Closer Day By Day

Bible Passage:  Acts 25 After reading about the exciting events of Paul’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd Missionary journeys, the last chapter and next few chapters seem to be pretty uneventful. We last read that Felix left Paul in prison for 2 years.  Now, Festus has taken over but nothing much seems to have changed.  The [...]

Bible Passage: Acts 24 For the past few days we read of Paul’s arrest at Jerusalem, the mad resentment the mob had against him and how the jews plotted to kill him – everyone anticipated his downfall. As readers we can only imagine the tension Paul had to go through each day. Acts 24 records [...]

Bible Passage: Acts 23 Yesterday, aquillofGod mentioned that Acts 22 marked the ‘beginning of the end’. Today’s chapter picks up where we left off with the gathering of the Jewish council members. They begin their pretentious showiness of their humanly attained status. Self-Check It’s astounding to see how the Jewish leaders were blinded by their [...]

Today’s chapter can be viewed as a sort of ‘beginning of the end’. It records the first of five defenses that Paul gave before he embarked on his final journey to Rome. Let’s read it to see what he says. Bible Passage:  Acts 22 Because the chapter is almost purely the words of Paul yet [...]

Reading the missionary journeys of Paul gives me a very warm feeling, a feeling that is close to my heart. This is because I do see the similarity between how the apostles went from places to places to preach and to encourage the believers and how our Church works today. Even though we don’t have [...]

Bible Passage:  Acts 20 In the youth service yesterday, there were two short sermons being shared by two brothers. Each sermon were focused around two important characteristics that we Christians should possess. Courage and love. And coincidentally, I feel that both attributes can be highlighted in today’s chapter. Courage “And see, now I go bound [...]

Last night we had a very enjoyable evening of food, fellowship and fun at the Foreign Members Gathering.  It was indeed a great way outside of service times to get to know each other better and some never known facts were revealed about some of us! This gathering also served as a good backdrop for [...]

Bible Passage:  Acts 19 “This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.”  ~ Acts 19:17 This refers to the incident where the evil spirit jumped out of a possessed man onto the seven sons of Sceva, [...]

Bible Passage:  Acts 18 “Janice said…” “Janice did it too!” “Janice was with me in the bus this morning when…” “I asked Janice about it, and she felt that it would be better if…” We tend to talk about the people we like, our interests, and things dear to us. As I read through this [...]

Bible Passage:  Acts 17 “As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead.” (Acts 17:2-3) Whenever I read Acts, it daunts on me the courage of the believers and [...]