When Paul finally returns home to friends after a long... LONG missionary journey, he faces accusations and has to make a choice: do I tell them to get lost, or do I take an incovenient extra step to help them get over an obstacle?

Paul faces decisions of when to engage with people, and when to disengage and move on. He also encounters people who, like us today, needed to face the truth about spiritual battles that go on around us and can be a danger to us. In the end, Paul is challenged to re-affirm himself before his friends, and his reaction may suprise you.

There are people right here, around you, who YOU are specially qualified to speak to because you "speak their language." How can we remind ourselves that we are always on mission for Jesus to tell the world about Him so we take opportunities to speak to those people?!

The account of Paul's second missionary journey shows examples of unexpected changes, and finding a way to speak to people in a very different culture who knew nothing of God.

Twelve years after Jesus' ascension and the beginning of the Apostles' mission, the first bit of serious internal trouble showed up in the Church. Spoiler alert: people weren't getting along.

Pastor Jon joins us again this week as we ask the questions: Where in your spiritual life have you run into opposition where you expected support? Have you ever had people you thought were on your side turn on you? It's not a great feeling, so how do we recover and stay on-mission as Christians?

We continue our study of the book of Acts as the early church movement takes it's first official foray into the Roman Empire. They start with Cyprus. That should be an easy one, right?...

Pastor Jon Simpson joins us on the podcast this week to really look at what Peter went through that night God miraculously sprung him from jail, where he may well have awaited his execution! How do we react when God springs us out of a situation we did'nt think we could be saved from? And how often is the way he answers our prayers so unlike our expectations we could almost miss it?!

We continue our journey through acts, and things are really heating up for the fledgling church. James (one of the big three!) is put to death and Peter finds himself arrested again with no way out... and he needs a miracle.

Peter had to learn to let go of the cultural traditions and rules that could stand in the way of fulfilling Christ's commission to spread the Gospel. Cultural Christianity can be just as big of an obstacle to us, today, when it keep us from being fully-formed servants of Jesus.