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In Acts 9 Saul is in the process of figuring out that everything he knows is wrong. Those kind of realizations are usually spread out over years, but for him it’s a matter of three days. Three blind, lonely, hungry days. He can’t sit there forever though, because God apparently has enormous plans for the […]
Saul’s conversion was dramatic. Peter, James, and John followed Jesus after they hauled in a freakish, literal boat-load of fish in one cast. Thomas truly believed after he saw his friend come back from the dead. My story is comparatively dull. So dull that it fits into a three minute and fifty second video. But […]
You know what? Acts chapter 8 pretty much ruled. Sure, Simon the Wizard was weird, but generally speaking that whole chapter is a refreshing break from the abuse the Christians had been taking for weeks in Jerusalem. The message about Jesus went out from where it was born and all kinds of different people were […]
In Episode 40 I pointed out that Acts 8:37 doesn’t appear in most modern translations. In this adorable little bonus video I’ll explain the basics of Bible translation and that’ll shed some light on why translators eventually decided that verse 37 wasn’t in the original text and needed to be relegated to the footnotes.
Admittedly stuff got a little weird when Simon tried to buy God’s power and then got told off by Peter, but all told, the Gospel’s first foray beyond the boundaries of Judaism went pretty dang well. Philip was the guy who spearheaded that effort and now he’s on to his next adventure which leads him […]
Episodes 34, 35, and 36 all cover Acts 8:9-25. This video is all three episodes combined into a single easy-to-view, easy-to-share full version.
What are we supposed to take from passages like the account of Simon Magus trying to buy miraculous power from the disciples? I’m not sure there’s one simple instructive thing we should obviously all start doing differently, but that doesn’t mean there’s not stuff to learn and think about. In this third part of a […]
Simon the Sorcerer was super popular with his Samaritan buddies but he was also impressed by the Holy Spirit, so he got baptized and then offered Peter cash in exchange for the power of the Holy Spirit. Everything had been going great, but right when he said that the whole room got really quiet and […]
Philip talked about Jesus with the hated Samaritans, and, to just about everyone’s surprise, they liked it. Among them was a sorcerer named Simon. You read that correctly, his job was sorcery. What sorcery is this? We’ll take a good chunk of this episode to explore that question. Simon decides that God has cool powers […]
Normally, when people get arrested, threatened, and run out of town for thinking controversial things, they lay low for a while after that. But when the religious leaders started kicking down doors and hauling off Christians, the new believers just took their message to someone who wasn’t trying to kill them instead.
