As you will hear in this week’s PODCAST, there is a day coming when there will be a whole lot of surprises.
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Prepare in this PODCAST to be inspired!
This as we meet a brand new friend.
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Just the fact that you are choosing to listen to this PODCAST is proof-positive that you haven’t yet given up.
We have one most-compelling reason never to give up.
Hear what that reason is right here.
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Gratefully used with permission from my friend, Udi Merioz
As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, our bountiful banquet table of Truth is overflowing.
A spiritual smorgasbord guaranteed to challenge your thinking and rock your worldview.
Get ready for this delectable culinary delight, courtesy of Messers Paul, Barnabas, and Mark.
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While I am both honored and humbled to teach some precious people at camp, I have not left you PODCAST-less.
THIS is one of the most powerful and profound messages in all of Scripture: How to Survive—Yeah, verily—to THRIVE in the desert.
You are in for a life-altering, paradigm-shifting tour of the biblical stage that will change the way you read and understand your Bible.
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May I share with you an observation?
As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, the observation is this: The precision of Bible is nothing short of awe-inspiring.
A precision that goes down to the level of its individual words and phrases.
Case in point—The. Precise. Phrase that Peter used here in 1 Peter 2:11 to describe us as committed followers of Jesus. Peter wrote,
“You are foreigners and strangers on this earth.”
As you will hear, a most remarkable statement, the ramifications of which are wide-reaching, the depths of which we will only begin to plumb in this message.
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You are in for a real treat, I do believe.
As you are about to hear in this week’s PODCAST, it’s one of the most basic principles of proper biblical interpretation, the ground rule of hermeneutics.
Ready? Here it is: “The Bible is the best commentary on itself.”
Ever heard that before? Well, you’re going to get a classic example of that rock-solid (pun intended) truism right now.
Let’s start with this: Peter, it seems, was obsessed with stones and rocks. And that for a very good reason.
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His legacy is forever set in stone, indelibly etched in granite as Simon the Sorcerer.
As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, Simon the Sorcerer is the very first person we meet outside of the cozy confines of the Holy City, Jerusalem. #ThisIsHuge!
You talk about a guy who had the deck stacked against him, meet this Simon the Samaritan Sorcerer.
That gasp you just heard was the rush of disbelieving air exploding out of the collapsing lungs of Luke’s original readers.
Trust me: We should gasp too!
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It was a scandal in the making.
As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, a vast cultural divide threatened to rip asunder the fragile fabric of unity these first believers in Jesus earlier enjoyed.
As we learned last week (Podcast #27), the story begins,
“But as the believers rapidly multiplied, there were rumblings of discontent. The Greek-speaking believers complained about the Hebrew-speaking believers, saying that their widows were being discriminated against in the daily distribution of food.”
That was, as you will remember, a dire situation for these precious widows. Dire in the extreme. Women who had lost their husbands, and who were now among the most vulnerable in that male-dominated society. Females forced to live in a world that diminished women to a subservient status. One that rendered them uneducated, unskilled, unemployable, utterly without resources. Totally dependent.
Now that they had become followers of Jesus, they could not return to their synagogues for support. Not to worry. We read earlier in Acts 2 that
“(These first believers) would sell their property and possessions and give the money to whoever needed it… and shared their food happily and freely.”
Not any more.
Last week, we went into much detail about the collision of cultures faced by these early believers. A vast cultural divide between the Greek-speaking (Hellenistic) believers who were in the minority, and Hebrew-speaking believers who were in the majority. A cultural divide of church-splitting potential.
So wide a divide that the majority discriminated against the minority to the risk of the lives of Greek-speaking widows.
This was serious. So serious that the Apostles (all Twelve of the Apostles) were forced to drop everything in order to address problem.
Their solution was nothing short of brilliant! For them. And for us!
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The Latest News from Jerusalem
Dewey Bertolini 