I left you yesterday with Paul and Silas, traveling at night, having rushed out of Thessalonica, after a riot! (Acts 17:10) Dr. Luke reports they followed the well-traveled road south to the town of Berea, about 45 miles southwest. Historical records tell us this and other well-traveled Roman roads like it were patrolled by soldiers and had waystations […]
Have you wrestled, maybe even struggled with this question “WHY does God allow painful problems into the lives of God’s people, who are doing the best they can to faithfully honor God and follow His leading in their lives”? That question is fair, legitimate and has been faced by Billions of Christians since the days […]
Over the past few days, we’ve been traveling with the apostle Paul, Silas, Timothy and Dr. Luke on what we can call Paul’s SECOND missionary journey. This journey began in Syrian Antioch with only Paul and Silas. Their initial objective was revisiting the places Paul and Barnabas had first visited perhaps 5 years earlier. Those places included Derbe […]
Do you like stories which have ‘happy endings’? Sadly, in both the artificial world of entertainment but also the world of reality, ‘happy ending’ stories are rare in our modern world, no matter where you live in the world. Do you agree? But today I’m happy to invite you into the happy ending of a story […]
“Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open and all the prisoner’s chains came loose.” (Acts 16:26) I presume that means the anchors in the dungeon walls, to which the prisoner chains were attached, broke free from the walls, […]
What has been the most direct and forceful opposition YOU have ever faced to Christianity, especially YOUR relationship with Jesus and your conviction the Bible is God’s truth for our world? Pause and think about that for a few seconds. Let’s join the apostle Paul, Silas, Timothy and Dr. Luke as they are spending their first […]
How do we recognize what I call ‘the fingerprint of God’ in our world? By that I mean something occurs which is ONLY explainable as God intervened miraculously in a situation or a human life or a relationship or what some might call a natural disaster. (Click here to see full text, images and links) Pastor Doug Anderson […]
Time after time they had encountered unexpected God created ‘roadblocks’ which forced them to take detours to other places, eventually ending up in Troas. Pause. How do you and I handle the frustration of ‘roadblocks’ and ‘detours’ as we rush through our busy days? How often do we consider it might actually be GOD steering our course […]
This is a very historic weekend for America and our world, isn’t it? July 4th has long been celebrated as America’s Independence Day and this weekend marks 250 years. Regardless of what actually took place on the 4th of July in 1776, anywhere in those Colonies or England, one overarching question demands a response: WHAT IF the fight for […]
Acts 15:36. “Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, ‘Let’s go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.” (Click here to see full text, images and links) Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the […]
