“When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could. So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted [...]
Obvioulsy, the sailors knew that the passengers would not allow them to take the lifeboat in order to save themselves, that is why they pretended to be putting out anchors from the bow of the ship. Now under normal circumstances, these sailors would have saved themselves and condemned the passengers to death. However, this time [...]
“When the fourteenth night had come, while we [Luke speaking here] were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land. They took soundings and found the water was twenty fathoms deep; when they had sailed a little farther they took soundings again and found it was fifteen [...]
Since many of them had no desire to eat, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not put out to sea from Crete, thus avoiding this damage and loss. And now I advise you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life [...]
Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island. When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. As we ran under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty [...]
Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast was already over, Paul advised them, “Men, I can see the voyage is going to end in disaster and great loss not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.” But the centurion was more convinced by [...]
When it was decided we would sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. We went on board a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to various ports along the coast of the province of Asia and put out to sea, [...]
When I was a kid, there were many things I thought I would be. I studied to be an Astronomer; a Writer; a Real-Estate Tycoon . . . but in High School I began to see myself as a Pastor. It began in 8th grade when I was at a church camp and accepted the [...]
As we carry on from an earthly perspective, wondering, pondering things I do not even begin to understand such as Nephilim in Genesis and the Relationship to now, I begin to realize how incredibly lacking I am in the overall perspective such as Plasma particles, dimensions and it goes on and on. I praise God [...]
The Book of Acts: Chapter 27 (pt 9 of 11)
We are almost to the end of this chapter, and I love it when we reach this point. You see, I love preparing for these studies—and putting down the things I have learned and observed from from the text. However, when I get to the end of a chapter I re-read everything I put down [...]
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