Bible Study - Acts 21
Paul replied, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city. I beg you, permit me to speak to the people.”
Acts 21:39 ESV
Bible Study - Acts 20
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 20:24 ESV
Bible Study - Acts 19
He answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?””
Acts 19:15 NIV
What I Learned the Day the Title Changed
But the one I struggle with most on expectations isn't a person. It's God.
What do you do when the God you've known since you were eleven years old — the God you surrendered your life to, the God with no limits on His ability — doesn't do what you expected Him to do?
Bible Study - Acts 18
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
Acts 18:26 ESV
Bible Study - Acts 17
For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
Acts 17:23 ESV
I Don’t Want to Lose what I Got
"Green you grow, ripe you rot. If you just sit there and say 'I made it,' well — you're either moving forward or you're moving backwards. You're never in the same place. Growth doesn't come naturally just because it's in your nature. You have to practice it. You have to hone it.”
Bible Study - Acts 16
And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.
Acts 16:6–7 ESV
Bible Study - Acts 15
But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses." The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.
Acts 15:5–6 ESV
Bible Study - Acts 14
But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. 20 But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.
Acts 14:19–20 ESV
Are You Leading from Clarity or Pressure?
Pressure compounds. It layers. It sits on you personally, physically, and professionally, every single day.
Bible Study - Acts 13
And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, "I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will."
Acts 13:22 (ESV)
Bible Study - Acts 12
But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Tell these things to James and to the brothers." Then he departed and went to another place.
Acts 12:17 ESV
Bible Study - Acts 11
So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 11:25–26 ESV
God’s Test
God tests us. We ask the question all day long: "Why does a loving God allow bad things to happen?"
Bible Study - Acts 9
But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. 16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name." 17 So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit
Acts 9:15–17 ESV
Bible Study - Acts 8
And the Spirit said to Philip, "Go over and join this chariot." So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Acts 8:29–30 ESV
Bible Study - Acts 7
You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
Acts 7:51 ESV