Category: Acts
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Spiritual Directions (Acts 2:42-47)
Acts 2 gives us spiritual directions for the church: upward in worship, inward in community, outward in generosity, and forward with the gospel. The Spirit-empowered church is not organized around comfort and consumption, but around devotion to God, one another, the hurting, and the mission of Jesus Christ.
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Day 347: Convicted, Curious, but Not Convinced (Acts 24-26)
Felix was convicted. Festus was curious. Agrippa was close. None of them crossed the line into faith. Acts 24–26 invites us to consider how we respond when the gospel is clearly heard but the verdict is delayed.
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Day 346: Sanctified Shrewdness (Acts 20-23)
Acts 20–23 offers a surprising portrait of the apostle Paul—one that shows wisdom, discernment, and even shrewdness pressed into kingdom service. Rather than erasing Paul’s past, the Holy Spirit redeems every part of his story for the sake of the gospel.
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Day 330: What to Make of Mars Hill? (Acts 17:18-34)
Paul’s sermon on Mars Hill is often celebrated as a master class in cultural engagement. Yet the results in Athens were modest, and Paul’s own later reflections suggest he learned something there about the limits of brilliance and the surpassing power of Christ crucified. Acts 17 reminds us that contextualization matters—but only Jesus saves.
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Day 327: A Gentile, a Slave, and a Woman Walk into a Church… (Acts 16)
Paul grew up praying a Jewish blessing thanking God he’s not a Gentile, slave, or woman—then the Spirit sends him to Philippi to meet exactly those three. God has a sense of humor.
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Day 325: Calling Out the Called (Acts 13:2)
Hundreds of Alabama churches are searching for pastors, and the average age of ministers keeps rising. Acts 13 reminds us that the Holy Spirit is the ultimate Caller—but the church must become the kind of community where calling can be heard, nurtured, supplied, and sent.