Category: Acts for a 21st c. Church
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Signs of Release from the Bondage of Culture
The Bondage of Culture and Corruption .. that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. This is only reference to ‘bondage’ in the English Standard Bible — BONDAGE is not a very popular word of cultural correctness — and “bondage…
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The Keeper of the Philippian Prison
What is your experience as the keeper of something important? Have you ever been the one of importance kept safe in some place? (Were YOU ever the prisoner OR a jailer guard charged as the keeper a prisoner for justice?) Prison and Prisoners IF the only light you ever see seeped filtered though a hole…
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A cultural clash at the Agora in Roman Philippi
a Roman Government of Greek Culture The Roman-built forum in Philippi with its bustling traditional Greek agora resembled the forum in Rome (cover-photo remains of the Roman forum pillars shows some of the grandeur of these most-public areas of the Empires greatest cities. Similar-sized pillars in the foreground of the Philippi Forum and agora (to…
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A Python of Prophesy Stalking Paul in Philippi
Who is this soothsaying python of Philippi? Luke mentions this woman in Acts 16 who follows Paul, Silas and Timothy around as they frequent a place of prayer down by the river. She may not have had such a nickname but her presence foretells the inevitable upcoming skirmishes between good and evil in Europe. Acts…
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Lydia a Worshipper Down By The River
Lydia, a worshiper of God A brief outline of the opening of Europe to the Gospel of Jesus Christ beginning with the baptism of Lydia, a Jewish woman near a city with with few Jews. I’ll take you back to Philippi, Macedonia (geographically part of Greece) in the 1st c. superpower Empire of Rome and…
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Come over to Macedonia and Help us
2 Routes from Mysia to Macedonia Where have Paul, Silas and Timothy been? Traveling with the Gospel through several towns in the central plain of Turkiye, an area unfamiliar to most Europeans (and distant from US). These apostles could have continued from Derbe as before as they had journeyed through SYRIA & CILICIA. Acts 16:…
