Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

General Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines in the dark days of 1942 because of the advancing Japanese army vowing, "I shall return".  In 1944, he returned to Leyte Island after the tide of the wa…

Paul is no stranger to injustice.  Usually he gets a plate full of it.  In Corinth however, he actually enjoys justice as his case is thrown out before he even has to open his mouth in his defense. T…

Apparently, the good Lord looks upon our cities with a different set of EYES and TIMING. He says to Paul, "I have many in this city who are my people." When Paul looks around he sees a different pict…

Paul goes to his furthest point on the "second" Missionary Journey: Corinth.  He stays for 18 months. He's very involved with people, both Jews and Gentiles, as they are melded together into the new …

God exists. In Him we have our being. We are created. In Him we have breath and life.  In Him we have sustenance.  This is not from the Old Testament Bible.  It is from the Paul McCartney of their da…

The people of Athens are 'spiritual' people.  All people are spiritual people.  God made all of us that way.  He put "eternity in our hearts."

But the athenians have gotten the DIRECTION of their wors…

When Paul saw the Parthenon, it was already almost 500 years old.  Though it stands now as a generic monument to Greek architecture, its' purpose then was infinitely different.  It was made for WORSH…

Can a civilian person who gives some eager attention to the scriptures actually make sense of them?  The Bereans show us YES. If you do what they do, which is described as NOBLE, the Scriptures will …

A mob/rabble forms that is so angry at an IDEA, that they attack a BUILDING.  What? They mis-anger so badly that they will take ANY target to vent.  What could cause such passion?

That it is NECESSARY…

Magistrates today have a bit of "come to Jesus" moment.  The lightbulb goes on that they have MISUSED the authority that they have been given.

Having authority = Being accountable for that authority
Au…

Following the great question: "What must I do to be saved?" is an action. But, it is not an action of DOING, it is an action of BELIEF.  We are very tempted to always be "working" our way to God.  Ev…

Imagine having a job that if you fail in it for a single day, you would be eager to take a sword and stick it into your own body so violently that you would kill yourself. Where do you find a job lik…

Listen 7 minutes and hear an exciting story of opposition from both ANOTHER world, as well as THIS world.

Paul encounters spiritual opposition from the demonic world and deals with it.  Then he encoun…

We meet a woman who goes ALL IN for the Lord.  That is, she votes with her all.  She votes with all she has.  She votes with everything precious to her. She votes with her PURPLE.

The purple comes fro…

The phrase that unmoored me a bit is "The Spirit of Jesus" that's used in Acts 16:7
Then I was unmoored by a Person
Then I was unmoored by a God of Trinity
Then I was moored by the phrase
Then I was moor…

Either the phrase "the Spirit of Jesus" or the Person of "the Spirit of Jesus" has disturbed the soul of your podcaster.  (Yikes, do I really want a podcaster who gets unmoored at a little turn-of-ph…

Vast amounts of Asia real-estate is covered.  Over most of it, the Holy Spirit says NO.  Don't go east.  Don't go south.  Go west for a while until you cannot go any further.  Then what?  Wait for it…

Timothy makes a serious, painful, anatomically-altering decision in the opening verses of Acts 16.  Of great interest, the whole of Acts 15 was about this very topic.  

The question was, "Do you need …

Today we look at the worst thing in the Bible about Paul and Barnabas.  (Yes, I know that Paul probably killed people.) It is so bad, we have to wonder why God put this in the Bible for us.  It is a …

How do you make a decision when God is "silent?" How can I find the will of God when His voice seems non-existent?  

The church in Jerusalem experiences this in our passage today.  They make a big dec…