by Steve Thomason | Nov 12, 2010 | Devos
Acts 17:16-34 Paul was a master evangelist because he knew one simple truth: Know Your Audience. When Paul spoke to Jewish people, he reasoned with them from the scriptures and proved that Jesus was the Messiah that had been prophesied. This makes sense because the...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 9, 2010 | Devos
Acts 17:10-12 We live in a society where we, the common masses, are spoon fed sound bytes of information. We drive down the road and see a beautiful image on a billboard with a catchy phrase. We turn on the radio while we are driving and catch a thirty second news...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 8, 2010 | Devos
View postActs 16:6-10 In this passage Paul ran smack into a divine roadblock. It is most likely that Paul intended to go to Ephesus and establish a base camp from there. That was a logical plan since Ephesus was a hub of commerce and communication for the region of...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 8, 2010 | Devos
Acts 9:1-31 It is important to take a moment to contemplate this story in the flow of the entire Bible. The rest of the New Testament is dominated by this one man, Saul of Tarsus (who later went by his Greek name, Paul). Why did God choose this man when he had already...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 4, 2010 | Devos
Acts 6:8-8:3 As the stones hurled towards Stephen’s head and shattered his skull, they did more than end the life of a godly man. These stones were the tools of God to get His church unstuck. What?! The tools of God? Weren’t these stones a cruel act by a vicious and...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 3, 2010 | Devos
Acts 2:1-47 In our day one of the biggest challenges to the church is the fact that the identity of Jesus is becoming much distorted in our general culture. More and more people are becoming “spiritual” and are seeking spiritual truths. Many people are also being open...
