leaving to deliver a financial collection other churches have raised for the famine stricken Jerusalem (Romans

straight for Samothrace, and the next day we went on to Neapolis. 12 From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. 14 One of those listening was a woman Next, Luke keys in on a particular woman, sharing all sorts of details about her: where she was from, From these details we can deduce that Lydia was likely a free woman (in a world where most people were

The Roman Empire referred to them as a triumphus - a parade in which a victorious general would triumphantly

main schools of thought as to the relationship of Jesus' body and blood and the communion elements: Roman

Today: Romans 12

Today: Romans 10

conformed to the world's pattern of thinking, and instead be transformed by the renewing of your mind (Romans

What Jesus means here is that our Father is not content with having secured the salvation of 99% of His we don't even really specifically remember it; By His grace, we've spent most of our lives with the 99 is the same: Our Father is happier about finding you and rescuing you from sin than He is about the 99 who are already safe (but each of those 99 could say that same thing about when God found them!). Today: Romans 6

Here in Acts 11, Peter had gone into the house of a gentile - a Roman Centurion, no less - and had not

ponder the invisible things of God: his eternal power and his divinity, as the apostle Paul says in Romans