Twelve Days of Christmas (Page 2)

Readings:  Psalm 31 and Acts 6:8 – 7:60 Steve Baird Stephen’s powerful ministry was characterized by signs and miracles.  He was definitely having an effect, which did not go unnoticed by certain groups of the Jews. His wisdom and persuasiveness only increased their fury.  Unable to rebut his testimony, they conspired to accuse him of speaking “blasphemous words against Moses and God”. They stirred up the people, including the elders and scribes using false claims that twisted Stephen’s words to…

9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:9-13 Fr. Paul Calvin Jesus’s birth should…