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Daily Devotion

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11
Sep2024

Naming the thing

by Kathy Matuschka

It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today (Acts 24:21b).

10
Sep2024

By the book

by Kathy Matuschka

Get ready a detachment of two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at nine tonight (Acts 23:23).

09
Sep2024

In the right place at the right time

by Kathy Matuschka

But when the son of Paul’s sister heard of this plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul (Acts 23:16).

08
Sep2024

Lord, help me

by Kathy Matuschka

As soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an evil spirit came and fell at his feet (Mark 7:25).

07
Sep2024

Praise the Lord, my soul

by Neil Bergmann

Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save (Psalm 146:3).

06
Sep2024

Paul speaks to the Sanhedrin

by Neil Bergmann

There was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees stood up and argued vigorously. ‘We find nothing wrong with this man,’ they said. ‘What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?’ (Acts 23:9).