Category: Life of Paul

In my Life of Paul 25 post I mentioned all the various elements that went into the makeup and organization of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. He was writing this letter during his time in Ephesus on his third missionary journey. A group of people from Corinth had crossed the Aegean Sea to deliver [...]

As I said in my last post on the Life of Paul, Paul received a group of visitors from Corinth while he was in Ephesus. He had already written to the church there in a letter of which we don't have a copy. The visiting group brought a letter from the church (of which we [...]

In the last Life of Paul post we saw Paul arrive in Ephesus during his third missionary journey. When we left him, Luke had just told us that he had completed two years of ministry in the region (Acts 19:10) - "This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the [...]

Just as a point of review, the website of Dwell Community Church has an interesting article that suggests some timings and dates for Paul's ministry. According to it, Paul completed his second missionary journey in the fall of AD 51. He then set out on his third missionary journey in the spring of AD 52. [...]

Some time after Paul wrote his second letter to the believers in Thessalonica, he had a pretty severe conflict arise during his ministry in Corinth. Paul had already alluded to an increase in opposition in his letter (2 Thessalonians 3:1-2) - "Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead [...]