The northeaster hit like a hammer and the crew lost the ability to steer. Day one they barely secured the lifeboat. Day two they threw the cargo overboard. Day three they jettisoned the ship’s gear…
The story ends the way it ran the whole way through. Humbly. Faithfully. Through ordinary people doing ordinary things while the Spirit works behind the scenes. Paul wades ashore on Malta after a…
On the fourteenth night the sailors sensed land. The soundings dropped fast, a hundred twenty feet, then ninety, and the most dangerous moment came right as deliverance got close. Some sailors tried…
Luke picks his pen back up with one small word he has not used in years. We. He is on the boat now, and so is Aristarchus, because even the greatest missionary in the New Testament needed friends…
Paul summed up thirty years in eight words. I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. Most of us, given three decades to summarize, could not land on a sentence that clean. That is the shape of…
This is the third time Luke records Paul’s conversion, each version shaped for its audience. For Agrippa, Paul collapses the whole event into a single conversation on the road and adds a detail the…
Two years, two governors, one assassination plot, and finally a king who actually understood the categories. For the first time since his arrest, Paul was speaking to someone who could follow the…
Five days after Paul’s escort galloped out of Jerusalem, the high priest himself came down to a Gentile port to ask a corrupt pagan governor to do what God’s law would not let him do. He hated Paul…
Luke chose a phrase used for royal parades. Great pomp. Agrippa in royal purple, Bernice in the finery that had made her famous in Rome, five tribunes, the prominent men of Caesarea. Then a side door…
Festus had a problem. He had to write a legal brief for Caesar explaining charges that did not exist, and sending a Roman citizen to the emperor with a confused memo would be career suicide. Then King…
