Tag: Early Church
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🌸Paul on Malta and in Rome🌻
Acts 28:1–31 📖Full NKJV Scripture Reading📚 1 Now when they had escaped, they then found out that the island was called Malta. 2 And the natives showed us unusual kindness; for they kindled a fire and made us all welcome, because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold. 3 But when…
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🌸Paul’s Defense Before Agrippa🌻
Acts 26:1–32 📖 Full NKJV Scripture Reading 📚 1 Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You are permitted to speak for yourself.” So Paul stretched out his hand and answered for himself: 2 “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because today I shall answer for myself before you concerning all the things of which I am…
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🌷Paul’s Testimony to the Crowd 🌻
🕊️ “A Voice from Heaven, a Mission on Earth.” 📖 Acts 21:37–22:21 (NKJV) 37 Then as Paul was about to be led into the barracks, he said to the commander, “May I speak to you?” He replied, “Can you speak Greek? 38 Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a rebellion and led…
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Paul Arrested at the Temple
Acts 21:15–36 🕊️ “Misunderstood but steadfast.” 15 And after those days we packed and went up to Jerusalem. 16 Also some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and brought with them a certain Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to lodge. 17 And when we had come to Jerusalem, the…
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🌸 Paul’s Journey to Jerusalem 🌻
Acts 21:1–14 Paul’s Journey to Jerusalem. 🕊️ “The will of the Lord be done.” 📖 Full NKJV Scripture Reading 📚 1 Now it came to pass, that when we had departed from them and set sail, running a straight course we came to Cos, the following day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. 2 And finding…
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🌸 Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesian Elders 🌻
Acts 20:13–38 🕊️ “Serving the Lord with all humility and tears.” 📖 Full NKJV Scripture Reading 📚 13 Then we went ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, there intending to take Paul on board; for so he had given orders, intending himself to go on foot. 14 And when he met us at Assos, we…
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🌸 The Riot at Ephesus 🌻 “Great Is Diana of the Ephesians”
📖 Acts 19:21–41 (NKJV) 📚 21 When these things were accomplished, Paul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” 22 So he sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, but he…
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🌸 Apollos and the Power of the Spirit 🌻 “Growing in Grace and the Knowledge of the Lord”
📖 Acts 18:24–19:20 (NKJV) 📚 Apollos at Ephesus 24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. 25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though…
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🌸 Some Mocked, Some Believed 🌻 “Faith in the Midst of Skepticism”
📖 Acts 17:32–34 (NKJV) 📚 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.” 33 So Paul departed from among them. 34 However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.…
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🌸 Paul at Athens 🌻 “Reasoning in the Marketplace”
📖 Acts 17:16–21 (NKJV) 📚 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols. 17 Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be…