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Go with Living Water because it was your first choice and is probably what the Lord is leading you to study.

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Maybe he was trying to get them to notice that they had neglected to keep the temple clean of dirt? That dirt was over pavement that should have been swept clean wasn't it? Clean up your own house first?

Yes, how we interpret the "intent" of Simon's response is the question. Some say he was contrite, others say that he was depending on Peter's connection with God to deliver him from the curse of Deut. If the other historical accounts about Simon can be trusted he did not turn out well. He...

Peter said he was in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity. Peter was referring to Deut 29:18 which adds much to the conversation. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.a 19When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt,A...

He believed and was baptized. He and the Samaritans would qualify as saved in the doctrinal sense of the "saved by grace through faith" doctrine that we preach to others today. It would be confusion to suggest that they were not yet saved until Peter and John laid hands on them. So if the Holy...

I hear you. I am not arguing with you. Just giving my thoughts. I have always taken the position that God will do the same things he did in Acts today for the same reasons that He did them in Acts. If we live like those Holy Spirit filled preachers in Acts we will experience the same...

The people brought their sick out hoping that Peter's shadow would heal them. Peter did not tell them to do that. It was never normative and not something to be compared with the gift of prophesy that Paul wrote about and said that we could pray for. As to comparing the Old Testament Prophets...

The gift of prophesy in the Church in the book of Acts is clear. There were many examples like when they warned Paul about what was going to happen when he went to Jerusalem. Or about a famine. And then in 1 Cor 14 when Paul talked about giving a prophesy and an unbeliever visiting their...

I think I know what you mean. But here is my perspective and I think I speak for many who are like me. I am not a musician but I have been told that the old hymns were different in the way they keep time or something. I don't know but I know that I cannot sing most old hymns even if someone...

I hear you. I don't like every new song. Sometimes I am waiting for it to end. I think worship leaders should be able to know that. If they do, they should not use that song. Unity among the believers is more important than pushing a song on them that they might have issues with.

I believe that the gifts of the Spirit are being used by modern worship ministers to write and produce better Hymns today. I find the lyrics better than many of the old Hymns that some claim are deeper. I did a comparison and found that to not be true at all. The older Hymns are often light...

I was born again and grew in the Lord for several months before I quit smoking. There came a point when I knew that the Holy Spirit was telling me that I was willfully sinning if I kept doing it. I did not even think about it at the beginning. It never crossed my mine as being a sin. And I...

I doubt that these modern translations are ignoring the best manuscripts in extant when they do their work. My sense of reality leads me to believe that selecting the best, most trustworthy, manuscripts and variants is a major foundational principle in doing these translations.

You have to be willing to be executed by wicked unbelievers if that's what they threaten you with for following Jesus Christ. You have to be willing to let them take away all your material possessions as punishment for following Christ, and just keep following Him anyway. You have to be...