Saturday, January 18, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Romans 1-2 Secondary Reading: Psalms 8 Key Verse Romans 1:31 — “Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:” Devotional Thought Paul had never been to Rome when he wrote this letter, yet he opens it like a man writing to family. He calls himself “a servant … Read more
Friday, January 17, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 27-28 Key Verse Acts 27:38 — “And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.” Devotional Thought The voyage to Rome begins with a prisoner’s escort and a favorable wind, but it ends with a shipwreck and … Read more
Thursday, January 16, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 26 Key Verse Acts 26:17 — “Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,” Devotional Thought The scene in Acts 26 is a courtroom, but it reads more like a sanctuary. Paul stands in chains before King Agrippa, the … Read more
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 24-25 Secondary Reading: Psalms 7 Key Verse Acts 25:1 — “Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.” Devotional Thought Paul stands in the governor’s hall at Caesarea, and the machinery of empire grinds around him. Tertullus, … Read more
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 23 Key Verse Acts 23:18 — “So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say unto thee.” Devotional Thought Paul … Read more
Monday, January 13, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 21-22 Secondary Reading: Psalms 6 Key Verse Acts 21:36 — “For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.” Devotional Thought Paul is a man on the move, and Acts 21-22 traces his steps with the precision of a travel diary—Coos, Rhodes, Patara, … Read more
Sunday, January 12, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 19-20 Key Verse Acts 19:40 — “For we are in danger to be called in question for this day’s uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.” Devotional Thought Paul comes to Ephesus and finds twelve disciples whose faith is … Read more
Saturday, January 11, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 18 Key Verse Acts 18:15 — “But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.” Devotional Thought Paul arrives in Corinth alone, having left Athens behind, and finds … Read more
Friday, January 10, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 16-17 Secondary Reading: Psalms 5 Key Verse Acts 16:38 — “And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.” Devotional Thought Paul and Silas knew what it was to be redirected. When the Holy Ghost forbade … Read more
Thursday, January 9, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 14-15 Key Verse Acts 15:7 — “And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word … Read more
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 13 Secondary Reading: Psalms 4 Key Verse Acts 13:27 — “For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.” Devotional Thought … Read more
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Acts 11-12 Key Verse Acts 11:28 — “And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.” Devotional Thought The early church is … Read more