Psalms 13-15, Acts 19:21-41 • Key Verse: Psalm 15:1 Two friends who minister in Asia have had special opportunities to meet visiting dignitaries. A few years ago when Prince Charles was visiting the country, the wife received an invitation to a reception. More recently it was the husbands turn when...

Psalms 10-12, Acts 19:1-20 • Key Verse: Acts 19:15 If you are a “nominal Christian—that is, you live the Christian life in name only—the devil probably will not bother you much. Why should he? You are little or no threat to him. But when you determine to be a fully...

Psalms 7 – 9, Acts 18 • Key Verse: Psalm 9:10 To the casual observer, the wedding party looked typical. The bride wore white; her groom stood tall next to her. The bridal party had the usual complement of bridesmaids, groomsmen, a matron of honor, best man, flower girl and...

Psalms 4-6, Acts 17:16-34 • Key Verse: Psalm 4:8 When he wanted to let me know how little trouble he had sleeping, a friend would say, “I could sleep on the soft side of a board.” For others, though, the agony of insomnia is real. We can have trouble both...

Psalms 1 – 3, Acts 17:1-15 • Key Verse: Acts 17:11 In the church I attended as a young person we had a name for the sound of Bible pages turning. So many people had the same Bible that the collective rustling sound was called “the Scofield shuffle.” Instead of...

Job 41-42, Acts 16:22-40 • Key Verses: Job 42:5-6 Have you ever wished you could take back what you said? Probably the question isn’t if you ever did that but how often you have—or how recently! Some of us have “foot-shaped mouths,” the result from too often putting our foot...

Job 38—40, Acts 16:1—21 • Key Verses: Acts 16:9—10 A sure way to end an argument is to say, “I believe it is God’s will.” Who can argue with that? Even Peter used it when he said in his defense, “Who was I to think that I could oppose God?”...

Job 36-37 Acts 15:22-41 • Key verse: 15:32 Can you finish this line from an old song: “Where seldom is heard…”? The answer is “a discouraging word.” The song, “Home on the Range,” paints, a picture of an idyllic place where even the words said are seldom discouraging. If only...

Job 34—35, Acts 15:1—21 Key Verse: Acts 15:9 Old habits die hard, but it seems at times as if old habits hardly die. Habits are called such for good reason—they are so ingrained that we do them without thinking. Sometimes a habit is not a matter of what we do...

Job 32—33, Acts 14 • Key Verses: Acts 14:21-23 A recent business trend has been that of writing a mission statement—a concise paragraph stating in a memorable way the purpose of a business or organization. Added to it might be some objectives and an explanation of how those objectives will...