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A message based on Acts 2:1-21 (Inclusive Bible): When the day of Pentecost arrived, they all met in one room. Suddenly they heard what sounded like a violent, rushing wind from heaven; the noise filled the entire house in which they were sitting. Something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each one. They were all filled with the Hol...

A messaged based on John 17:20-26:  [Jesus prayed:] “I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one.  As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in th...

A message based on John 5:2-9: Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, Jesus said to the man, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answe...

A message based on John 13:33-35:  Jesus said, “Little children, I am with you only a little longer.  You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’  I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.  Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love f...

A message based on John 10:22-30:  At that time the Festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem.  It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon.  So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense?  If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”  Jesus answered, “I have told you, and you do not believe.  The works that I do in...

A message based on John 21:1-19:  After Jesus appeared to his followers in Jerusalem, he showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he showed himself in this way.  Gathered there together were Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.  Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to h...

A message based on Luke 24:1-12: On the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.  They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,  but when they went in they did not find the body.  While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them.  The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the gr...

A message based on Luke 19:14-40: After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of the disciples, saying, "Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, 'Why are...

A message based on John 12:1-8:  Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.  There they gave a dinner for Jesus. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him.  Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’s feet, and wiped them with her hair.  The house was filled with the fragrance of the pe...

A message based on Joshua 5:9-12 and Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 -  Joshua 5:9-12:  The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.”  And so that place is called Gilgal to this day. While the Israelites were camped in Gilgal, they kept the Passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the plains of Jericho.  On the day after the Passover, on that very day...

A message based on Luke 13:1-9 and Isaiah 55:1-9 - Luke 13:1-9:  At that very time there were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.  Jesus asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans?  No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as they did....

A message based on Luke 13:31-35: At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to Jesus, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.”  Jesus said to the Pharisees, “Go and tell that fox for me, ‘Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work.  Yet today, tomorrow, and the next day I must be on my way, because it is impossible...

A message based on Luke 4:1-13:  Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days Jesus was tested by the devil.  Jesus ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over he was famished.  The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread.”   Jesus answered the devil,...

A message based on Luke 9:28-43a:  Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.  And while Jesus was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning.  Suddenly Peter, John, and James saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to Jesus.  Moses, Elijah, and Jesus appeared i...

A message based on Luke 6:27-38:  Jesus said:  “But I say to you who are listening:  Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you; bless those who curse you; pray for those who mistreat you.  If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt.  Give to everyone who asks of you, and if anyone takes away what is your...

A message based on Luke 6:17-26:  Jesus came down with the twelve and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon.  They had come to hear Jesus and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured.  And all in the crowd were trying to touch Jesus, fo...

A messaged based on Luke 5:1-11: Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, Jesus saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.  Jesus got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked Simon to put out a little way from the shore.  Then Jesu...

A message based on Luke 4:21-30:  Then [Jesus] began to say to [all in the synagogue in Nazareth,] “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”  All spoke well of Jesus and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.  They said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”  Jesus said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Doctor, cure yourself!’  And you will say, ‘D...

A message based on Luke 4:14-21:  Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country.  Jesus began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom.  He stood up to read, and the scrol...

A message based on John 2:1-11: On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.  Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.  When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”  And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to you and to me?  My hour has not yet come.”  His mother said to the servants, “...

A message based on Luke 3:15-17, 21-22:   As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals.  He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.  His winn...

A message based on Matthew 2:1-12:  In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, magi from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews?  For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.”  When King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him; and calling together all the chief pries...

A message based on Luke 1:39-55:  In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.  When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb.  And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. ...

A message based on Luke 3:7-18:  John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers!  Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?  Bear fruits worthy of repentance.  Do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.  Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees;...

A mesage based on Luke 3:1-6:  In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,  during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.  He went into all th...