Welcome to 2019! The end of the year sped away from me and I’ve had a slow start to the new year. I find that’s how life works at times. Maybe you do as well. Today’s lesson will be our final one in this series on Paul’s second missionary journey. All of the lessons for…
“After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he…
“Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said:”Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something…
Good Morning! Here’s some additional information to enhance your study of Paul’s second missionary journey. Blessings, Mimi Philippi: BiblePlaces Philippi: Wikipedia Philippi: Unesco Amphipolis: Britannica Amphipolis: BiblePlaces Apollonia: BibleWalks Apollonia: The Bible Journey Thessalonica: BiblePlaces Thessalonica: Ancient History Encyclopedia Thessalonica: Wikipedia Berea: Wikipedia Athens: BiblePlaces Athens: The British Museum Athens: Britannica Macedonia: Bible Study Tools
“The men who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible. While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews…
Today, we travel with Paul and his companions about one hundred miles from Philippi to Thessalonica with a couple of pit stops in between. They most likely took this trip in three stages. Amphipolis and Apollonia broke the trip from Philippi to Thessalonica into roughly three equal distance journeys and would have taken approximately three…
We started our biblical journey with Paul on his second missionary trip seven weeks ago. Although we’ve covered some ground with him, we still have further to go. We read last week that Paul and Silas had found themselves in an incredibly difficult situation. They had been arrested, bound and shackled, and placed in a…
“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.” Acts 16:25 Paul and Silas had been dragged before the magistrates as many as twelve hours earlier. Their wounds would have made sleep difficult along with being chained, bound, and shackled. To make the passing time more…
“When the owners of the slave girl realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities. They brought them before the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar by advocating customs unlawful for…