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 »

Day 22, Acts 22

Acts 22:15 “You will his [Jesus] witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.” The “E” word. Evangelism. It’s the most dreaded and most misunderstood word in the Christian vocabulary. I’m pretty sure that when most Christians hear it, they immediately conjure up images of street preachers, tract/pamphlet distribution, and door-to-door “Do […]Read more »