Daily Bread Pastor Mike Anderson 2026

In Corinth 18  After this, Paul left Athens  and went to Corinth.   2  There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla,  because Claudius  had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,   3  and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.   4  Every Sabbath  he reasoned in the synagogue,  trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.  5  When Silas  and Timothy  came from Macedonia,  Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.   6  But when they opposed Paul and became abusive,  he shook out his clothes in protest  and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads!  I am innocent of it.  From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”  7  Then Paul left the synagogue and went next door to the house of Titius Justus, a worsh...

Acts 17:22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus  and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.   23  For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:  to an unknown god . So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship —and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.  24  “The God who made the world and everything in it  is the Lord of heaven and earth  and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25  And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26  From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.   27  God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not fa...

Act 16:13 Lydia the Purple Cloth Dealer  In the Sabbath  we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.   14  One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira  named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart  to respond to Paul’s message.   15  When she and the members of her household  were baptized,  she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us. Acts 16:29 Conversion of the Philippian Jailer The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.   30  He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31  They replied, “Believe  in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved —you and your household.”   32  The...

Acts 15:6 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.   8  God, who knows the heart,  showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them,  just as he did to us.   9  He did not discriminate between us and them,  for he purified their hearts by faith.   10  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?   11  No! We believe it is through the grace  of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.” As more and more Gentiles came to faith in Christ, some of the traditional Jews incited by the Pharisees began to question why Gentile converts were not circumcised according to Jewish law...

In Iconium 14  At Iconium  Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue.  There they spoke so effectively that a great number  of Jews and Greeks believed.   2  But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.   3  So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly  for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders.   4  The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles.   5  There was a plot afoot among both Gentiles and Jews,  together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them.   6  But they found out about it and fled  to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country, 7  where they continued to preach  the gospel. I n the book of Acts, we see the church start to grow rapid...

13   1  Now in the church at Antioch  there were prophets  and teachers:  Barnabas,  Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene,  Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod  the tetrarch) and Saul.   2  While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,  “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work  to which I have called them.”   3  So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them  and sent them off. Remember it was at the church in Antioch that the believers were called "Christians".  This is also near the area where Saul was converted on the way to Damascus.  The passage says there were in the church both "prophets" and "teachers". These are two of the spiritual gifts given by the Holy Spirit to Jesus disciples at Pentecost.  A prophet was someone who brought a word from God.  God used them as messengers in the Old Testament, and in the New Testament...

12  It was about this time that King Herod  arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.   2  He had James, the brother of John,  put to death with the sword.   3  When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews,  he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.   4  After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.  5  So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.  6  The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains,  and sentries stood guard at the entrance.   7  Suddenly an angel  of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he ...