Acts 19 - Part b
Friday, December 19th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »Riot in Ephesus In the second half of Acts 19, Paul had laid out plans to travel to Macedonia, but before he was able to leave some idol makers stirred the whole city up in a chaotic riot. A man named ...
Acts 19 - Part a
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »All of Ephesus Hears the Gospel In Acts chapter 19 Paul travels to Ephesus and stays, teaching about Jesus Christ for 2 years. In Ephesus, Paul found some more believers who, like Appollos from chapeter 18, did not know of the ...
Acts 18
Sunday, November 16th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »Paul Leads the Church in Corinth In Acts 18 we follow Paul to the city of Corinth. In verses 1 through 4 Paul meets up with a Jewish couple who had come from Rome. There names were Aquila and Priscilla. Paul lived ...
Acts 17 - Part b
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »The Religious Athenians and Their Idols In the second half of Acts 17 we see Paul's distress over the people of Athens because of their many idols and worship of false gods. So he began to reason in the synagogue and marketplace each ...
Acts 17 - Part a
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »History Repeats Itself In Acts 17 we see Paul and company continue on their missionary journey throughout the Roman empire. In each place they stop, they simply tell the people that God had sent His Son Jesus in order that they might ...
Acts 16 - Part b
Sunday, September 14th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »Trouble in Macedonia In the second half of Acts 16 we find Paul and company being harassed by a demon possessed slave girl. Verses 16-18: Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who ...
Acts 16 - Part a
Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »Strengthening the Churches & Taking the Gospel to Macedonia In Acts Chapter 16 Paul has parted ways with Barnabas over a personal dispute. Silas, Timothy, and Luke (notice the text is now in the first person since Acts was written by Luke) join ...
Acts 15
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »Salvation Through Jesus & the Law? In Acts Chapter 15 we read of a dispute in the early Christian church that had to do with which of the Old Testament Laws were to be kept by Gentile believers. The debate starts ...
Acts 14
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »The Gospel Preached in Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe In Acts Chapter 14, Paul and Barnabas continue their missionary journey and travel to three more cities: Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe.
Acts 13 - Part b
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »Paul and Barnabas in Pisidian Antioch In the last half of Acts 13 Paul and company continue on their missionary journey to the city of Psidian Antioch. They go to the synagogue on the Sabbath and listen to the readings of ...