(Acts 9:13-14) This is an unpleasant and dangerous task, as far as Ananias is concerned, and he simply wants to avoid it. Having a healthy regard for your safety is not in itself displeasing to God.

While the three men called “Ananias” in Acts aren’t necessarily major characters, they do play important roles. And each teaches us powerful lessons. The book of Acts records the growth of the early ...

Ananias and his wife Sapphira sold part of their property. In those days, from time to time, those who owned property sold them and brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles feet ...

To modern listeners the story of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 is particularly difficult: with a casual smiting for a seemingly bad-call about money? Would first century followers of the Way, living ...

He singled them out from among the other captives to serve him, and renamed them thus: Daniel was named Baltazar; Ananias, Sedrach ... His prophetical book, which is divided into twelve chapters, is ...

It behooves us all to know as much as we can about Moses and The Ten Commandments and Jesus of Nazareth. The first time we ...

3 Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?

Many of classic rock’s biggest acts stayed busy in 2024 despite constant (inaccurate) proclamations that rock is dying. These legends found plenty of ways to grab headlines with new music ...

The concept of stewardship, and the way in which this idea is used and abused, runs throughout the book. Large landowners have used their self-proclaimed role as “stewards of the countryside ...

The phrase ‘so help me God’ is believed to be a part of the presidential oath ever since George Washington is said to have ...

President Joe Biden is the latest chief executive to save most of his acts of clemency until near the end of his time in the White House. Biden announced Dec. 12 that he would grant pardons to 39 ...