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Daily Read
by InterVarsity Alabama
Daily Read is a podcast designed to bring you God’s Word, read aloud, with space to reflect and pray. Join folks from across InterVarsity as we stay connected to Jesus together. Our daily episodes feature a short passage of scripture read a couple of times, with some context and reflection questions to help you along the way.
Episodes
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Acts #55 - Returning with Faith
Acts 20:1-12 (NIV) Read by: Tammy Eckhart Have you ever felt stuck spiritually in a place? Have you ever had to return to that place later in life? In today’s passage we journey with Paul and his companions as they return from their journey to Macedonia to Troas. Traps was the place were they...
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Acts #54 - Disruptive, Blameless, or Both?
Acts 19:23-41 (NIV) Do you think the Gospel you’ve heard or live out has the power to disrupt cultural and economic structures that don’t honor God? Cities today are known for their architecture. Think of iconic landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Empire State Building in...
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Acts #53 - The Power of Jesus
Acts 19:13-22 (NIV) Read by: Ginger Montalvo Have you ever found yourself trying to use the name and the power of Jesus for your own gain? In today’s passage, Luke contrasts two groups of people and their response when they recognize the power of Jesus. One one hand we see the seven sons of…
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Heads Up - Pressing Pause
We'll be back Aug. 15 with the rest of Acts and Season 5! We want to give you our best and care for the family, so we are taking a break!
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Acts #52 - Ephesus
Acts 19:1-12 (NIV) Read by: Theo Leu As followers of Jesus we were made to live lives that flourish in word, deed, and power. Today’s episode features a passage from Acts that introduces us to Paul’s work in Ephesus. Now there's a lot that we could say about to open our understanding about the…
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Acts #51 - Mentors of the Faith
Acts 18:18-28 (NIV) Read by: Christy Gates When you think about the people who mentored you in the faith, who comes to mind? One person who I think of, when I think of my early days of following Jesus, is a man by the name of Ken McIntosh. I worked at a law firm while I was taking classes at a...
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Acts #50 - Corinth
Acts 18:1-17 (NIV) Read by: Javelin Lewis Sometimes God calls us to leave a place, sometimes he calls us to stay, the key is learning to discern the difference. Today’s passage in Acts brings us to Paul’s time in Corinth. Now, Corinth was the capital of a Roman province and was extremely steeped…
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Acts #49 - The Unknown God & the Risen Lord
Acts 17:16-34 (NIV) Read by: Kathy Haug Do you know anyone who believes there might be a God but we probably can’t know him, or who thinks of the world as spiritual> On today’s episode of Daily Read, Paul finds himself invited before two groups of greek philosophers that might fall into similar...
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Acts #48 - Jesus is LORD & Caesar is NOT
Acts 17:1-15 (NIV) Read by: Courtland Hopkins When we say that Jesus is LORD we by implication say that other things are not. Today on Daily Read, we see that from the very beginning, followers of Jesus have, in giving their allegiance to Jesus, had to withhold their allegiance to other kings and...
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Acts #47 - Multilevel Transformation
Acts 16:16-39 (NIV) Read by: Derekah Kingery When the Spirit of God shows up in a place, what do you expect to be transformed? Today’s story from Acts helps us see the kinds of things that get flipped upside down and inside out when God moves in power. And what we expect to be transformed by…
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Acts #46 - It's Complicated
Acts 16:1-15 (NIV) Read by: Kim Koi It’s one thing to trust God when the way forward is obvious. It’s way more complicated when the way forward is unclear and filled with questions. Today’s passage on Daily Read shows us just how complicated trying to participate in God’s work in the world can…
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Acts #45 - Parting Ways?
Acts 15:36-41 (NIV) When you have a sharp disagreement with someone, how do you know when it’s time to go separate ways? Today on Daily Read, we find Paul and Barnabas arguing over whether or not they should bring John Mark along with them as they plan to go back and visit the churches they’d...
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Acts #44 - Limitations or Invitations?
Acts 15:22-35 (NIV) Read by: Sarina Chatman When you hear about ethical and moral boundaries, do you hear them as limitations or invitations? Today’s episode of Daily Read picks up where yesterday’s passage left off. A council has gathered in Jerusalem to discern what to do about the growing…
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Acts #43 - Restored
Acts 15:12-21 (NIV) Read by: Hugo Castro If God is gracious and loving, then what are the boundaries of behaviour for those of us who begin to follow Jesus? This is a part of the questions that the followers of Jesus are trying to work out in today’s passage? Now that the Holy Spirit is moving in...
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Acts #42 - Us and Them?
Acts 15:1-11 (NIV) How do you respond when someone goes back on an agreement they’ve made with you? Today on Daily Read Paul and Barnabas return from their missionary journey to tell of all the ways that the Holy Spirit was moving among the Gentiles. It’s happening! What began with Cornelius is…
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Acts #41 - Remain True to the Faith
Acts 14:21-28 (NIV) Read by: David Luginbuhl What kind of advice have you received from the people who are further ahead in the faith? Today on Daily read Paul and Baranbas retrace their journey on their way back to Antioch. And as they do they leave the churches with a word of encouragement.…
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Acts #40 - Misunderstood
Acts 14:8-20 (NIV) Read by: Chandra Crane Have you ever tried to explain the good news and find that you are being completely misunderstood? Today’s passage is comical in that Paul and Barnabas are mistaken for God’s and worshiped on the one hand. And on the other it’s quite troubling to hear…
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Acts #39 - Boldness
Acts 14:1-7 (NIV) Read by: Brennan Takayama Are you willing to proclaim the good news even when the results might include division? It can be difficult in our society today to say things, especially around the truth of the gospel, that we know might very well contribute to the division that is so...
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Acts #38 - Jealousy
Acts 13:42-52 (NIV) Imagine the people who are misfits in your church, chapter, or community, what would you feel if they became the majority in your group? This is what we see begin to happen in today’s passage on Daily Read. You see the reason Paul tells the story the way he does, is to help...
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Acts #37 - Forgiveness of Sins
Acts 13:32-41 (NIV) Read by: Tim Craig Forgiveness. It’s something that doesn’t really come easy to us. I can’t think of a day since our younger daughter has been old enough to talk that we didn’t have to intervene in some sort of scuffle between our girls. Most of the time they play pretty well...
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Acts #36 - "Please Speak"
Acts 13:13-31 (NIV) What answer comes to mind when you hear the question: what do you believe? Today on Daily Read, Paul finds himself with an opportunity to exhort the people in Pisidian Antioch. And he uses this opportunity to tell the story of God’s people and how it leads to Jesus. Now some…
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Acts #35 - Facing Opposition
Acts 13:1-12 (NIV) Read by: Megan Littel Do you ever wish that the work of proclaiming the good news of Jesus would just be easier? In today’s episode, we look at the first encounter that Paul and Barnabas have on their first missionary journey. They were set apart to proclaim the word of God…
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Acts #34 - Trusting God Through Ambiguity
Acts 12:18-25 (NIV) What does it take for you to trust God in ambiguity? Today’s episode of Daily Read brings us to a transitional passage between the first half of Acts and the second half of Acts. Up to this point we’ve seen Jesus empower his disciples with the Holy Spirit to be his witnesses…
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Acts #33 - A Way Out of No Way
Acts 12:1-17 (NIV) Read by: Adriana Abuchar Have you ever seen the LORD make a way out of no way in your life? On today’s episode of Daily Read we hear about the miraculous rescue of Peter from prison. Today’s passage begins to wrap up the story of what’s going on with the twelve disciples. From...
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Acts #32 - Followers of Jesus
Acts 11:19-30 (NIV) What do you think of when you hear the word “Christian?” Today on Daily Read we start to really see the early church emerge as a people... as a family—a family that includes different ethnicities, cultures, social and economic stations, in different parts of the Roman world.…
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Acts #31 - Standing in God's Way
Acts 11:1-18 (NIV) Have you ever found yourself tempted to stand in God’s way by controlling how something goes or refusing to participate in something God's clearly doing? There is a reflection on humility available to us in today’s passage. As Peter returns to Jerusalem, and as word spreads…
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Acts #30 - Tolerance or Transformation?
Acts 10:23b-48 (NIV) Read by: Christy Gates When God calls you to engage people who are different from you culturally, socially, ideologically, do you engage for the sake of tolerance or for the sake of transformation? In today’s episode of Daily Read, the last several passages come to their…
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Acts #29 - A New Family
Acts 10:9-23a (NIV) Read by: Amanda Koch If someone you consider an enemy sent an invitation for you to come to their house, what would it take for you to respond? Today on Daily Read, Peter receives just that. Cornelius has been prompted by the LORD to send for Peter in Joppa, asking him to come...
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Acts #28 - Cornelius
Acts 10:1-8 (NIV) Read by: Tammy Eckhart How does God respond to those with power? Today on Daily Read like a new scene in a movie Luke’s narrative pans the camera over to a new character. Cornelius. Cornelius is a roman centurion station in Caesarea, and he’s about to get instructions from the...
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Acts #27 - Get Up
Acts 9:32-43 (NIV) Read by: Hugo Castro What are the places where you need healing from the Lord, where do you need things to go from death to life? Today on Daily Read, we follow Peter as he imitated Jesus and sees the Holy spirit move to heal people and bring a dead girl back to life. As you...
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Acts #26 - Saul Who?
Acts 9:19b-31 (NIV) Is there someone you know, who is hard to imagine as a follower of Jesus and a minister of the Gospel? One writer points out that Saul was a hard-lined, fanatical, ultra nationalist, super-orthodox Pharisaic Jew. This is not the kind of person who comes to mind as a candidate...
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Acts #25 - The Road to Damascus
Acts 9:1-19 (NIV) Read by: Kathy Haug What events in your life were most significant in shaping your spiritual life today? In today’s episode, we journey with Paul on the road to Damascus. Now, within the narrative of Acts, the only thing that we know about Paul is that his Jewish name is Saul…
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Acts #24 - How Far Will You Follow The Spirit?
Acts 8:26-40 (NIV) Read by: Kim Koi How far are you willing to follow when the Holy Spirit leads you? Today on Daily Ready we hear the story of Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch. While this passage might be familiar to some of us, we each have much to reflect on as we listen carefully to the...
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Acts #23 - Submitted to the Spirit?
Acts 8:9-25 (NIV) Read by: Shelly Scott Have you ever desired the Holy Spirit’s power without actually submitting yourself to the Spirit? Today on Daily Read, we hear the story of Simon from Samaria. As people are coming to believe in the LORD Jesus and be baptized, we learn that many of those...
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Acts #22 - By Means Unexpected
Acts 8:1b-8 (NIV) Read by: Derekah Kingery What do you do when God begins to do what He said He’d do, but in a way that costs you more and is more difficult than you anticipated? So far in the Book of Acts, Luke has carried us from his Gospel narrative into the life of the early Church. Jesus’...
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Acts #21 - I See Heaven
Acts 7:54-8:1a (NIV) Read by: Eric Peterson What kind of influence do you want your life to have? On today’s episode of Daily Read we find Stephen standing before the Sanhedrin, the leaders who are at the heart of Jewish life in Jerusalem. He’s been telling the story and had just called out the...
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Acts #20 - Tell The Story (5/5)
Acts 7:44-53 (NIV) Have you ever focused so much on the container of a thing that you’ve missed the thing itself? The words in today’s passage are the words that get Stephen killed. In the wisdom of the Spirit he tells the Jewish leaders responsible for the Law and the Temple, that they are...
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Acts #19 - Tell The Story (4/5)
Acts 7:30-43 (NIV) Read by: David Luginbuhl Have you ever felt like you are in a wilderness season in your life? In today’s episode we hear about how God called Moses, led him to free the people and then called him to lead the people through the wilderness. Have you ever noticed that when God…
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Acts #18 - Tell The Story (3/5)
Acts 7:20-29 (NIV) Read by: Javelin Lewis What has the LORD set you free from? Today on daily read, Stephen continues telling the story of God's faithfulness to humanity through Israel in the story of Moses. If you were in my church, and the preacher said, don’t we all got a story to tell? You...
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Acts #17 - Tell The Story (2/5)
Acts 7:9-19 (NIV) Read by: Sarina Chatman How does your understanding of where you come from influence your relationship to God? Today on Daily read we hear part 2 of Stephen’s telling of the story before the Jewish leaders in the Sanhedrin. If you haven’t listened to yesterday’s passage, it…
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Acts #16 - Tell The Story (1/5)
Acts 7:1-8 (NIV) Read by: Shelly Scott If you had to tell the story of Jesus, where would you begin? Have you ever had the experience, when someone asks you about something and you have to stop and think, where do I begin? This kind of thing happens to me when someone asks about how my wife and I...
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Acts #15 - Wisdom From the Spirit
Acts 6:8-15 (NIV) Read by: Tim Craig How do you react when someone brings a false or exaggerated accusation against you? Today on Daily Read, the story of what Jesus is doing through the Spirit who is empowering his followers brings us to Stephen. Now Stephen was one of the seven Hellenistic Jews...
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Acts #14 - Overlooked
Acts 6:1-7 (NIV) Read by: Skip McDonald Who among your community of faith is the first to be overlooked, and how does your community tend to respond? The nature of any growing family is that as it expands and grows, things are going to have to adjust and shift in order to accommodate the changing...
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Acts #13 - Two Temples And a Call to Repent
Acts 5:27-42 (NIV) Read by: Alanah Nantell What is it that keeps us from repentance and the forgiveness and restoration of Jesus? Today we continue in what some have called “The Tale of Two Temples.” The old temple is now bereft of God’s Spirit... The line of priests and religious leaders who…
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Acts #12 - Jealousy & Fear
Acts 5:12-26 (NIV) What do you do when you are filled with jealousy or fear? In today’s passage, we find the believers growing in number and influence across Jerusalem and the surrounding towns. It’s happening right? They are Jesus’ witnesses in Jerusalem and now going out into Judea. The…
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Acts #11 - God's New Temple
Acts 5:1-11 (NIV) Read by: Summer Richardson Yesterday we looked at the earliest community of Jesus followers and what they were like. They were unified, they shared all they had, and they were bold in telling others about the work of God in Jesus… And they were all of these things because they...
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Acts #10 - A Spirit-Filled Community
Acts 4:32-37 (NIV) Read by: Ginger Montalvo What would it look like if the community that you belong to was filled with the Holy Spirit? For many of us, what comes to mind when we think about the Holy Spirit, what comes to mind is speaking in tongues, prophetic words, visions and dreams, or…
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Acts #9 - Sovereign LORD
Acts 4:23-31 (NIV) Read by: Courtland Hopkins In today’s passage we go with Peter and John from their encounter with the Sanhedrin back to their community of Jesus followers. They talk about what happened, they pray, and they are filled with the Holy Spirit. They ask for the LORD to see the…
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Acts #8 - By What Power?
Acts 4:1-22 (NIV) Read by: Chandra Crane Have you ever been preparing for a trip and reading all the guidebooks or websites to learn about the place you’re going? Then, you get there, and, while some of the information is helpful, you really figure out the place by just experiencing it. In…
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Acts #7 - Repentance and Refreshment
Acts 3:11-26 (NIV) Read by: Kathy Haug If you were inside the story at this point in the book of acts you’d be standing just outside the gate of the temple called Beautiful. Maybe you’d be among the crowd gathering around Peter, John, and this man in tattered clothes who reminds you of the man…
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Daily Read is a podcast designed to bring you God’s Word, read aloud, with space to reflect and pray. Join folks from across InterVarsity as we stay connected to Jesus together. Our daily episodes feature a short passage of scripture read a couple of times, with some context and reflection questions to help you along the way.
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