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Ananias restoring the sight of Saint Paul Wiki Commons Images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 | Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at any time!  In the name of God who surrounds us; the God who Walks with us; the God who blows through us.  Amen Today’s Reading - 10/27/2019     Day 300 Acts 8:1 - 9:43 10/28/2019     Day 301 Acts 10:1 - 12:25 Reflection | Today - Saul persecutes the Church Philip preaches in Samaria Philip is taken to an Ethiopian and baptizes him The conversion of Saul/Paul Ananias encounter with Jesus in a vision Saul preaches in Damascus, escapes the Jews,   meets with the disciples in Jerusalem; Peter heals, goes to Lydda/Joppa, meets with   Cornelius and his vision of food Gentiles hear the good news and receive the   Holy Spirit, Peter reports to the Church in   Jerusalem Persecution continues - John is killed and Peter   imprisoned but is set free Herod is struck down not ...

Read |  Day 315 | Wednesday | November 11 | Acts 10: 1-8, 9-33, 34-43, 44-48  Acts 11: 1-18, 19-30  Acts 12: 1-5  Date: about 41 a.d. In this painting by  Gerbrand van den Eeckhout  an angel  appears to the Roman centurion Cornelius.  The angel tells him to seek out St. Peter.  The Walters Art Museum. Reading | An angel appears before a devout centurion named Cornelius to send for Peter; Peter sees vision that all created by God is clean and humanity should not say that it is; Peter - God shows no favoritism but accepts everyone from every nation who has faith; Gentiles receive the Holy Spirit; Peter reports back to the church in Jerusalem the great things happening; Church sends Barnabas to Antioch and picks up Paul in Tarsus; King Herod sends out a persecution of the Church; he kills James, the brother of John killed and arrested Peter and placed him in prison. Next |  Day 316 |Thursday | November 12 | Acts 12: 6-19a, 19b-24, 25–...

Read |  Day 271 | Monday | September 28 | John 3: 1-22, 23-36 John 4: 1-38, 39-45 Luke 3: 19-20 Henry Ossawa Tanner [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Date: Guess at about 27 a.d. Reading | Nicodemus encounter with Jesus yields most quoted New Testament verses - For God so loved the world that God gave the one and only Son so that that all should not perish but have life eternal now. God did not come to condemn but rather to enter into relationship will all as a light to the creation; John the Baptist explains who Jesus is and what John is not; Jesus talks with a Samaritan woman - an outcast people to the Jews - and transforms her into an evangelist and many of Samaria come to believe; John is imprisoned by the sinner King Herod.  Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9   Next |  Day 272 | Tuesday | September 29 | Mark 1: 14-15  Matthew 4: 12-17  Luke 3: 23a  John 4: 46-54  Luk...