Tag: Jesus

  • 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
  • The Golden Rule

    Read: Luke 10:24-26 (Don’t miss the question which sets the stage of this most famous parable of Jesus.) Parable of the GOOD Samaritan A Democrat, a Republic and an Indian were going down from Washington to.. NO, that’s not it. An evangelical christian, a jew and an Indian were going down from the Capitol to..…

    Why would they call a hospital "Good Samaritan?"