Tag: Malta

  • Acts 28 – Malta – Not nearly to Rome

    Acts of the Apostles 28: Once safely ashore, we then learned that the island was called Malta. Two hundred seventy-six men in the hand of God tossed about in an autumn storm of the Mediterranean Sea survive —  some on planks and some on debris from the ship on a remote beach of Malta —…

    Malta - Earth view of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea
  • Tossed About in a Sinking Ship

    How will you deal with the demise of your own failing flesh aboard the sinking ship of this brief life? Acts of the Apostles 27 Sailing so slowly into a billowing whirlwind of destruction. That’s how it must have felt for the Roman Centurion Julian, various guards and now others aboard a large Greek merchant…

    But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow jammed fast and remained immovable, while the stern began to break up by the pounding of the waves. Acts 27:41 CSB rendering of shipwreck of the Apostle Paul