Monthly Archives: June 2015

The world is full of suffering.  Religion acknowledges that this is reality.  Buddhists seek acceptance of their circumstances through contemplation.  Hindus often do the same.  Jews realize that all circumstances come from the hand of God.  So, do Christians.  Even … Continue reading →

Dig Deeper than Your Doubt To be human is to doubt.  We doubt if we are going to make it through an ordeal.  We doubt if we are really loved.  I even found that I wasn’t the only one who … Continue reading →

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge … Continue reading →

There are many of us who are fathers and we have all had fathers.  They may have been good or they may have been bad, they may have even been absent.  Our experience of our earthly fathers shapes our perception … Continue reading →

23 About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way. 24 A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in a lot of business for the craftsmen there. 25 He called them together, along with the workers in … Continue reading →

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard … Continue reading →

Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae because of a vow he … Continue reading →

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul … Continue reading →

16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day … Continue reading →

10 As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. 11 Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received … Continue reading →