On this Friday in Easter Week, we continue to hear in the Book of Acts how Peter and the Apostles proclaimed the saving acts and the Resurrection of Jesus to the world:
While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came to them, much annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming that in Jesus there is the resurrection of the dead. So they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. But many of those who heard the word believed; and they numbered about five thousand.
The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. When they had made the prisoners stand in their midst, they inquired, ‘By what power or by what name did you do this?’ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, ‘Rulers of the people and elders, if we are questioned today because of a good deed done to someone who was sick and are asked how this man has been healed, 10let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that this man is standing before you in good health by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead. This Jesus is “the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; it has become the cornerstone.”
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved.’ (Acts 4: 1-12).
Peter, the coward who denied Jesus three times, is now proclaiming the forgiveness of sins through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ to the very authorities that tried Jesus and wanted to put him to death. Peter had experienced the forgiveness of Jesus and finally understood what Jesus was about— reconciling us to God and to each other.
Let us pray: Almighty Father, who gave your only Son to die for our sins and to rise for our justification: Give us grace so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve you in pureness of living and truth; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINISTRY:
You can be a witness to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ by participating in: the Prayer Shawl Ministry, the Sunday Fellowship Breakfast, the History Project, SASS, Saturday Art Classes, the Community Garden, the Annual Art Show, praying for those on our Prayer List and the Altar Guild.
CALENDAR REMINDERS:
S.A.S.S. is Thursday nights starting with a pot luck dinner at 6 p.m.
Mother’s Day is 8 May. Don’t forget Mom!
Please remember everyone on our prayer list.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came to them, much annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming that in Jesus there is the resurrection of the dead. So they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. But many of those who heard the word believed; and they numbered about five thousand.
The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. When they had made the prisoners stand in their midst, they inquired, ‘By what power or by what name did you do this?’ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, ‘Rulers of the people and elders, if we are questioned today because of a good deed done to someone who was sick and are asked how this man has been healed, 10let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that this man is standing before you in good health by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead. This Jesus is “the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; it has become the cornerstone.”
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved.’ (Acts 4: 1-12).
Peter, the coward who denied Jesus three times, is now proclaiming the forgiveness of sins through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ to the very authorities that tried Jesus and wanted to put him to death. Peter had experienced the forgiveness of Jesus and finally understood what Jesus was about— reconciling us to God and to each other.
Let us pray: Almighty Father, who gave your only Son to die for our sins and to rise for our justification: Give us grace so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve you in pureness of living and truth; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINISTRY:
You can be a witness to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ by participating in: the Prayer Shawl Ministry, the Sunday Fellowship Breakfast, the History Project, SASS, Saturday Art Classes, the Community Garden, the Annual Art Show, praying for those on our Prayer List and the Altar Guild.
CALENDAR REMINDERS:
S.A.S.S. is Thursday nights starting with a pot luck dinner at 6 p.m.
Mother’s Day is 8 May. Don’t forget Mom!
Please remember everyone on our prayer list.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
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