Category: Life of Paul

We are following Paul in his second missionary journey. He visited the Galatian churches and then traveled to Troas where he saw a vision directing him to cross the Aegean Sea to Macedonia. This post will focus on the events that happened at his first major destination - Philippi. Luke picks up the story in [...]

After the council meeting in Jerusalem that resulted in the letter from the Jerusalem church leaders to Gentile believers, Paul and Barnabas returned to Antioch in Syria accompanied by Judas and Silas. They all remained in Antioch for an indefinite period of time. Then Luke tells us in Acts 15:36-41, "And after some days Paul [...]

Before I begin this post on the Life of Paul, I want to mention that I went back to the three previous "Paul" posts and edited them to include episodes from a new series I recently found on Right Now Media. I'll be referring to these some in future posts, but I wanted to make [...]

At the end of the last post, Paul and Barnabas had returned to Antioch, the place from which they had been commissioned and sent on their missionary journey. Acts 14:27-28 says, "And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a [...]

I implied that Paul and Barnabas left Pisidian Antioch quickly last time, but I don't think that's what happened. The last verses of Acts 13 say, "And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region. But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, [...]