In Peter's incarceration nothing was left to chance. He was heavily guarded until the show trial. The religious and civic leaders were salivating over the prospect. Persecution is always the product of pure and blind hatred. Any possibility of justice is set aside. Peter is in grave and imminent danger. The fate of James is proof of that. Everyone knows what is likely. The church doesn't seem to panic but resorts to fervent prayer (v5).

My grandfather inherited one of the hotels, which my mother took over when she was twenty-two, and where my sister and I were born and raised. You could say that my great-grandfather's striking it rich changed the course of our family, and determined my destiny. As a friend once said to me when I commented on how he was always raising money for good causes, "With money you can make things happen." When I was fourteen years old I struck it rich when I discovered, what St.

In the parable of the prodigal son Jesus gives us a picture of salvation. The prodigal son takes his inheritance, leaves home and goes off and squanders it in a strange land far away from his family. He is reduced to tending pigs and eating their food. He comes to his senses and resolves to return home, i.e. repent of his sins. "I have sinned against heaven and against you.

Ephesians 1:20-23 sees the role of Christ as basic to understanding, not only God, but also all creation. Christ cannot be relegated to being just a moral teacher or merely a good man. "For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of his Mother, born in the world; Perfect God and Perfect Man." (Athanasian Creed)