by Will | Apr 1, 2019 | Scripture Meditations
Acts 7:5-8 (NIV) But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child. God spoke to him in this way: ‘Your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be...
by Will | Mar 31, 2019 | Scripture Meditations
Acts 7:1-5a (NIV) Then the high priest asked him, “Are these charges true?” To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran....
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...
