Acts 9:1-19 When Saul set out from Jerusalem to Damascus, he had no idea his life would be turned upside down, shaken and reordered. Saul was a Pharisee who was zealous in his protection of Torah, the law of God, that was being rejected by the Jews who followed Jesus. He had stood as witness…
Acts 7:51-8:1 Over the past seven and a half years, I have become a huge fan of Paul. When I was a new Christian and we were asked one day in a small group who we most wanted to talk to when we arrived in heaven, I said Peter. If you ask me that question…
Acts 6:15-8:1 When I was in the sixth grade, about 11 years old, I was standing in line to go into Mrs. Greenleaf’s class. A third grade student came to give a message to her and as he passed us I told him, “Be careful, she’s in a bad mood this morning.” I meant it…
Acts 6:8-15 If you have a choice of two books to read, one titled, How to Live and the other How to Die, which would you pick up? When I googled “how to live” and “how to die” there were more than five times as many entries for how to live than for how to…
Acts 6:1-7 What happens if you build a house and then do nothing to it? In just ten or twenty years the house will be a wreck. The lawn will have become a little forest. Water pipes will have burst and the leaking water will have destroyed the floors. Mold and other plant life will…