Author name: Connie Shipley

ACTS 22 Reflections on Acts 22:1-16   We all have a story (a life story and a faith story.)  It’s interesting to listen to the story of one of the […]

ACTS 21 Reflections on Acts 21:5-7, 17-18 Sometimes the reading of scripture triggers images in my memory.  In Acts chapter 21, we find a travelogue of sorts, as Paul is

ACTS 20   Reflections on Acts 20:7-12   This is a story for the ages.  Most preachers are intrigued by the tale.  And many people who have been subjected to

ACTS 19   Reflections on Acts19:1-7   The Acts of the Apostles has also been called the story of “the Church in the Power of the Spirit.  You can almost

ACTS 18   Reflections on Acts 18:9-11   There are some things in the Bible that stand out because of repetition.  God speaking to God’s people in the night is

ACTS 17   Reflections on Acts 17:16-28   Paul was a good politician.  I once thought that calling something in the church “political”, or someone in the faith a “politician”

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