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1 Corinthians 1 - 2019-10-18READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: INTRODUCTION COMMENTARY TO 1 CORINTHIANS “Ancient Corinth had become a prominent city-state in the southern Greek province known as Achaia several centuries before the time of Christ. Already in this era, it had eclipsed Athens in prominence...October 18, 2019 -
Acts 28 - 2019-10-17READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 28:11-31 (ESV) 11 After three months we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island, a ship of Alexandria, with the twin gods as a figurehead. 12 Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days. 13 And from there...October 17, 2019
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Acts 28 - 2019-10-16READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 28 COMMENTARY vv.1-2: “Malta (Melite), on which the ship was wrecked, is an island about 18 miles long and 8 miles wide. It lies 58 miles south of Sicily and 180 miles north and east of the...October 16, 2019
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Acts 27 - 2019-10-15READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 27 COMMENTARY Background of passage: “The last two chapters of Acts record the fulfillment of Paul’s great ambition to go to Rome (cf. Rom. 1:10-13, 15:22-32). Luke records the event with the crisp, ‘And so we came...October 15, 2019
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Acts 26 - 2019-10-14READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 26:1-32 (ESV) 1 So Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense: 2 “I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am going...October 14, 2019
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Acts 26 - 2019-10-11READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 25:1-26:32 (ESV) 1 Now three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. 2 And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul, and they urged...October 11, 2019
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Acts 26 - 2019-10-10READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 26 COMMENTARY “It was a dramatic moment when the holy and humble apostle of Jesus Christ stood before this representative of the worldly, ambitious, morally corrupt family of...October 10, 2019
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Acts 24 - 2019-10-09READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 24 COMMENTARY Background ”The future of the gospel was at stake, as powerful forces ranged themselves for and against it. On the one hand, the Jewish persecutors were prejudiced...October 9, 2019
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Acts 23 - 2019-10-08READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 23 COMMENTARYvv.1-2: “The implication is that he had nothing on his own mind to condemn him, that he had been faithful in his conduct toward God in every...October 8, 2019
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Acts 22 - 2019-10-07READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 22 COMMENTARYv.2: “Why did the Aramaic language quiet the howling mob? Aramaic was their common language. Hearing Paul speak it caught them by surprise. The unruly crowd immediately...October 7, 2019
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Acts 21 - 2019-10-04READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 21 COMMENTARY vv.3-4: “The traveling group makes contact with the church in Tyre (v.4)-a church probably founded by Christians who ‘had been scattered by the persecution in connection with...October 4, 2019
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Acts 20 - 2019-10-03READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 20 COMMENTARY “Luke now narrates how Paul left Ephesus (20:1), having spent the best part of three years there during his third missionary expedition. And then traveled from place...October 3, 2019
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Acts 19 - 2019-10-02READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 19:18-41 (ESV) 18 Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. 19 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and...October 2, 2019
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Acts 19 - 2019-10-01READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 19 COMMENTARY v.1: Some background on Ephesus: “Though Pergamum was the capital of Asia, Ephesus (in modern Turkey) was the real seat of provincial administration. Being on the western shore...October 1, 2019
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Acts 18 - 2019-9-30READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 18:23-28 (ESV) 23 After spending some time there, he departed and went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. 24 Now a Jew...September 30, 2019
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Acts 18 - 2019-9-27READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 18 COMMENTARYBackground: Corinth was situated on the narrow neck of land that joins central Greece to the southern part of mainland Greece. Due to its strategic location, it...September 27, 2019
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Acts 17 - 2019-9-26READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 17:16-34 (ESV) 16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the...September 26, 2019
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Acts 17 - 2019-09-25READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 17:1-15 (ESV) 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 And Paul went in, as was his...September 25, 2019
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Acts 16 - 2019-09-24READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 16:16-40 (ESV) 16 As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. 17 She...September 24, 2019
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Acts 16 - 2019-09-23READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 16:16-40 (ESV) 16 As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. 17 She...September 23, 2019
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Acts 16 - 2019-09-20READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 16 COMMENTARY Background: This was Paul’s second missionary journey which lasted for about three years. This time, Paul and Silas set out by land, rather than by sea, traveling...September 20, 2019
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Acts 15 - 2019-09-19READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 15:36-41 (ESV) 36 And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and...September 19, 2019
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Acts 15 - 2019-09-18READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 15 COMMENTARY v.1: Who were these “some men” who came down from Judea to Antioch? “Judaizers, some Jewish Christians, took the position that Gentiles must become Jewish first to be...September 18, 2019
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Acts 14 - 2019-09-17READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 14 COMMENTARY vv.11-18: “The crowd’s superstitious and even fanatical behavior is hard to comprehend, but some local background throws light on it. About fifty years previously the Latin poet...September 17, 2019
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Acts 13 - 2019-09-16READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 13:13-52 (ESV)13 Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem, 14 but they went on from Perga and...September 16, 2019
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Acts 13 - 2019-09-13READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 13 COMMENTARY v.1: The list of prophets and teachers ‘symbolized the ethnic and cultural diversity of Antioch,’ a city with a ‘cosmopolitan population.’ Barnabas is mentioned first, possibly because...September 13, 2019
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Acts 12 - 2019-09-12READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 12 COMMENTARY vv.1-17: “To this point in Acts, the apostles of Jerusalem are keenly favored by the ‘people’ of Israel and resisted only by the council – the ‘official’...September 12, 2019
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Acts 11 - 2019-09-11READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 11 COMMENTARY v.1: “A Gentile was anyone who was not a Jew; the Jewish believers are sometimes referred to as the ‘the circumcised believers’ (11:2). Most Jewish believers thought...September 11, 2019
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Acts 10 - 2019-09-10READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 10 COMMENTARY vv.17-19: “Grappling with what we are uncomfortable. In verses 17 and 19 Peter was grappling intensely regarding the meaning of the vision when the Holy Spirit spoke...September 10, 2019
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Acts 9 - 2019-09-09READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 9:32-43 (ESV) 32 Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. 33 There he found a man named Aeneas,...September 9, 2019
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