Tag: apostles

  • What is the Gospel? What are the Gospels?

    Ask five Christians, What is the Gospel? And you may hear THREE different answers, see an empty puzzled look and perhaps hear an honest, “I don’t really know; how do you define the gospel?” Go ahead: EMAIL ME your definition BEFORE you read the following OR add your definitive COMMENT at the bottom of this…

    child reading Holy Bible - God's Personal Love
  • Sailing Home on the Aegean

    And when they had come to him, he said to them,“You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time, serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials.. Acts of the Apostles 20:18-19a LSB – The Apostle Paul bidding farewell…

    Paul's 3rd missionary journey - sailing home - a map from Aegean ports toward Tyre
  • Three Years in Ephesus with Tears

    Paul has just sent for the Ephesian Elders and is about to address them as at the conclusion of his third missionary journey as the Apostle departs for Jerusalem. Serving the Lord with humility and tears The *apostles’ tearful departure from Ephesus – Let us recall so many close relationships of those brothers and sisters…

    Miletus - ruins of the Roman agora where Paul likely would have met the Ephesian elders as the Apostle returned to Jerusalem