When Hope Remains

Passage: Acts 12 Devotion Long ago at the beginning of the church, Peter and the other disciples were being hunted down, imprisoned, and shunned for their faith. Some were martyred. Some saw miracles. And even some of those in power, like Herod, perished by God’s...

God is Still Working

Verse: Acts 11:19-21 19 Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews. 20 Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to...

Take the Nudge

Verse: Acts 10: 1, 3, 5, 9, 11-13 At Caesarea there was man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. 3 One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!” 5...

The Savior Who Knows Our Pain

Verse: Acts 8:32-33 “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.” Devotion...

Our Hearts Before God

Verse: Acts 8:5-25 Simon the Sorcerer Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This...