Journeys of Paul

I was in church, standing there singing my heart out in praise to Jesus along with everyone else  …  and I thought, “You know, we are really no different from the brand-new Christians at the church in Thessalonica.”…

Paul, Silas and Timothy arrived in Thessalonica, after having just been beaten and imprisoned in Phillip for casting a demonic spirit out of a fortune-telling slave girl.   God showed up, shook Phillipi with an earthquake, opened the prison…

Imagine you are a brand-new Christian in Thessalonica.   Passions are running high in your city.   Think back to how passions ran high during covid.   If a business owner did not comply with covid guidelines their business license could…

I just learned this week that Paul had two ministry companions accompanying him on the journey to Rome:  Luke and Aristarchus.   I had never seen this before!   In the back of my mind, I had known that Luke…

“Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.  There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla  …  Paul went to see them, and because he was…

I have been thinking about Paul’s shipwreck on the island of Malta.    I have never been to Malta.   I do not know anything about what Malta is like.   So, I will use these photos of the island of…

I just learned something new in my Bible reading that I never saw before!  (The Bible is so awesome like that  …  no matter how many times you read it there is always something new and fresh that…

One of the things I was looking forward to the most about our Journeys of Paul cruise this past summer was getting to see what Paul’s voyage across the Mediterranean would have looked like.   I’ve always wondered what…

I apologize for the 2-month lapse in blog posts.   I have been swamped with caring for aging parents.   To be honest, I am writing this in November.   If you will forgive me for back-dating the blog posts, I…