Prairie Preacher

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Suffering -- Acts 21:1-36 13.09.2020 46:31 ↓

The road to Jerusalem continues...

Civil Religion Confronts the Way -- Acts 19:21-41 30.08.2020 38:30 ↓

Civil religion, according to New Testament scholar Michael Gorman, is what happens when the sacred becomes political and the political becomes sacred. Civil religion is also the result of the few and power wrapping up the culture they want to impose or maintain in the religious language of the many.

I Am With You...But Not With You Only! Acts 18:1-17 09.08.2020 35:48 ↓

Preaching, conversion, opposition, confrontation...this pattern has emerged in Acts, so the events of chapter 18 are not surprising. However, Luke's account of Paul in Corinth gives us some insight into how Paul was able to endure, to continue, to overcome. He experiences a vision that tells him, not to go, but to stay, and this vision tells us how Paul was enabled and empowered for faithfuln...