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On the Sabbath we went a little way outside the city to a riverbank, where we thought people would be meeting for prayer, and we sat down to speak with …

I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you. …

Priscilla and Aquila were tentmakers who had been among the Jews expelled from Rome by the Roman Emperor Claudius in the year 49. They ended up in Corinth, where Paul, the apostle, lived with them for approximately 18 …

A Jew named Apollos, an eloquent speaker who knew the Scriptures well, had arrived in Ephesus from Alexandria in Egypt.  He had been taught the way of the Lord, and he …

Then they put their hands over their ears and began shouting. They rushed at him and dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Stephen’s accusers took …

One day as Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon, also called Peter, and Andrew—throwing a net into the water, for they …

 Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where he was tempted by the devil for forty …

What kind of man did you go into the wilderness to see? Was he a weak reed, swayed by every breath of wind? Or were you expecting a man dressed …

“If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows …

Hanani came to visit me with some other men who had just arrived from Judah. I asked about the Jews who had returned there from captivity and about how things …

Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us? I said, ‘Here I am. Send me.’ Isaiah 6:8. The Bible is filled with examples …

There was once a man who…. was blameless–a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil, Job 1:1. Job was a man who lived in a …

“I set out to learn everything from wisdom to madness and folly. But I learned firsthand that pursuing all this is like chasing the wind.” Ecclesiastes 1:17, NLT. Ecclesiastes seems …

He returned from following him, took the yoke of oxen, and slaughtered them; using the equipment from the oxen, he boiled their flesh, and gave it to the people, and …

Hannah made this vow: “O LORD of hosts, if only you will… give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a Nazirite until …

So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation; he laid his hands on him and …