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Day 12 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 27–28. Some were convinced by what he said, but others would not believe. They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: "The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:...
Day 11 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 24–26. Paul replied, "Short time or long—I pray to God, that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.” Acts 26:29 Dear God, Thank you for giving us Paul as an example of hope. Thank you for using him...
Day 10 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 21–23. The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, "Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.” Acts 23:11 Dear God, Thank you for the day ahead. Thank you for the gift of hard work. Help us all to...
Day 9 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 19–20. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind...
Day 8 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 17–18. From one man he made all nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; Acts 17:26 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision. "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you,...
Day 7 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 15–16. About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once the prison doors flew open and...
Day 6 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 13–14. The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles. Acts 14:4 In the past he let all nations go their own way. Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven...
Day 5 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 10–12. “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.” Acts 10:34–35 Dear God, Help us to do what is right today. Help our nation to move in the direction of peace...
Day 4 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 8–9. "There he found a man named Aeneas who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years. ‘Aeneas,’ Peter said to him, ‘Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and roll up your mat.’ Immediately, Aeneas got up.” Acts 9:33–34 Dear God, Thank you, Jesus, for...
Day 3 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 6–7. When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. Moses thought that his own people would realize...
Day 2 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 4–5. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those...
Day 1 – A Journey through Acts
Read Acts 1–3. You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him as you all can see. ...
Easter Monday
The Great Commission Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me....
Easter Sunday
Jesus Has Risen On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they...
There is hope in the waiting…..
Holy Saturday
Praise to God for a Living Hope Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or...
It is finished
Good Friday
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united...
Holy Thursday
When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.” After taking the...
Wednesday of Holy Week
But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 1 Corinthians...
Day 40 – A Lenten Journey through John
Read John 21 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.” So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, “Come and have...
Day 39 – A Lenten Journey through John
Read John 20:11-31 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward...
Day 38 – A Lenten Journey through John
Read John 20:1-10 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They...
Day 37 – A Lenten Journey through John
Read John 19:28-42 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it...
Day 36 – A Lenten Journey through John
Read John 19:1-27 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle. Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross....
Day 35 – A Lenten Journey through John
Read John 18:28-40 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king....
Day 34 – A Lenten Journey through John
Day 34 - A Lenten Journey through John Read John 18:1-27 Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing there warming himself. So they asked him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” He denied it, saying, “I am not.” One of the high priest’s servants, a relative...
Day 33 – A Lenten Journey through John
Read John 17:20-26 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent...
Day 32 – A Lenten Journey through John
Read John 17:1-13 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now...
Day 31 – A Lenten Journey through John
Read John 16:16-33 “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me. “I have told you these things, so that in me...