Three Minute Thoughts

Hebrews is known as the hall of faith book. The pillars of faith throughout the Old Testament all have something powerful and special about them, but none of them are good enough to replace Jesus. They are servants. Jesus is the Son.

Hebrews is a letter written to bolster the faith of the people who read it. Jesus is the example and the encouragement of who we are called to be and the sacrifice who paid for the wrongs we commit when we don't do it right.

As we open a new book we take a few minutes to look at the background stuff. This will help set the rest of the book up to be more easily understood.

As we wrap up the book of Acts, we meet Paul sharing why he is where he is and whose opinion matters most to him. Then gives a pretty scathing answer to the Jewish leaders of his day!

Paul is headed to Rome when a storm hits. So the world's answer when in a storm is to throw everything and everyone overboard. But what is God's answer?

When Paul is on trial he chooses not to defend himself but give witness to who Jesus is and why he follows Jesus.

In today's episode we're going to step away from Acts 25 (still read it!) and we're going to focus on the missionary journeys of Paul for a minute to see where he went and with whom. Hopefully this helps a little with all of the pronouns we see used in these chapters.

Paul is in prison because they didn't know what else to do with him. When our views come before God's Word then we bring division. Keep grounded in the word.

The problem we have when we don't agree with someone is that we see them as an enemy but what if we took time to learn from them why they think that way? Paul wasn't going to budge from his position and his accusers don't like it one bit.

Paul defends who he is not what he said. His message really needs no defense.