Sharing the Word

The Lord looks out for me here and now, and continuously works at saving me. My response has to be ongoing gratitude--a grateful heart.

Our friends are great gifts to us. They are significant instruments of God’s providence.

After revisiting towns he had evangelized previously Paul planned to travel further, proclaiming the news of salvation. God seemed to have plans for their journey.

Not everything is equally important in being a follower of Jesus. Some demands of Christian life are essential while others--though nonessential--serve to preserve tranquility and order.

It is clear from what Peter experienced that God wants Gentiles in his people as well as Jews. We are saved by Jesus, not by Mosaic Law.

Was the community of Jesus merely an offshoot of Judaism or something that had a nature and life of its own? Some Pharisee believers insisted that you had to be a Jew to be a follower of Jesus.

When it became clear that Gentiles could be received into the community of Jesus the Church had reached an important point in its early life.

We don’t have many details about the individual apostles’ lives, but we do know that each of them experienced and proclaimed the Lord really dead, really risen.

Paul and Barnabas are not successful with the Jews at Antioch in Pisidia. God does not always work in ways we expect. But he does always brings about his own kind of success.