Category: Acts for a 21st c. Church
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Mission to Macedonia with more exhortation
Now after the uproar had ceased, Paul having summoned and exhorted the disciples, said farewell and left to go to Macedonia. Acts of the Apostles 20:1 Legacy Standard Bible Paul’s mission returns to Macedonia When we last left Paul in Ephesus the Apostle had been acquitted of causing a riot and was preparing to sail back to familiar destination of his second mission. Today…
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RIOTING TODAY! – Testimony from many stakeholders
RIOT TODAY IN EPHESUS! – READ all about it. The NEWS headline could have been from TODAY! But first we return to this riot mentioned in our last edition and Luke’s account of Acts 19. The city was filled with the uproar, and the crowd rushed to the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and…
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and fear fell upon them all – Phobias from the enemy
FEAR descends upon us without warning when we least expect it. This is what has just happened in places distant from our secure homes and times more near these last days. Acts of the Apostles 19: TODAY we return to Ephesus in the first century of our Lord and then quickly jump forward to fearful…
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Evil spirits, exorcism, possession of Power
ACTS 19: ..and the evil spirits went out of them. Acts of the Apostles 19:12c KJV Acts of God, evil spirits and exorcists In his account of Paul’s third missionary journey the physician Luke now records signs YOU may find hard to believe. DO YOU BELIEVE THIS, 21st Century believer in the Lord Jesus Christ?…
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Lectures in the School of the Master
Acts 19: Paul Teaching in Ephesus Two Schools of Thought in Ephesus The School of Our Master the Lord Jesus Christ is led by the lecturer Paul; known as the Apostle to the Gentiles and formerly known as Saul of Tarsus. Picture this setting & scene in either the 1st century A.D. where it took…
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Powerful Preaching to powerless Christians
Preaching the Lord Jesus What was the difference in the preaching of Apollos and Paul? In Acts of the Apostles 19 Luke gives it to us straight. Paul discovers some disciples who have already heard the powerful preaching of Apollos. Let’s take a look at Luke’s account translated authoritatively in the King James Version: And…
