Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
How much do you know about Buddhism? Most Biblical Christians know next to nothing about Buddhism. For example, most think that it was started by a man named Buddha. Actually, “Buddha” is not a name, but a title, just as “Christ” is a title....
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
There are millions of semi-Christians and pseudo-Christians who think of God as a kind-heart philanthropist. They picture the Lord as a Being full of love and good wishes for all His creatures, but Who is, unfortunately, incapable of really taking good care of them....
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
Fictional literature abounds with stories about people being mistaken for other people. Sometimes the hero, or villain, chooses to be mistaken for someone else, as in “A Tale of Two Cities.” But then, in what are usually funnier stories, there are...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
In the late 1950’s the U.S.S.R. jumped into space, and the Americans knew that they would have to keep up. President Kenney made his promise; the NACA became NASA, and work began toward putting an American on the moon. First came the Mercury project, which...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
Our title this morning is an old proverb: “All roads lead to Rome.” It’s a proverb which means that there are certain things at the center of other things, and eventually everything meets at that center point – that loci. It may only be a proverb today,...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
I don’t particularly like this kind of lesson for a Sunday night service, but I couldn’t really think of any way to avoid it in this case. Tonight we have little more than a geographical background lesson as the Book of Acts winds down. Although I don’t believe that...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
It was obviously the Lord’s will that Paul travel to Rome. Not only had the Lord made the promise that he would reach Rome, but the Lord miraculously maintained His providential care. (Is that a redundant statement?) So, as we have seen, Paul, Luke and...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
Paul, the missionary, had a pattern which he tried to follow whenever he entered a new city. The first thing that he would do was to make contact with the Jews of that community. Sometimes it was a thriving synagogue. He would respectfully sit in one of the services...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
As I tried to point out this morning, I don’t think that there were many Jews in Rome when Paul arrived. And for that matter there probably were not many Christians either, even though in a few months or a couple of years they would be accused of burning down a large...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
One night during the 2nd year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, had very disturbing dream. It wasn’t the dream that so many people have – with the feeling of falling, or hovering outside their body. It wasn’t the dream of going to church, work or school...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
As I’ve said, I don’t think that there were many Jews in Rome when Paul was there. Only 12 or 15 years had passed since Claudius had commanded that all Jews leave the city. We don’t know when that law was rescinded, but it was probably after the beginning of...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
As I was reading through these verses again the other day, a thought occurred to me that I don’t think that I had ever considered before. It was not a special revelation from God, at least I don’t think so. It was not some sort of epiphany; it was just a...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
On a day mutually agreed upon by Paul and some of the Jewish leaders of Rome, a contingent of Israel gathered at Paul’s rented lodging. From morning until evening the Apostle preached and discussed the Scriptures with those people. As most preachers can, by...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
As I said this morning, while his visitors were leaving, Paul referred to a statement from Isaiah 6. I also said, that this is an oft quoted but somewhat difficult scripture. It seems that each time that it comes up it’s in a slightly different context. And in...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
Monday night I turned on the Discovery Channel and caught the end of a very interesting program. It was about a physical condition called “Gigantism.” Perhaps you know of families which carry a gene which makes them relatively tall. These people may...
