Tag: Jesus

  • No Longer Paralyzed: Walking in Lydda

    Paralyzed until Peter’s missionary journey What must it be like to be paralyzed, either from birth or as the result of a traumatic impact of this fragile flesh and bones at any time? We have seen paralyzed men many times in Scripture. And Simon Peter had met paralyzed or lame men at various times in…

    sick laid at Peter's feet in Jerusalem to be healed by falling in his shadow
  • Who is this Saul, Apostle to the Gentiles?

    “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” Saul: a Jew of Some Reputation We are familiar with Saul the first King of Israel, ultimately killed in battle then replaced by David. – שָׁאוּל His Hebrew name šā’ûl means ‘desired,‘ however Saul of Tarsus was not the ‘hebrew of hebrews’ that any follower of The Way…

  • Damascus Road: Witness into all the World

    Witness from Jerusalem to Damascus Of all places the Apostles would not have ever thought the risen Christ would anoint yet another Apostle, a road to Damascus likely would have been the last place to come to mind. Jesus had led them to places beyond Galilee (now formally a part of Syria under the administration…

    Syria Cilicia Phoenice with Damascus as a road of witness into all the Roman world of the AD first century, including Cypress home to Barnabas son of encouragement to Paul