In Acts 16 two Preachers (namely Paul and Silas) have been arrested, yet falsely so. In the process they were beaten (with "many stripes"), their clothes having been ripped off their bodies! Then the men were "cast" (in Greek "ballo," meaning … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF ACTS … ONE CHAPTER, TWO CONVERSIONS!
To use our old-fashioned Bible terminology, Acts chapter 16 presents us with the stories of two people being "saved." Let me show you want I mean. First, as Paul and Silas and Timothy and even Luke minister (preaching the Word) unto the Lord in … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF ACTS … PIVOTAL PRONOUNS!
Paul and his company are on the second of his several missionary tours, journeys … preaching God's Word. He had originally intended to revisit the Churches established during his first evangelistic trip, Acts 15:36 … "Let us go again and visit our … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF ACTS … AND “PERSONALITY”
On that now famous "First Missionary Journey" Paul had a young man accompany his team … John Mark by name … only to be disappointed when his youthful student "quit" mid trip! (Acts 13:13 … "Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF ACTS … THE COUNCIL AT JERUSALEM
About mid-book … in chapter 15 of 28 total chapters … Acts, the New Testament's little Volume on Church History, records an event that changes the course of the whole Christian Movement. In its beginning, the Church (using Jesus' Words, "My … [Continue reading]
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