by lightinthedesertchurch | Feb 19, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Acts, we examined Paul’s rather extensive stay in Corinth. While the year-and-a-half he spent there seems to have been riddled with rejection by the locals the whole time, the conflict escalated...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Feb 12, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Acts, we came to Paul’s famous apologetic speech before the Areopagus in Acts 17. While this passage surely has much to teach us about engaging with a culture that, much like the Athenians of...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Feb 5, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Acts, we witnessed the missionary efforts of Paul and Silas in two cities – Thessalonica and Berea. While Paul and Silas shared the Gospel by the same means in both cities, namely reasoning,...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Jan 29, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued in Acts, we walked through three little vignettes regarding the mission work of Paul and Silas. As we reflect on these passages I want to take a second to draw attention to an interesting detail in the story of Paul and...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Jan 22, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Acts, we came across a moment in the early church where it looked like the wheels might be starting to fall off. Paul and Barnabas were preparing to return to the cities where they had previously preached...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Jan 15, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Acts, we tackled a huge portion of narrative in chapter 15 spanning verses 1-35. Here we read about one of the most famous (or infamous) controversies of the early church: whether or not Gentile believers...
