Archives: Devos

Heeding the Holy Spirit

I think “The Acts of the Apostles” could aptly be called “The Acts of the Holy Spirit Through the Apostles.” I mention this because it might appear that Paul the apostle is fighting the leading of the Holy Spirit in Acts 20-21.Paul spoke of the “many tears and trials which happened to me by the […]

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The Postcard

In Revelation 2 there is a little section—I would call it a postcard—where Jesus is writing to the Ephesian church. It’s noteworthy because something great had happened in Ephesus. There was a generation who had turned to the Lord and were excited about the Word of God. Paul had taught in their midst, going through […]

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The Prisoner

Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). Interestingly and ironically, one of the chief carriers of that message was Paul the Apostle—and he did it until the day he died.Acts 19:21 says, “When these things were accomplished, Paul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed […]

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Reactions to Reason

Acts 17 opens as Paul, having travelled from Phillipi, arrived at Thessalonica, “where there was a synagogue of the Jews. Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures” (vv. 1-2).The Christian faith is a reasonable faith. Paul never went to people and said, […]

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Who's Your Paul?

When Paul went on his first missionary journey in AD 47, there were no churches in the areas that he visited. Ten years later, there were many. So he set out on his second missionary journey, to go back to all of those areas and see how the believers were doing.He talked to his colleague […]

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