Reading: Acts 4:1-4 NLT
While Peter and John were speaking to the people, they were confronted by the priests, the captain of the Temple guard, and some of the Sadducees.
Rossi, inaugurated on Friday the massive new Roman Catholic church that will hold about 20,000 worshippers when complete. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
These leaders were very disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people that through Jesus there is a resurrection of the dead.
They arrested them and, since it was already evening, put them in jail until morning.
But many of the people who heard their message believed it, so the number of believers now totaled about 5,000 men, not counting women and children.
Prayer: Lord Jesus – Fill your church with your Spirit. Guide and direct your servants to seek and save those who are lost. Baptize them into your family and make them spirit and truth worshipers. Teach and train them to become more like you and send them out to tell others of your mercy and grace. And may you receive all the glory. Amen.
Hymn: “We’ve a Story to Tell to the Nations” – H. Ernest Nichol (1896)
The Peanut Gallery 
Art, thank you for posting this inspiring video.
You’re welcome. God is working in amazing ways all around the world.
Acts certainly shows the Holy Spirit moving people to believe! And it’s easy to forget that today as we live and work with people who have heart the Gospel for so long and have strayed from the Truth. But HE still grows his church! It’s growing in the 4 corners of the earth! Praise God!
We sing that song in church, although, with more of a marching type of music. Thank you so much for presenting the Acts! It’s so inspiring.
Acts gives us a glimpse of a new church marching forward boldly as led by the Holy Spirit. It just gets better as the story unfolds.