Thanks to Pastor Rick Hunter of CityChurch for his sermon on Acts 17:16-34, where Paul had a unique opportunity to preach to a group of well-educated men who did not know the Bible. This sermon sounds very different from those he preached in the Jewish synagogues but contains the same Gospel message. As Christians present this good news to people of all backgrounds, we can learn much from Paul’s ability to deliver an unchanging message in a form that was accessible to his audience and even persuasive to some of them, who went away wanting to hear more.
The Thessalonian Christians show us what it looks like to live out God’s grace under persecution.
In response to King Saul’s second major error and his excuse, Samuel famously declared that to obey is better than sacrifice.
As we ended the first chapter of Ruth, there was a ray of hope for the two widows. Maybe they would not starve to...