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Whole Bible in 2 Years – Intro
Our church is reading through the Bible together over the next 2 years. I’m going to journal my thoughts (for your reading enjoyment). If you’d like a schedule to read along you can download it for free here: This is not my first trip through the Bible. Far from it. But it is the first…
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Acts 12
Herod’s Persecution & Death Right out of the gate in this chapter we have our first of the 12 Apostles to die. James, the brother of John, half of the “sons of thunder” duo is beheaded by King Herod. He also arrests Peter who gets a supernatural jailbreak and the world’s first motion-activated gate. There…
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Acts 10–11
Peter and the Gentiles 😐 Are you sure you want that to be your title? It sounds like a 1980s Christian Rock band. 🎸 It’s fine. Let’s meet Cornelius. He lives in Caesarea Maritima. Also called Caesarea by the Sea to distinguish it from Caesarea Phiippi in the north at the foot of Mount Hermon.…
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Acts 9
THE CONVERSION OF SAUL We come to the final, (the 12th), post-resurrection appearance of Jesus: to Saul on the road to Damascus. He tells this story in detail in Acts 22:5-16, 26:10-18, and even a bit in Galatians 1:11-24. Here’s what we can gather from ALL the texts in the NTT about this event: Saul…
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Acts 8
PHILIP The first 3 verses of Acts 8 should probably have been the ending of chapter 7. Saul watched and approved of Stephen’s stoning. And he genuinely believed he was on God’s side; defending Torah from these upstart Christians. He began going door to door like the Gestapo; forcing his way in, arresting Christians. This…
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Acts 6-7
STEPHEN The Church’s First “Deacons” The Church is growing rapidly. “And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.”Acts 6:7 ESV It’s very likely that the “priests” mentioned here are not the chief priests…
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Acts 3-5
Peter & John In the last chapter you may have noticed the change in Peter. It’s just as illegal as ever to be claiming that Jesus is the Messiah and yet here Peter is, boldly announcing Jesus is Messiah that to a crowd of thousands. The man who followed Jesus at a distance and denied…
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Acts 1-2
WELCOME to the ACTS OF THE APOSTLES We typically call this book “Acts” for short, but nowhere in the text does it call itself, “The Acts of the Apostles.” It’s a follow-up “Treatise” by Luke the Physician to a man named Theophilus. The first “Treatise” was the work we call The Gospel According to Luke,…
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John 20-21
Post Resurrection Appearances Jesus appeared 5 separate times on Resurrection Sunday. And then for the rest of the week – which was the Feast of Unleavened Bread, no one saw Him. 🤔 Where do you suppose He was? ☝️🤓 Maybe He was there but invisible! Oh hi! Welcome back guys. Haven’t seen you for a…
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Luke 24
RESURRECTION – Sunday Afternoon AN OVERLOOKED APPEARANCE You might think that the next event on Resurrection Sunday was Jesus appearing to the 2 disciples on the road to Emmaus. But it isn’t. When those 2 disciples get back to Jerusalem to tell “the eleven” that they saw Jesus, “the eleven” had news for them. Peter…
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Matthew 28 & Mark 16
RESURRECTION – Sunday Morning Just like the details of the crucifixion and burial, we need all four gospels to piece together the full account of what happened on Sunday morning. If you will indulge me, I think I’ll drop the verses in here as near to a combined and chronological narrative as I’m able to…
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John 19
PASSION WEEK – Friday and Saturday THE BURIAL As soon as it was clear Jesus was dead, Joseph of Arimathaea went to Pilate to seek permission to take the body of Jesus off the cross. We know from the text a few things about Joseph. He was from Arimathaea which was a city in Judea…
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Luke 23
My apologies for basically ditching the reading plan. I really want to think my way through these events as thoroughly and chronologically as possible. Here’s my plan for this week: Monday – Luke 23, The Crucifixion Tuesday – John 19, The Burial Wednesday – Mt 28, Mk 16, Resurrection AM Thursday – Luke 24, Resurrection…
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