Daily Bread Pastor Mike Anderson 2026

Acts 20 Eutychus Raised From the Dead at Troas 7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight. 8 There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. 9 Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. 10 Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!” 11 Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. 12 The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted. As Paul continues on his third missionary journey, much of his work is going back to existing groups of believers in different cities and encouraging them. In this chapter, we see his farewell speech given to the Ephes...

Acts 19 19 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” 3 So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?” “John’s baptism,” they replied. 4 Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” 5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. 7 There were about twelve men in all. When Paul returns to Ephesus, he finds some "disciples" and asks them if they received the Holy Spirit when they believed. There is much debate among commentators whether or not they were believers in Jesus, or just disciples of John the Baptist. There are some passa...

Acts 18 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.” So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God. Paul left Macedonia to go to Corinth, and immediately he met Priscilla and Aquilla. He became a "tentmaker", as he worked to support his preaching of the gospel. As usual Paul went into the synagogue and got little response from the Jews. In fact they became abusive, so Paul wiped his hands of them and said, "May your blood be on your head from now on, I am going to the Gentiles." So he went next door, where a "God-fearer" named a man named "Titius Justus" was receptive to his message. Then, the synagogue leader Crispus believed, and he and his whole house were baptized. It is in this context Paul received a vision from the Lord. The Lord spoke and told...

Acts 17 In Berea 10 As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. 11 Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. 12 As a result, many of them believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men. Paul and Silas continued to visit the Jewish synagogues in Macedonia, and preach that Jesus is the Messiah, as the Old Testament predicted. They stopped first in Thessalonica, where it says some of the Jews were persuaded, and a large number of God fearing Greeks and prominent women were as well. Other Jews were jealous of the attention they were getting, and got them run out of town. Next Paul and Silas were sent to Berea, a small town in Southwest Macedonia. And what was the difference between the Jews in Berea, and the Jews in The...

Acts 16 Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia 6 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. 7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to. 8 So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. 9 During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. Paul's companions have now changed to Silas and Timothy, as went John Mark left and went back to be with Barnabas. Timothy, we learn was young but well thought of in his home town of Lystra. Timothy's mother and grandmother had raised him in the Jewish faith and he became a believer when Paul and Barnabas went through his town earlier. ...

Acts:16 The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.” As in most any church, as it grows, there is bound to be conflict. Mark says in chapter 3, "A church divided against itself cannot stand." We might also add, "A Church united cannot fall." After all Jesus said upon his confession of faith in Him, "On this rock (Peter's c...

Acts 14:11 When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!” 12 Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes because he was the chief speaker. 13 The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting: 15 “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in it. As Paul and Barnabas traveled around modern-day Turkey, they preached the Good News to the Jews in the synagogue, and a good number of Gentiles. The passage says their preaching was "effective", and many came to believe. Greg Lauri...