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 ...
Acts 13 - Part a
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »Barnabas and Saul in Cyprus In the 13th Chapter of Acts, we begin to follow Barnabus and Saul on their first missionary journey. As you know from Chapter 11, Barnabas and Saul had spent the last year in Antioch leading the ...
Acts 12
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »More Christian Persecution In Acts Chapter 12 we see the continuing persecution of Christians, driven largely by the jealousy and self-righteousness of the Jews.