It’s hard enough under any circumstances to decide which issues are worth fighting over. As Christians we are also called to handling such issues properly. The council in Acts 15 is an example of how to differ over critical issues as Christians
To know God's love, to show God's love
To know God's love, to show God's love
Sermons by Gordon Walker
In Acts 14 Luke selects two encounters, one in Iconium where the message of the gospel was misrepresented by its enemies, and Lystra where it was misunderstood by its hearers. He tells us about these encounters to teach us to:
Living in a creation fractured by sin requires that
Psalm 4 expresses our Burden for the loss, the pain we feel at the shame they heap on our God, and the appeal we make to them
The first psalm, the first in the collection to follow the two introductory psalms, is the song of a man who is utterly overwhelmed. That is where worship often begins, and is most needed.
The first psalm calls the individual to seek wisdom, the second calls the nations to submit for they are like chaff
Psalm 1 was intentionally chosen to be the first entry in the book of Psalms and we will look at it in that light to see how it prepares us to encounter all that follows.
In Cyprus, Luke focused on Paphos where the gospel was preached among people who had a distorted view of God thanks to the Jewish sorceror, Elymas. In Pisidian Antioch he shows us a context in which the truth is clearly known, but Christ still causes division. Some receive the fulfilment of all they have hoped…
Barnabas and Saul, sent out from the church in Antioch, travel first to Cyprus where an encounter with a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet whose message has just enough truth in it to snare the ear of a Roman proconsul teaches them two lessons: