Life s great!… until it’s not. Last week we learned some vital lessons for how to persevere when life is severe as we walked through Acts 27 and the Apostle Paul’s perilous sea journey to Rome. When we ended that chapter, Paul and the other 275 folks had made it to shore after their ship broke apart, just as God had promised. Now they find themselves on the small island of Malta, where they will spend the next few months waiting for safe passage, and a ship, to take them t

Have you ever watched any big-budget, Hollywood disaster movies? I’ve watched a lot of them… from The Towering Inferno to The Day After Tomorrow. The plots are generally pretty outlandish, but they’re always entertaining because they keep you on the edge of your seat! Acts 27 reads like a Hollywood disaster movie script; but it’s a true story! As the Apostle Paul makes his way to Rome to have his case heard by Caesar, he finds himself in the middle of a perilous, “disastro

Have you ever tried to “persuade” someone to follow Jesus? In Acts 26, as he defends himself against his accusers yet again, this time to King Herod Agrippa II, the Apostle Paul decides to attempt to persuade Agrippa, and anyone else listening, to believe! It would be a tough task because Agrippa’s life was marred with sin and debauchery, but Paul hoped there was a chance he might persuade him to follow Christ. To do that, Paul leans into his own salvation story, his power

Remember when you were a child and you knew you had done something wrong and your parents confronted you about it? It didn’t matter what you said, they could tell when you were lying because you couldn’t look them in the eye! In the book of Acts chapters 23-24, the Apostle Paul has to defend himself against accusers who were trying to stop him from sharing the gospel, even to the point of wanting him killed. In these chapters we see what it takes to live with a clean cons