We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land. When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene. We set sail from there, [...]
“We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days. On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people, and because he intended to leave the [...]
“As soon as the uproar ended, Paul gathered the disciples together, encouraged them once more, said farewell, and left on foot. He decided to pass through Macedonia, encouraging believers wherever he found them, and cam to Greece. He spent three months there, and then planned to set sail oce again for Syria. But he learned [...]
We’ve come to the end of the nineteenth chapter. Now you have to remember that the creation of “chapters and verse” came about in the year 1228 by a British clergyman, Stephen Langton. The original text didn’t have any divisions, they were added much later to make it easier to study. As a result the [...]
In our last couple of posts we were watching a mob grow as some guy named Demetrius was egging them on, saying that Paul and company were hurting his business (which was his real concern) but since that didn’t mean anything to the crowd, he switched to saying they would also damage the temple of [...]
If you remember out last couple of posts, some guy named, Demetrius, who appeared to be the head of the United Idol Makers Union (UIMU), was complaining that “those Christians,” but more specifically Paul, were ruining their business. They made miniature replicas of their goddess Artemis: “This character Paul has persuaded and turned away a [...]
In our last reading, Paul was telling the church in Corinth that he was going to come visit them and was asking them to take a collection to help the believers in Jerusalem. He also reminds these Corinthians, “But I will come to you after I have gone through Macedonia – for I will be [...]
I ended my last post by describing a Christian by being completely fearless, continually cheerful, and constantly in trouble. I can’t think of anything that would describe the Apostle Paul better. He was—by faith, not by nature—completely fearless, continually cheerful, and certainly constantly in trouble. That should be an inherent quality of every Christian life. [...]
In out last post we saw that an actual revival began in Ephesus. The Holy Spirit began to move on folks who had been involved in various sins and the occult and they were so impacted by His work they threw their books and paraphernalia into a fire and had a great bonfire. Then the [...]
The Book of Acts Chapter 20: (pt 3 of 15)
Here’s something interesting about Luke’s account of Paul’s Sunday meeting with the saints in Troas: As I just mentioned, the miracle of resuscitating Eutychus is described in a matter of fact way. The young man dropped from a window and Paul brought him back to life. Ho-Hum. There was absolutely no journalistic sensationalism here. The [...]
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