I Thessalonians 3:1-13 Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone… (v. 1). “left behind” and “alone”… In our Men’s Group discussion this past Tuesday someone said that the Christian life is meant to be lived in community, not alone. And there’s great truth in …
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August 7 / I Thessalonians 2:1-20
I Thessalonians 2:1-20 A correction… In the second paragraph from my second set of comments in the links below I wrote that “Jews from Philippi had come to Thessalonica to create havoc for Paul, driving him out of town…”. I don’t know where I got that information; I looked back and forth in Scripture and …
August 6 / I Thess.1:1-10
I Thessalonians 1:1-10 Our second of Paul’s epistles, this one to his converts from Thessalonica. Presumably Paul wrote this letter and a second (II Thessalonians) while he was in Corinth. Just yesterday we were reading in Acts 18 about Paul’s 18-month stay in Corinth. Very likely, through Silas and Timothy Paul stayed in communication with …
August 5 / Acts 18:1-28
Acts 18:1-18 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla… (v. 2) Aquila was a traveler!! Pontus was a region along the north/northeast coast of modern-day Turkey, bordering the Black Sea to the north. To get to Italy Aquila had to travel west through …
August 4 / Acts 17:16-34
Acts 17:16-34 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new. (v. 21) This sentence seems to me very unlike the rest of Luke’s writing. Most often he is direct, specific, exact. Here he is speaking very generally – …all the Athenians… …
August 3 / Acts 17:1-15
Acts 17:1-15 …they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. (v. 17b) I should have pointed out yesterday that Paul and Silas did not go to the synagogue in Philippi, but went down to the river where there was a “place of prayer”. Then upon coming to Thessalonica Paul and Silas …
August 2 / Acts 16:16-40
Acts 16:16-40 I commented yesterday that Luke was also preaching the gospel (Acts 16:10). Today, we see him again in Acts 16:16-17. However, it seems that Luke was not as forthright as Paul and Silas in his preaching, in that he was not seized by the owners or beaten by the magistrates: But when her …
August 1 / Acts 15:36-16:15
Acts 15:36-16:16 And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. (v. 10) No doubt, upon reading this verse the words “we” and “us” immediately jumped out at you. Yes, this is the first occurrence of the …
August 2021 Readings
Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Aug Acts 15:36-16:15 21 02-Aug Acts 16:16-40 25 03-Aug Acts 17:1-15 15 04-Aug Acts 17:16-34 19 05-Aug Acts 18:1-28 28 06-Aug I Thess.1:1-10 10 07-Aug I Thess. 2:1-20 20 08-Aug I Thess. 3:1-13 13 09-Aug I Thess. 4:1-18 18 10-Aug I Thess. 5:1-28 28 11-Aug II Thess. 1:1-12 12 12-Aug II Thess. …
July 31 / James 5:1-20
James 5:1-20 Come now, you rich, weep and howl… (v. 1a) You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. (v. 5a) Often when I read a New Testament item about the rich I pause and consider the full context, because compared to the rest of the world we in the USA are …