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The Biggest of Tents
2023-03-17 10:32 Acts 18:1-4. Paul leaves Athens for Corinth and finds a Jew named Aquila and his wife Priscilla there. Aquila and Priscilla have recently fled to Corinth from Italy because Claudius had ordered all th...
Ignorance of the Law is No Longer an Excuse
2023-03-16 12:29 Acts 17:22-34. Having been brought by skeptical and curious philosophers to the Areopagus, Paul speaks to the Athenians of God and salvation. He begins by noting that Athens seems a very religious cit...
Babbling in Athens (and Elsewhere)
2023-03-15 11:12 Acts 17:16-21. While Paul is waiting in Athens for Silas and Timothy to join him, he notices that the city is filled with idols, so he begins preaching on his own there. He argues in the synagogues wi...
We're Part of the Greatest Mystery
2023-03-14 10:27 Acts 17:10-15. Knowing that the Jews in Thessalonica are after Paul and his companions, the brethren there send them away in the night to Beroea. On arriving there, Paul and the others go to the synag...
Are We Ready to Have Our World Turned Upside Down?
2023-03-13 08:39 Acts 17:1-9. After traveling through several other cities, Paul, Silas, and the others arrive in Thessalonica. Paul, as is his custom, goes right to the synagogue and spends three weeks arguing and pr...
When and Why to Wait for an Apology
2023-03-11 11:10 Acts 16:35-40. The day after Paul and Silas spent the night converting and dining with their jailer, the magistrates of the city send word that they are to be released. The jailer tells them to go in ...
Was That Earthquake for Me?
2023-03-10 14:21 Acts 16:25-34. Paul and Silas are in prison, shackled, and are praying and singing as all the other prisoners listen to them. In the night there is a great earthquake that shakes the prison, opening t...
Evangelization Threatens Power Structures
2023-03-09 10:10 Acts 16:16-24. A slave girl possessed by a spirit of divination begins following Paul and his companions around Philippi crying "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the wa...
Where to Go to Meet Women
2023-03-08 10:09 Acts 16:11-15. Paul and his companions (now including Luke!) set sail from Troas, making stops in various cities until they reach Philippi, the leading city in that district of Macedonia, and a Roman ...
Hearing God's Voice and Being Moved by the Spirit
2023-03-06 08:19 Acts 16:6-10. Paul and Timothy are on their evangelical travels, but have been "forbidden by the Holy Spirit to spread the word in Asia." They attempt to go into Bithynia "but the Spirit of Jesus did ...