Author name: Connie Shipley

ACTS 16 Reflections on Acts 16: 13-15, 25-33   When it comes to reading the scriptures, I must admit that I find some chapters in the Bible as a rather […]

ACTS 15   Reflections on Acts15:1-35   You must take things in context.  In that regard, Acts chapter 15 comes after stories in the earlier portions of the book.  The

Luke 2:1-7 2 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor

Acts 10:1-33 10 In Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian Cohort, as it was called. 2 He was a devout man who feared God with all his

Psalm 51 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse

Romans 8:37-39 No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers,

Ezekiel 9:4: And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that

Hebrews 2:9-10 9 but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower[b] than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so

Prayer (Psalm 51 selected verses) Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your steadfast love; according to Your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my

When I was a youth, I had a cross necklace that I bought from Montreat. It was made from three nails. It was artistic and cool, but it also reminded