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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 26:20-21 As wood is to fire
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 26:20-21 20 When the wood runs out the fire stops, and when no one gossips, a quarrel ends. 21 As charcoal is to embers and as wood is to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. These two proverbs tell the same truth in opposite terms. […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 26:18-19 Like a madman
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 26:18-19 18 Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows, 19 is someone who deceives a neighbor and says, “I am only joking!” The poetry of this proverb is obscured a little bit by a language problem. The Hebrew words rimah and ramah sound very much alike, and […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 26:17 Someone who grabs a wild dog by the ears
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 26:17 17 Like someone who grabs a wild dog by the ears is one who meddles in someone else’s quarrel. The Hebrew text only says “dog,” not “wild dog,” but most of the dogs in the Scriptures are not the friendly and loyal pets that sleep at our […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 26:16 Be willing to listen
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 26:16 16 The lazy man is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who can answer with discretion. Here the lazy man comes close to the Proverbs’ description and understanding of the fool, except that while the fool might have some intelligence; the lazy man has none […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:30-31 A time of peace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:30-31 30 When the brothers learned about it, they brought Saul down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus. To better understand this verse, let’s listen to Paul’s own recollection from Galatians: “Later I went to Syria and Cilicia. I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:28-29 Speaking boldly
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:28-29 28 So he lived among them and move about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. 29 He spoke and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they were going to try to kill him. It didn’t take Paul very long (1) to show that he […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:28-29 Speaking boldly
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:28-29 28 So he lived among them and move about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. 29 He spoke and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they were going to try to kill him. It didn’t take Paul very long (1) to show that he […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:26-27 Barnabas and Paul
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:26-27 26 When he arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him. They did not believe that he really was a disciple. 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and described for them how on the road he […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:23-25 Lowering him down in a basket
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:23-25 23 After a considerable time had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him, 24 but Saul learned about their plan. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him, 25 but his followers took him by night and let him down through an opening in […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:21-22 The synagogue
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:21-22 21 All who heard him were amazed and said, “Isn’t this the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? Didn’t he come here to take them prisoner, to the high priests?” 22 But Saul grew more and more powerful. He confused the Jews […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 26:12-15 The lazy man
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 26:12-15 12 Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. This proverb makes the transition in this chapter between sayings about the fool to saying about the lazy man. “To admit no man to […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 9:19b-20 Immediately he preached the Christ
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 9:19b-20 Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. 20 He began to preach about Jesus right away in the synagogues, that he is Christ, the Son of God. The chronology we have of Paul’s life is especially dependent on Galatians 1:12-2:14. Paul tells us there the following details […]
