Time is moving on in the life of the apostle Paul. In my last post we saw him returning to his hometown of Tarsus in the region of Cilicia. He remained there for some time and we were only able to conjecture a little about what he did while there. Luke picks up his story, [...]
Pioneer Village – Part 1
In addition to the Welcome Center & History Museum, the Osceola County Historical Society also operates an outdoor museum called Pioneer Village. Over the next few blog posts that are not part of the Life of Paul series I will be introducing you to some of the people who's lives are honored and referenced in [...]
Life of Paul 9
For this week's review of the events in Paul's life, I want to first step back a little in Luke's account of the early church in Acts 4:32-37. Here we read about the church in Jerusalem before Stephen's martyr and before Paul had begun his persecution of the church. The church was growing and caring [...]
History Museum
The Osceola County Welcome Center and History Museum (where I work) tells the story of the cultural and natural history of the county. A few weeks ago I posted some information about the natural history story that we tell. Today, I'm going to share a little about the local human history as portrayed in the [...]
Life of Paul 8
In the last Life of Paul post, we saw Ananias being told to find Paul in Damascus, heal his eyes, and baptize him. The story picks up from there. The information we have from Scripture is fairly short, but it calls for some lengthy speculation about what all happened to Paul next. Here are the [...]