Grace To discern and share what I’ve been learning and needing from God with the broader Body of Christ. Readings Acts 19:21-41 Acts 20:1-16 Acts 20:17-38 Lent reading: Isaiah 43:16-21 Reading Deeper… Jim Reiher, The Book of Acts: A Social Justice Commentary, pages 191-215. Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to be still and rest in God.
Grace That we find and invite Jesus as disguised among ‘the least of these’ into our lives and open homes. Readings Acts 18:18-28 Acts 19:1-10 Acts 19:11-20 Luke 15:1-32 (Lent Reading) Reading deeper… Jim Reiher, The Book of Acts: A Social Justice Commentary, pages 187-191. Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together,
Grace To resist the idols of our day in order to seek my neighbour’s freedom from oppression. Readings Acts 17:16-28 Acts 17:29-18:4 Acts 18:5-17 Isaiah 55:1-9 Reading Deeper… Jim Reiher, The Book of Acts: A Social Justice Commentary, pages 169-185. Devotion 1 Read: Acts 17:16-28 What are some of the systems that promise us “salvation”?
Grace That we invite and support neighbourhood-based discipleship and worship. Readings Acts 16:35-40 Acts 17:1-9 Acts 17:10-15 Psalm 27 (Lent Reading) Reading deeper… Jim Reiher, The Book of Acts: A Social Justice Commentary, pages 163-168. Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Acts
Grace To see our neighbours and neighbourhood experience the abundance of community. Readings Acts 16:6-15 Acts 16:16-24 Acts 16:25-34 Deuteronomy 26:1-11 (Lent Reading) Reading deeper… Jim Reiher, The Book of Acts: A Social Justice Commentary, pages 151-163. Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard.
Grace To experience the resurrection power of Christ identify with Christ’s suffering Readings Acts 15:30-35 Acts 15:36-40 Acts 16:1-5 Psalm 51 (Lent Reading) Reading deeper… Jim Reiher, The Book of Acts: A Social Justice Commentary, pages 140-151. Devotion 1 Focus: Spend some time worshipping God and focusing thoughts on how he is limitless and cannot
Grace To not take ourselves too seriously but take seriously the time God has graced us with. Readings Acts 14:1-7 Acts 14:8-20 Acts 14:21-28 Acts 15:1-29 Devotion 1 – Bold witnesses Take some time to still your hearts and minds before reading the passage. Read: Acts 14: 1-7 Ask: What stands out to you in
Grace To proclaim God’s good news in word, deed and sign. Readings Acts 13:1-3 Acts 13:4-12 Acts 13:13-43 Acts 13:44-52 Reading deeper… Jim Reiher, The Book of Acts: A Social Justice Commentary, Chapter 13. Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Acts 13:1-3
Grace To identify with Christ’s suffering Readings Acts 12:1-5 Acts 12:6-19 Acts 12:20-25 Reading deeper… Jim Reiher, The Book of Acts: A Social Justice Commentary, Chapter 12. Devotion 1 Wait: Take time to sit in silence together, allowing space for God’s voice to be heard. Read: Acts 12:1-5 Reflection: Acts 12 opens with an ominous
This week we pick up our reading of Acts again at the beginning of chapter 11. We left the story with Paul, having travelled to the home of Cornelius, sharing the good news of Jesus with his household and, to the astonishment of those with Peter, seeing God’s Spirit poured out “even on the Gentiles”…