Daily Devotion

ACTS 26:1-11 The final hearing before Agrippa was not an official trial since its purpose was to gain additional information for the benefit of Festus. King Agrippa turned to Paul and told him he was permitted to speak for himself. Paul did not...

ACTS 25:1-12 Festus was a different type from Felix; we know very little about him but what we do know proves that he was a just and upright man. He died after only two years in office, but he died with an untainted name. The Jew tried to take...

ACTS 23:25-35 The seat of the Roman government was not in Jerusalem but in Caesarea. The praetorium is the residence of a governor. The praetorium Caesarea was a palace that had been built by Herod the Great. Lysia wrote his letter absolutely fair...

ACTS 23: 1-10 There was a certain audacious recklessness about Paul's conduct before the Sanhedrin; he acted like a man who knew that he was creating a challenge. To say Brethren was to put himself on an equal footing with the court, for the normal...

ACTS 22:11-21 Once again, Paul is stressing, to begin with, his identity with his audience. When he reached Damascus, the man who instructed him was Ananias, a devotee of the Law whom the Jews knew to be a good man. Paul is stressing the fact that...

MATTHEW 1:18-25 (continued) This passage tells us how Jesus was born by the action of the Holy Spirit. It is called the VIRGIN BIRTH. At the moment, we are concerned only to find out what this means for us. If we come to this passage with fresh...