It’s really no different
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.”…
A picture is worth a thousand words!
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…
How??
I ended the last blog post pondering this question: “Does the power of the Holy Spirit flow through our life, enabling us to have great faith??” (The last blog post discussed how the brand-new Christians in Thessalonica had…
Brand-new Christians in Thessalonica
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…
Preaching and making tents in Thessalonica
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 – Making tents for a living
“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…
Very foolish decisions … which result in painful consequences
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…
God doesn’t leave us abandoned
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…
Caught in a storm!
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…
Let it drain away
My pastor made a statement recently which was incredibly powerful and profound: “You can either have your bitterness or your grandchildren, but you can’t have both.” He was preaching on forgiveness. He had not started his sermon intending…