Closer Day By Day

Bible Passage:  Acts 17-18 Paul continues his 2nd missionary journey with Silas and joined by Timothy. He went from place to place to preach, entering into the synagogues on Sabbath days as his custom was, to persuade the Jews that their Messiah had already come. As usual, he was persecuted by envious Jews (of Thessalonica) [...]

Picture of Milky Way at Sagittarius region that I took at Hawaii (shows the marvelous creation of God and that we, man should humble ourselves) Bible Passage:  Acts 15 – 16 Time crunch.. it is time to deliver the blog! We come to Acts Chapter 15 and 16. There are many stories in these chapters [...]

Bible Passage:  Acts 13-14 Today we will read the beginning of the first missionary journey of Paul. He was selected together with Barnabas specially by the Holy Spirit to go out to do this work, and along with them was also John Mark. 3 things that I picked up from reading these chapters that I [...]

An Aqueduct found at Caesarea Caesarea is one of the most interesting places to be in Israel. There are so many Roman and Crusader building remains there. One of that is the aqueduct which is a long ‘pipe’ to transport water during the Roman era. Probably this aqueduct was around during the time of the [...]

Bible Passage:  Acts 9-10 Acts chapter 9 and chapter 10 both contains 2 very great stories in Christian history. In both stories, the hand of God acted to convert 2 persons, and these 2 persons later on brought great blessings upon the people around them. In Chapter 9 it records how God shone the light [...]

Bible Passage:  Acts 7 and 8 In Chapter 7, Stephan delivered a long sermon to the Sanhedrin. In this story, the audience differed from the group that received Peter’s testimony. These people in the Sanhedrin were made up of the rulers, elders and teachers of the law; people who had high positions in the jewish [...]

Bible Passage:  Acts 5 to 6 In the past few chapters we see the mighty working power of the Holy Spirit.  We see the Holy Spirit working mightily in the apostles and transforming them into vessels of courage and of power in the testimony of Christ.  We see thousands of people being moved into repentance, [...]

Today we read about Peter saying yet another great sermon and moved 5000 Jews to convert to Christians! (on top of the 3000 in chapter 2!) Bible Passage:  Acts 3-4 Peter and John were going to the temple and they saw this lame man at the Beautiful gate. There he proclaimed a famous saying… “Silver [...]

Desert. On the way to Jerusalem from Dead Sea Looking down from Mount of Olives. Present time there are may Jewish tombs As I browsed through some photos I took from Mount of Olives about close to 2 years back, it brings me to the time where Christianity began. From this location, I could imagine [...]