Thu 9
Sep

Relevant or Counter-cultural?: Acts 15:1-2

Acts 15:1-2

Some men came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them.....

We have heard of the way that the Gospel has spread to the non-Jews, how the Holy Spirit led Paul and Barnabas to preach both in the synagogue and to pagans. We have heard...

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Tue 7
Sep

God carriers and the perils of power: Acts 14:11 and 14

Acts 14:11 and 14

‘When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes...’

Paul heals someone and the crowds all of a sudden think that they are Greek gods. Paul and Barnabas are not gods and they are not happy to be called gods. I get unhappy sometimes, but I...

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