16 ‘now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the gentiles. I am sending you to them.  [acts 26:16-17]   a...

“in this connection i journeyed to damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. at midday, o king, i saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me. and when we had all fallen to the...

 i thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, though formerly i was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. but i received mercy because i had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the...

and now i stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers, to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they [earnestly worship night and day]. and for this hope i am accused by jews, o king! why is it thought incredible by any of you...

and now i stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers, to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. and for this hope i am accused by jews, o king! why is it thought incredible by any of you...

“my manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in jerusalem, is known by all the jews. they have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion i have lived as a...

so agrippa said to paul, “you have permission to speak for yourself.” then paul stretched out his hand and made his defense: “i consider myself fortunate that it is before you, king agrippa, i am going to make my defense today against all the accusations of the jews,...

let's enter the presence of God together... believing his WORD is his VOICE... and because of Christ - he is with us through the Spirit - speaking to us through his word.   pray. asking the Lord to speak through his word. then read. as you read - give him time,...

being at a loss how to investigate these questions, i asked whether he wanted to go to jerusalem and be tried there regarding them. but when paul had appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of the emperor, i ordered him to be held until i could send him to...

rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom paul asserted to be alive. [acts 25:19]   are you living like Jesus is alive?   easter is behind us, but here we are again,...