Acts 1:4,8; 2:4; 8:12-17; 10:44-46; 11:14-16; 15:7-9
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Richard Venable wrote a new blog post: Sky 3 years, 2 months ago · View
The Apostles watched as Jesus ascended into the sky and disappeared behind a cloud. How did they feel watching him leave? I imagine they felt an overwhelming confidence that Jesus really was the Messiah, but they were also anxious for him to begin “restoring the kingdom to Israel” (verse 6). His response to their anxiety was [...] -
johncatmur wrote a new blog post: Doing good 3 years, 2 months ago · View
I was just catching up today on Friday’s reading. Its a great passage, showing God’s power and the wonderful gift of the Spirit coming on all who believed the message about Jesus and the forgiveness of sins, even to the gentiles. But following on from my message last night at the meeting there were a [...]
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Richard Venable wrote a new blog post: Separation in Pride, Unity in Christ 3 years, 6 months ago · View
At Babel, men were trying to be united under their own strength, working together to achieve their own goals by their own power. What they were doing almost sounds good: they were working together in unity. But it was their purpose that was evil: glorifying themselves rather than God. And so God introduced a language [...]