Archives: Devos

Who's Your Paul?

When Paul went on his first missionary journey in AD 47, there were no churches in the areas that he visited. Ten years later, there were many. So he set out on his second missionary journey, to go back to all of those areas and see how the believers were doing.He talked to his colleague […]

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Unmerited and Inexhaustible

In Acts 13, the apostle Paul got an interesting reaction to his sermon at Antioch. “When the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath” (v. 42). The people were saying, “Please, we want to hear that message again.” That’s like music to […]

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The Secret Weapon

There is a theme throughout the Bible: we serve a sovereign God. At the same time, we may struggle as we wonder, In the sovereign plan and purpose of God, what role does prayer play? If God is sovereign and does whatever He wants, does it matter if I pray or not?In the beginning of […]

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Two Conversions

Isn’t it great that the Lord has a plan? One of the things we see in Acts 10 is the providence of God through the salvation of an unlikely person—a Roman centurion named Cornelius.For many years, God had been preparing Cornelius for a meeting with Peter the apostle. And I love how the Lord orchestrated […]

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Two Questions for God

The conversion of Saul of Tarsus was one of the greatest events of human history. His salvation meant so much for the growth of the early church that he became the dominant figure in the second portion of the book of Acts. Before that event, he was the chief opponent of Christianity. Afterward, he became […]

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