Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

I could be wrong about today.  I state my conclusions humbly. We drop into a moment of church history where the specific issues of joining Gentiles and Jews into the new Body of Christ were being pla…

4 guys are in the middle of a vow to the Lord that is lengthy, expensive, complicated, and confusing.  They are wrestling with the big question of "What will you do about your SIN?" Less so, what is …

Paul gets a HEART ATTACK not from clotted arteries, but from an emotional appeal from everybody around him.  They are begging him NOT to go to Jerusalem because suffering, capture and other unpalatab…

Paul is landing the 3rd Missionary journey into a HOT LANDING ZONE (LZ). The Spirit has been notifying just about everybody and their brother that this is so.  Paul knows. The Tyre people know. The p…

The LAST THING Paul ever says to the Ephesian Elders is WORK HARD. And he KNOWS this is his last chance.  It must be important.  Yes, it is important to others, but it is also important to YOURSELF. …

Paul separates the two halves of an elder's spiritual life and then puts them back together.  ½ = pay attention to yourselves. ½= pay attention to the church of God.

Regarding yourself, be alert. Reme…

Could Paul be guilty of not doing his specific job in the church? Yup.  In his goodbye to the elders of Ephesus, he assesses this responsibility.  He states he is "INNOCENT of the blood".  Conversely…

Does becoming a Christian make all your problems go away?  I once heard someone say that. 

This is not Paul's experience, and it likely will not be ours either.  His experience is:
one of  VIOLENCE...s…

Watch as Paul makes decisions amidst the "cooperative sovereignty" of the newly launched Holy Spirit.  He is in a HURRY to get to Jerusalem for Pentecost, which is "Christmas Day for the Holy Spirit"…

A guy named LUCKY dies and is raised from the dead.  He is listing to Paul after midnight.  He is sitting by the 3rd story window. He falls asleep. The power of sleep doesn't care if it is the great …

If you have been a Christian for more than a month, I'll ask: WHO ARE YOUR PEOPLE?  Where are your MEN?  Where are your WOMEN?  Where are your spiritual KIDS?

Today's passage is a lesson in geography …

The "cancel culture" of Ephesus is eventually silenced, corrected, and AT RISK themselves. Meantime, there is capture, confusion, mis-worship and even misinterpretation of a meteorite.  

They are warn…

Acts is appropriately named, as it has a lot of ACTION.  Today, we see theology, friendship and a riot.  My favorite today is that the senior officials of the Roman Emperor worship cult WERE FRIENDS …

The Temple to Artemis in Ephesus WAS one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.  That is, for most people, seeing that temple was THE MOST SPECTACULAR thing they saw in their entire lifetime.  Today …

The exact moment, decisions, and even the type of decision making is discussed in two books of the bible by two authors.  Luke writes about Paul's plans in the book of Acts.  Paul writes about the sa…

Jose Ortega Y Gasset said, "Life is a series of collisions with the future." Therefore, "Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."

We see that exact process in Paul as he DECI…

The people of Ephesus are playing fast and loose with evil.  La-te-da, how bad could it be? Well, when they are confronted with the manifestation of evil with some of its' powers displayed, the Ephes…

7 brothers choose to mis-appropriate the name of Jesus.  As in all things, there are consequences for such decisions.  We are instructed in the 10 commandments to not use the name of the Lord in vain…

Listen 7 minutes and see your podcaster, Apollos, and the Ephesians GET MORE MATURE DAILY.  We start with believers who haven't even HEARD of the Holy Spirit.  It's like they only read the first coup…

Apollos is such a good speaker and leader that it eventually causes a bit of hero worship in Corinth, "I follow Apollos..." Today, we see, besides his natural gifts of eloquence, boldness, and compet…