Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I ran into an interesting new word yesterday: “oubliette” (oo-blee’-et) It comes from Latin through the French language. It is a dungeon, an underground prison chamber, which is accessed through a trap door in the ceiling. Some of these oubliettes were at...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
After supper one night, two brothers when out to play. They were told to come in when the sun went down. After some time, the littlest boy said, “Oh, oh, the sun is almost down. We better get inside.” But the older, more sophomoric little boy replied,...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
These verses bring me to a subject that I’d rather not preach if I could avoid it. The reason is not because I know that I’ll offend people and drive them away. I’d rather not preach this message because the theme is one that I feel that I don’t understand very well....
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Some of you have seen these before, so you know what I’m talking about. There are several internet sites which give you access to satellite photos of the United States. You can put your curser on a spot and ask for a photo, and it will give it to you. Then you can...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I think that I have told you before that Miss Denny was one of my two favorite high school teachers, Although I doubt that we could ever have been friends, even if there hadn’t been that teacher/pupil relationship and that she was old. There were just too many...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
One of the key ingredients in winning the European campaign of World War II, was the allied ability to break the German “enigma” code. Early in the war the Nazis devised a code which enabled their ships and submarines to communicate with Berlin without the...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I can’t tell you what the numbers are, but every Sunday there are ministers of the gospel who are preaching the last sermon in that pulpit. Many of those men are guests in that particular church, and their meetings are coming to a close. Some of them will never be...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I suppose that as far as spouses go, husbands are not as faithful as wives in telling the other about their love. I usually tell Judy that I love her several times a day, but I confess that 95% of the time it comes after she has first told me that she loves me. On the...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I discovered something on Friday which I had never noticed before. The three words “the church of ….” are found fourteen times in the text of the New Testament. There are another two occasions when we find those words in the postscript of Paul’s...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I expect that we’ll wind-down our study of this chapter on the weekend. When we started, I really didn’t expect this to develop into 20 messages. But the fact is, it seems that every chapter produces more messages than the previous chapter. And now I don’t know if...
