Category: Life of Paul

Paul continues his letter to the church in Rome. Last time I reviewed his reasons for writing (laying a strong theological foundation and his plans to visit on his way to Spain), as recorded in Romans 1-5 and 15-16. The rest of the book (chapters 6-14) focuses on Christian living. As the NIV study bible [...]

The next phase of Paul's life began after he visited Corinth one last time. In our last visit with Paul, he had received word through Titus about Corinth while in Macedonia. He wrote 2nd Corinthians and we looked at that letter. We read in Acts 20:2-3 that, "when he had gone through those regions and [...]

When we last left Paul, he was still in northern Macedonia after having left Ephesus at the culmination of his three-year ministry there. He had been expecting to hear from Titus about how things are in Corinth but had not done so, so out of concern for matters there he crossed the Aegean Sea in [...]

I ended my previous post on the Life of Paul with this statement - Luke finishes this section of Paul’s ministry in Ephesus with “After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. (Acts 20:1)” The next verse in Acts says "When he had gone [...]

In the previous post in this series, we finished looking at Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth. As a quick review, he had sent them an initial letter (which we don't have) and they sent emissaries to him in Ephesus along with a letter of their own with questions. These communications all transpired [...]