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God's Words from the Past Help Us Figure Out Our Future
2023-03-02 11:33 Acts 15:12-21. After Peter speaks to the assembled apostles and elders, arguing that they should not impose circumcision on the Gentiles, Barnabas and Paul next address the assembly, which is listenin...
God Let's Us Know When He's Changing the Rules
2023-03-01 12:23 Acts 15:6-11. As the apostles and elders are considering the circumcision question, Peter rises and speaks. He says they know that God chose him to bring the Gospel to the Gentiles, and they know that...
How to Debate and Discern (and Why Have We Forgotten This?)
2023-02-28 14:34 Acts 14:24-15:25. Paul and Barnabas return to Antioch, passing through Pisidia, Pamphylia, and Perga, and preaching in every place they go. At Antioch, where they had first been commissioned, they gat...
Paul Gets Knocked Down, But He Gets Up Again
2023-02-27 07:40 Acts 14:19-23. The Jews from Antioch and Iconium catch up with Paul and Barnabas in Lystra. They persuade the people against Paul and Barnabas and they stone Paul. Presuming him dead, they drag him ou...
Convincing the "Otherwise" Religious
2023-02-25 13:46 Acts 14:8-18. In Lystra, Paul cures a man who had been crippled since birth simply by seeing that he had faith and saying to him "Stand upright on your feet." The people are so amazed, they are convin...
Keep Your Wits About You as You Evangelize!
2023-02-24 08:18 Acts 14:1-7. Having left Antioch in Pasidia for Iconium, Paul and Barnabas repeat their game plan. They go to the synagogue in Iconium and speak so well that a great number of both Jews and Greeks com...
The Jews in Antioch Change Their Minds
2023-02-22 11:32 Acts 13:42-52. The people follow Paul and Barnabas from the synagogue, begging Paul to preach again on the next Sabbath. On that day, almost the whole town comes to the synagogue to hear Paul preach, ...
The Limits of Mosaic Law
2023-02-21 10:16 Acts 13:33-41. Paul concludes his testimony to the Jews in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia by quoting from the psalms and prophets to further identify Jesus and to warn against disbelief. With reg...
Blindly Fulfilling Prophecies
2023-02-20 07:40 Acts 13:26-33. Paul continues testifying to the assembly in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia. Having just finished a short Jewish history, ending by saying that Jesus is the promised Savior, Paul g...
Remember What God Has Promised
2023-02-19 17:09 Acts 13:17-25. Paul begins his testimony in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia by giving a very brief summary of Jewish history leading up to Jesus' arrival. He reminds the assembled Jews that Go...