Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
I tease my wife periodically about the many superficial differences that there are between us. I tell her that it’s amazing that we’ve been so happily married for 35 years. (If she tells you that it’s NOT periodic, don’t believe her.) Let me give you an example, Judy...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
I always enjoy reading what Matthew Henry says about the scriptures, but I don’t do it as much as I should. I have so many commentaries that I often times don’t read all of them. And Matthew Henry does not get into the details of the scripture text, defining words and...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
I am planning on Wednesday to look at the person of Apollos. He is one of those incidental Bible characters with an intriguing story to tell. Unfortunately there is not a lot that we know about him. But one thing that we do know is that he was able to MIGHTILY...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
Last week Judy and I spent a few moments with a 30-year-old lady whom we first knew when she was barely able to walk. We recognized her immediately, after not seeing each other for 14 years or more. She is as beautiful and recognizable a young lady as she was when she...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
I would like to pick up a couple of Biblical themes from Acts 18 before we move on. I thought seriously about a message on “the way of God” – verse 26, but I preached on that theme a year ago, when we first came to it in Acts 9, so we’ll skip it this time....
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
Baptist churches have, for about 2,000 years, made use of the “church letter.” I have two little books here: “A Baptist Church Manual” by J. M. Pendleton, And “The New Directory for Baptist Churches” by Edward Hiscox. Pendleton was...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
In these two verses, we begin to see Paul’s Third Missionary Journey. So I thought that it might be a good time to review his first two evangelistic trips. And then we’ll close with a dozen or so general observations. Ideally, you should be able to anticipate just...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
There was a little, three-year-old boy who had been sick for a week with a cold and a cough. The cough was persistent and little guy was getting obviously weaker, so his mother took him to the doctor. The little fella was brought into a strange examining room, filled...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
We’ve used a number of different teaching and preaching styles thus far in our studies in Acts. We’ve had three-point gospel sermons and five-point sermons on various aspects on Christian living We’ve had Biblical expositions. We’ve had historical and geographical...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
If we can use the length of time that Paul spent in various cities as a judge of the importance the mission work there, then Ephesus was one of the most important places of his entire ministry. At least as far as what took place in his three missionary journeys, Paul...
