Acts 8:26-40 This past Thursday we had a RIC day at the beach. We announced this in the bulletin for at least three weeks ahead of time and I mentioned this in church during announcements. We had a great time. I put up my WWI biplane kite with a long colorful tail and then flew [...]
Acts 9:19-31 Let’s say you wanted to be a professor. After years of study and training, with graduate degrees under your belt, you step into the classroom and the students fall asleep while you lecture, talk with each other while you try to communicate your lesson and three-quarters of the class walks out early. How [...]
Acts 9:1-19 About six years ago when I read Walter Wangerin’s book, Paul: A Novel, I fell in love with Paul. I had always viewed Paul as a cold, hard intellect who used his debating skills for the gospel. But after reading this book, he became flesh and blood to me and reading his letters [...]
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Acts 8:4-25 Simon Magus, or Simon the Magician, about whom we read in Acts 8 has the distinction of being the first heretic in the church and the Simonians, who followed Simon Magus, were a cult that lasted for the first three hundred years of the early church’s history. Justin Martyr and Irenaeus tell the [...]
Acts 8:26-40 This past Thursday we had a RIC day at the beach. We announced this in the bulletin for at least three weeks ahead of time and I mentioned this in church during announcements. We had a great time. I put up my WWI biplane kite with a long colorful tail and then flew [...]
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