaking against this holy place and...
by Will | Mar 27, 2019 | Scripture Meditations
Acts 6:8-11 (NIV) Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people. Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)–Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well...
by Will | Mar 26, 2019 | Scripture Meditations
Acts 6:5-7 (NIV) This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. They presented these men to the apostles, who...
by Will | Mar 25, 2019 | Scripture Meditations
Acts 6:1-4 (NIV) In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together...
by Will | Mar 22, 2019 | Scripture Meditations
Acts 5:33-40 (NIV) When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death. But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a little while....
by Will | Mar 20, 2019 | Scripture Meditations
Acts 5:27-32 (NIV) Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are...
