Acts 21
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »Warnings of Persecution In Jerusalem Acts chapter 21 quickly follows Paul on his journey back to Jerusalem. On his way back Paul and his group say with a variety of past friends that they had made during their missionary journeys. Paul ...
Acts 20
Saturday, January 17th, 2009 Posted in Acts, Salvation is Jesus | No Comments »A Final Farewell Acts Chapter 20 briefly describes Paul's travels to Macedonia then to Greece, and in Troas, Paul raised a man from the dead, who had fallen from a three story building (verses 7-12). Next Paul feels compelled to go ...
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 ...