Day 27, Acts 27

[featured-img] Acts 27:12, 37 “The majority decided we should sail on. … Altogether there were 276 of us on board.” There are a number of great Aha!’s in this chapter and it was hard to pick just one. For instance, the majority vote that resulted in a sinking ship. From cover to cover in the […]Read more »

Day 26, Acts 26

Acts 26:28 “Then Agrippa said to Paul, ‘Do you think in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?’” 1n 1986 I started a church in Dothan, Alabama by knocking on doors and asking, “If you died tonight do you know for sure you’d go to heaven?” I was pretty successful […]Read more »

Day 25, Acts 25

Acts 25 is another chapter of mostly narration about Paul’s arrest, trial, and transfer to Rome. As I pondered the narrative, it dawned on me there’s an important lesson we as the church need to learn here: It is far too easy for those opposed to changes in the “status quo” to waylay the church […]Read more »

Day 24, Acts 24

Acts 24:14 “I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way.” I’ve long wished we could drop the term “Christianity” – which implies a “belief” in Christ – and return to the term the early church used: “The Way.” Although John 3:16, the most quoted verse in the Bible, says that […]Read more »

Day 23, Acts 23

This is one of those chapters that has a lot of narrative, but not a lot of content for the sake of the heart. Paul’s been taken into protective custody because the conservative Jews want him to shut up and go away – and are willing to kill him in not. So he was taken […]Read more »