The Morning Portion

Antioch heard the letter and rejoiced. The chapter that opened in dissension closes with prophets strengthening brethren and the word of the Lord still moving. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-07-10-the-fight-that-ended-in-joy Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

The council's answer traveled to Antioch as a letter, and one sentence in it outweighs the whole list: it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-07-09-the-holy-ghost-and-us Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

James pastored the most law-keeping city on earth, and everyone expected him to defend the old requirement. He answered with a prophet instead. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-07-08-the-man-with-the-most-to-lose Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

When the Jerusalem council stalled in dispute, Peter stood and told what he watched God do in a Roman house. His last sentence turned the question around. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-07-07-saved-even-as-they Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Stoning, prison, and the sword had not slowed the church. An argument between believers came closer, and what Antioch did with it still instructs. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-07-06-the-argument-that-walked-to-jerusalem Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

The gospel that reached an enemy's living room was sent to every creature on earth. Take the word everyone and refuse to shrink it. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-07-03-every-creature-no-exceptions Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Peter never finished his sermon. The Holy Ghost fell on a Roman household with the same sign as Pentecost, and the believers who came with him were astonished before they were glad. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-07-02-the-sermon-god-interrupted Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

The wall between Jew and Gentile did not fall because Cornelius changed. It fell because Peter finally saw what God had said since Abraham. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-07-01-nothing-changed-but-peters-eyes Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

God did not argue Peter out of his old categories. He stated the new instruction and stated it again, until Peter moved. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-30-the-voice-that-kept-repeating Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Cornelius was praying long before anyone preached to him, and heaven had already kept every word. The outsider you wrote off may be closer to God than you are. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-29-the-enemy-who-was-already-praying Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

The man who held the coats at Stephen's stoning wrote thirteen letters of the New Testament. If God could reach Saul, the name you filed under hopeless belongs back on your prayer list. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-26-from-the-coats-to-the-letters Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Jesus made loving an enemy a list of verbs, and prayer leads the list. You do not have to like a person to ask God to do for them what only God can do, and prayer is the one move possible on the hardest day. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-25-the-verbs-of-loving-an-enemy Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Ananias was sent to the man who came to arrest believers, and the first word out of his mouth was Brother. Before the scales fell and before the sight returned, he called his enemy family. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-24-when-ananias-said-brother Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Struck blind on the Damascus road, Saul sat three days in the dark before Ananias ever came. The silent stretch was not a delay on the way to the work; it was God doing the work. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-23-the-dark-before-the-sight Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Saul was earnest, studied, and certain, and all of it was aimed at the people of God. Sincerity is not the same as truth, and the most dangerous wrong is the kind that feels righteous. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-22-sincere-and-wrong Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Samaria got the same gospel Peter preached at Pentecost, in the same order. The name that saved you is the only one there is, and it reaches the people you gave up on. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-19-no-other-name Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

David did not talk himself out of his sin. He asked God to do surgery on the inside of him, then promised to teach. Restored people teach. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-18-the-prayer-simon-wouldnt-pray Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Simon was baptized and still heard Peter say his heart was not right. You can be all the way inside the church and still be carrying the wrong thing in with you. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-17-what-you-want-it-forListen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Philip's revival in Samaria grew out of one conversation Jesus had at a well years before. The seed you plant keeps working long after you quit watching for it. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-16-the-seed-you-forgot-you-planted Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Persecution drove the church out of Jerusalem, and the gospel traveled in their luggage. The thing that broke the church open is what carried it the rest of the way. Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-15-the-scattering-was-the-sending Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Peter's promise reached beyond the adults who heard him preach. Acts 2 names children, distant people, and everyone the Lord our God shall call. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. -- Acts 2:39 (KJV) Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-12-the-promise-names-your-children Listen or subscribe: h...

The Spirit-filled church did not leave Pentecost as a memory. They kept learning, praying, sharing meals, opening their hands, and watching the Lord add to His church. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. -- Acts 2:42 (KJV) Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-11-what-filled-people-keep-doing Listen or sub...

Peter did not leave the pierced crowd with a vague feeling of conviction. He gave them a clear answer: repent, be baptized in Jesus' name, and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. -- Acts 2:38 (KJV) Read along: https://morningpor...

The first public sign of Pentecost carried the works of God into languages people could understand. The Spirit filled the church, and the street heard. And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? -- Acts 2:8 (KJV) Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-09-the-gospel-in-their-own-tongue Listen or subscribe: https://morningportion.com/listen

Pentecost did not fall on a select few in the upper room. The promise filled every waiting believer, and that still matters for anyone who feels easy to overlook. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. -- Acts 2:4 (KJV) Read along: https://morningportion.com/posts/2026-06-08-when-all-were-filled Listen or subscribe: h...