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today's Devotional. Hey, thanks for joining us today. I'm Mike Bro, and this is the Daily Drive, where we

have been walking through a major book of the New Testament called the book of

Acts. And we're not doing an exhaustive verse-by-verse journey, but rather we're grabbing a few

highlights along the way. And I hope you will read the entire book. It was written by a meticulous

historian slash doctor named Luke, who carefully researched everything and was an eyewitness to a good part of it.

It's known as the acts of the apostles, but it's really the acts of the Holy Spirit, because he is

in everything, and the grace and power of God is on full display. We left off yesterday in chapter

8, where after the stoning death of a good man named

Stephen, a great wave of persecution breaks out against the whole church. And the followers of

Jesus are now scattered into places all over Judea and Samaria. They are, as we talked about

yesterday, moved out of the comfort zone and into the courageous zone.

And the cool thing is, they embraced it. It says this in verse number four of chapter 8,

but the believers who were scattered preach the good news about Jesus wherever they went.

I love this. They were no longer living in the comfort of their hometown, but they

were still living on mission. They were living in places they never dreamed they'd ever live,

but they're telling everybody they meet about the good news of Jesus Christ. And one of those

courageous people was a guy named Philip. Like Stephen, he was one of those compassionate guys

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