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Back to SearchActs 27:1-20: Into the Storm
Paul sails for Rome in chains. The timing couldn’t be worse: it’s in the autumn of the year when the seas are treacherous. Paul warns the centurion t…
1 day, 1 hour ago
Acts 26:1-32: “Do You Think You Can Persuade Me?”
Paul gets one more hearing, this time before a king who actually knows the Scriptures, and he makes the most of it. He lays out his old life as a per…
2 days, 1 hour ago
Acts 25:1-27: “I Appeal to Caesar!”
Paul has now been in custody for two years, shuffled between governors who would rather make the problem disappear than deal with it. When Festus tri…
5 days, 1 hour ago
Acts 24:1-27: Prosecution and Procrastination
The Jews' hired lawyer lays out their case against Paul and he responds, not with apologies, defensiveness, or counterattacks, but with a confession …
6 days, 1 hour ago
Acts 22:30-23:35: Take Courage in the Dark
One sentence about the resurrection turns Israel's high court into a shouting match, and by nightfall Paul is alone in a cell with forty men swearing…
1 week ago
Acts 21:37-22:29: Telling the Story
Standing on the barracks steps with an angry crowd below him, Paul does something disarming: he tells his story. He was once the most zealous opponen…
1 week, 1 day ago
Acts 21:1-36: Paul! Don’t Go!
Friends weep; a prophet ties his own hands with Paul's belt to warn him of an upcoming arrest; and even Luke and others urge the Apostle to not go, a…
1 week, 2 days ago
Acts 20:1-38: The Long Goodbye at Miletus
Gathered with the believers on the first day of the week, and leaving the next morning, Paul preaches late into the night. A young man named Eutychus…
1 week, 5 days ago
Acts 19:21-41: A Riot Over the Bottom Line
Money sets off the riot in Ephesus, when a silversmith realizes the gospel is bad for the idol business. He dresses up his profit motive in religious…
1 week, 6 days ago
Acts 19:1-20: Throwing the Counterfeit on the Fire
New believers in Ephesus do something striking: they haul their expensive books of magic into the open and burn them, torching a small fortune in fro…
2 weeks ago