Psalm 23, opening with thanks for a staff member protected in a car accident two days earlier — the shepherd who is present in the valley.
Acts 14, and a lesson in what to do when you get stoned: get up and go back to work the next day.
1 Peter 1:15-23, from a preacher who reduces the morning to two Hebrew words — Yare Yahweh, our God is awesome.
Acts 14:1-7. There is always a plot afoot — the enemy moves whenever God's work does, and Paul keeps going anyway.
Acts 13 and the turn to the Gentiles: rejected in the synagogue, Paul and Barnabas shake the dust from their feet and the word spreads through the whole region.
The slave girl in Acts 16 whose fortune-telling made money for her owners, freed by Paul — and the trouble that freedom caused.