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https://www.ocfusa.org/2018/12/acts-chapter-4/ Season of Epiphany Bible in Time: New Testament Study The year that we are studying | 32-33 CE/ad Today: Acts 4; Edwards, pp. 37-39 Monday, 11 Jan 21: Acts 4 & 5; Edwards, pp. 41-42 January Assignments Calendar Prayer Suggestion:  Watch and pray | Fr. Daniel Paul Richards | Daily around 8:30 am MT | Facebook | Click here | Scroll down to posts Dear Friends in Christ, Edwards Key points - Edwards does an excellent job in short explanations to give the historical setting of the year we are looking at. Get the book. Israel under foreign occupation Early Christian community lived together and shared everything in common. My Thoughts- Peter and John are proclaiming Jesus and are arrested by Sadducees. These religious leaders did NOT believe in the resurrection. They order P & J to stop. Peter says we obey God’s authority alone. In session without P & J Sadducees decide to tell them to stop preaching and they are releas...

Day 312 | Sunday | November 8 | Acts 3: 1-10, 11-26 Acts 4: 1-22, 23-31, 32-37 Acts 5: 1-11, 12-16, 17-42 Saint Peter  by  Peter Paul Rubens shows the saint holding the  Keys of Heaven and wearing the  pallium Reading | Peter heals a beggar, preaches in Temple; Peter and John arrested; released; community prays for courage; all share everything in common;  Ananias and Sapphira hold back and die when confronted by it; apostles heal many and are opposed for their message by the Sadducees; if their activity is human it will fail – if divine it will succeed. Next |  Day 313 | Monday | November 9 | Acts 6: 1-7, 8-15  Acts 7: 1– 8: 1a  Source|  Tyndale (2012-03-19). The One Year Chronological Bible NIV (Kindle Locations 74319-74323). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition.  +++ Collect of the Day: Pentecost, proper 27 O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the...