Category: Life of Paul

I was unable to write an "in-between" blog post last week, so I'll just continue this week with my Life of Paul series. We left Paul last time on the shores of Pamphylia (Turkey). Acts 13:13 records, "Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left [...]

The church in Antioch has been prospering. We see in Acts 13:1-3 that it is a church comprised of a diverse group of people - diversity of race, of culture, of economy, and of gifts. The church is engaging in worship and service and the Holy Spirit stirs them to global missions. "Now there were [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]