Acts 4:1-37 Today we continue with yesterday’s reading and my comments from yesterday are fully applicable today. Back then (46 years ago) I was truly struck when I first read about Peter and John, these …uneducated, common men… (v. 13b) speaking boldly before the Sanhedrin. I knew a lot about Jesus, but I knew little …
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July 3 / Acts 3:1-26
I’m sure some of you have heard me say that Luke is my favorite gospel. But I doubt that many of you have heard me say that Acts is my favorite book in the Bible – not surprising in that Luke also authored Acts! But I can recall my first time reading through the book …
July 2 / Acts 2:1-47
Acts 2:1-47 It was just last year (2020) that we read Acts and the Epistles together as we had the Gospels in 2019, averaging ten or eleven verses per day. So last year we read today’s 47 verses over a five-day span. (See my five days’ worth of comments in the links below.) So with …
July 1 / Acts 1:1-26
Acts 1:1-26 And now we leave the Gospels and move to the book of Acts – referred to occasionally as the “Book of Acts”, the “Acts of the Apostles”, and my favorite, the “Acts of the Holy Spirit”! I looked online and saw two references that listed 56 and 57 occurrences of the Holy Spirit …
July 2021 Readings
Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Jul Acts 1:1-26 26 02-Jul Acts 2:1-47 47 03-Jul Acts 3:1-26 26 04-Jul Acts 4:1-37 37 05-Jul Acts 5:1-42 42 06-Jul Acts 6:1-15 15 07-Jul Acts 7:1-38 38 08-Jul Acts 7:39-60 22 09-Jul Acts 8:1-40 40 10-Jul Acts 9:1-19 19 11-Jul Acts 9:20-43 24 12-Jul Acts 10:1-23 23 13-Jul Acts 10:24-48 25 …
June 30 / John 21:1-25
John 21:1-25 This “love” interaction between Jesus and Peter in verses 15 to 17 is confusing on first read – and on many additional reads – unless you know the Greek behind the word “love”. In the first two questions that Jesus poses to Peter He uses the word “agape” for “love”; in His third …
June 29 / Luke 24:36-53
Luke 24:36-53 Today’s reading is a continuation of the Road to Emmaus, with the two disciples having reported to the eleven about their meeting with Jesus. Luke’s account of Jesus’ appearance in the Upper Room is consistent with John 20:19-23, except that John reports that Thomas had not been present – John then follows up …
June 28 / John 20:11-31
John 20:11-31 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name. (vv. 30-31) For the past …
June 27 / Luke 24:13-35
I hope you’ll read through my comments from 2019 in the links below. This “Road to Emmaus” event is one of my favorite Scripture stories! But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him. (v. 16) I wonder at what Jesus looked like in His resurrected body. We will read tomorrow about Mary Magdalene also not recognizing …
June 26 / Luke 24:1-12, John 20:1-10
Luke 24:1-12 and John 20:1-10 Matthew and Mark have one angel at the tomb, Luke reports two “men…in dazzling apparel”, while John has no mention of angels. Different accounts arising from different people reporting to the gospel writers – except for John who was (supposedly) reporting first-hand… What to make of that? Draw your own …