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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:35-38 This is the one
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:35-38 35 “This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ With a brilliant rhetorical device, Stephen uses a series of simple, truthful and clear statements about Moses to compare the great prophet of the Old Testament with the greater Messiah, Jesus […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:30-34 God is holy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:30-34 30 “After forty years had passed, the Angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flames of a burning bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he went closer to look, the voice of the Lord spoke: […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:20-29 Who made you a ruler and a judge over us
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:20-29 Stephen Defends Himself 20 “At that time, Moses was born, and he was pleasing to God. For three months he was cared for in his father’s house. 21 After he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him in and brought him up as her own son. Right from his birth, […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:17-19 In fourteen hundred and ninety-two…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:17-19 17 “As the time approached for God to keep the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt 18 until another king rose up to rule Egypt, one who did not know about Joseph. 19 He took advantage of our people and deceived them, […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 4:17-18 Amen
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 4:17-18 17 Tell Archippus: “See to it that you accomplish the ministry you have received in the Lord.” Archippus is called “our fellow soldier” in Philemon 2. We think that he was the pastor of the Colossian church. Why would Paul ask the Colossian Christians to pass along a message […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:11-16 Seventy-five in all
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:11-16 11 “Then a famine came all through Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our fathers could not find food. 12 It was when Jacob heard that there was bread in Egypt that he sent our fathers down the first time. 13 On their second visit, Joseph made himself […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:8-10 fling wide open the double-doors of our hearts
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:8-10 8 He also gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And so, when Abraham became the father of Isaac, he circumcised him eight days after his birth. Stephen, a Hellenistic Jew who knew his Greek precisely and intimately as well as an English professor knows his English grammar, uses the […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:4-7 Strangers in the land
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:4-7 4 “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God sent him to this land where you are now living, 5 but he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give it […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 7:1-3 The God of glory appeared to Abraham
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 7:1-3 Stephen’s Apology 7 Then the high priest said to Stephen, “Are these things true?” 2 He said, “Brothers and fathers, hear me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran. 3 ‘Leave your land and your […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 6:15 the face of an angel
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 6:15 15 All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen. They saw that his face was like the face of an angel. What should we think of Stephen’s face, “like the face of an angel”? We should apply the rest of Scripture to this passage to inform […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 4:15-16 Read the letter
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 4:15-16 15 Greet the brothers at Laodicea, and Nympha and the church in her house. Along with verse 13 we notice that Laodicea was not far from Colosse and on the same side of a river, with Hierapolis a little to the north. The church that met in the house […]
God’s Word for You – Acts 6:11-14 Before the Sanhedrin
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU ACTS 6:11-14 11 Then secretly they put some men up to say, “We have heard him say blasphemous things against Moses and against God,” 12 and so they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin. 13 They also set […]
