How many times can someone be filled with the Holy Spirit? Today’s text gives us an answer.
Todays Scripture: Acts 13:9-12
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How did a crippled man receive faith to be miraculously healed from listening to Paul preach the gospel?
Todays Scripture: Acts 14:6-10
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No one can argue that it was God’s will for the crippled man in Lystra to be healed or that he was healed by his faith. What are the implications for us?
Todays Scripture: Acts 14:8-10
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David explains why he is certain that Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians prior to the Jerusalem Counsel recorded in Acts 15, as he points out the undeniable biblical and historical context.
Todays Scripture: Acts 15:5-11
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When we consider what the debate in Jerusalem was not about, it helps us to understand what it was about, and it also helps us to realize how modern commentators often distort the true issue.
Todays Scripture: Acts 15:5-11
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Not being able to reach a consensus in Antioch concerning Gentile circumcision, a contingency that included Paul traveled to Jerusalem to settle the issue.
Todays Scripture: Acts 15:1-5
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It is difficult to fathom how the church’s first doctrinal controversy could revolve around the topic of the genitals of Gentiles, but it did!
Todays Scripture: Acts 15:1
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Why didn’t the elders who were appointed to oversee churches in Paul’s day need to spend years studying in seminary or Bible schools in order to be equipped for their tasks?
Todays Scripture: Acts 14:22-15:1
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Three times in today’s reading we find proof positive that the word “disciple” does not describe an elite class of more-devoted believers.
Todays Scripture: Acts 14:20-22
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The crowds in Lystra wanted to worship Paul and then murder him. Paul’s character shines through it all.
Todays Scripture: Acts 14:19-22
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