Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I thought about looking at this passage through a mere study of Barjesus or Sergius Paulus, But as I meditated on it, I realized that this is a actually a synopsis of the world in general. Here we are reading about Cyprus in the 1st century AD, but this could be...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
The English language contains some really funny quirks. One of the strangest is the way that one word may have some really different meanings. You’d think that we’d be able to think of a different word for every different thing and action in the world, but no, the...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I receive three religious periodicals. I have subscribed to two of them and one is sent free. One comes every month and the other two are published four times a year. I read about half the articles, totally rejecting about a third of them, and being blessed by 10...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
The title to last week’s message was “Cyprus, the World.” Not only did I want to preach the gospel once again, But I wanted to show you that the people & events of these 9 verses are contemporary & universal. Sergius Paulus is a picture of an...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
A study like this gives us the opportunity to consider all kinds of doctrines. Sometimes we are forced to examine things that we haven’t looked at before, like fasting. And like our subject tonight, sometimes we have the opportunity to think about doctrines that we...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
It’s been hard for me to adjust, but 36 hours ago Judy and I were in Paradise – on Vancouver Island. About 10 a.m. we drove onto a BC ferry, sailed across to Tsawwassen and started south toward Seattle. During the drive down to Highway 405, we passed & were passed...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
In writing to the Corinthians, Paul felt forced to compare himself with some other servants of the Lord. He said, “Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
When Paul preached this sermon, he was in Antioch of Pisidia, in what is now the heart of Turkey. There are a couple of things that are quite ironic about that fact: First, we are talking about Turkey, which according to the CIA web-site is 99.8% Muslim today. The...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
In a sense I started this message last Sunday night. As I said then, Paul was in the process of presenting Christ to a group of Jews in Antioch, Turkey. We saw that he was making a logical progression through history, starting with God’s election of Israel. The last...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
Earlier this week I read a pretty good article about the art of preaching. One of the things that it said was that preaching is not the purpose of preaching. Gospel preaching cannot accomplish anything in and of itself. Even when everything declared during the course...
