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In which John and David explore how God finds and knows Cornelius. There's so much to mine in chapter 10, but to begin with it fascinates us that God continues throughout this book called Acts to always move first. Everything we do is a response to God. Cornelius' vision is premised on the realization that God knows Cornelius and what he needs.

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In which John and David turn their attention to Cornelius. This unknown centurion bursts onto the scene in Acts 10 and makes significant waves on the early church's move towards the inclusion the Spirit wants. In this episode we explore how carefully Luke introduces Cornelius to us.

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In which John and David explore two healing moments in Acts 9. Luke chooses to interlude the massive stories of Paul's call and Cornelius with a couple of brief stories about healing miracles and Peter. Miracle stories that turn out to feel a little... familiar.

Read David's article "God Can't See Your Face: And Why That's Good News" that we mentioned in the episode.

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In which John and David notice that there's more going on in Acts 9 than just things about Paul. Sandwiched in between the story of Paul's call and what comes next we have a curious little account of some things about Peter. As you might expect, there's more there if we slow down to look.

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In which John and David ponder the role that Barnabas again plays in the story of the early church. Stepping into a situation and seemingly knowing the right thing to do we recognize Barnabas as the pastor many of us need to emulate.

Read John’s book that, amongst other things, explores the influence of Barnabas - click here

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In which John and David consider how Paul's conversion in Luke connects to other things we know about Paul in the New Testament. Sometimes the way we read stories makes it appear that the differing accounts lack resonance. We wonder if sometimes that's more because of how we read rather than anything else.

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In which John and David consider part of Acts 9 from a slightly different angle. Does Luke tell the story of Paul's conversion in such a way as to essentially make the story a resurrection story? We think this is a fun but also insightful way to understand Paul's conversion story.

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In which John and David discuss what Jesus says to Paul. Unsurprisingly we think there's some layers to this part of the narrative of Paul's conversion that are worth exploring.

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In which John and David continue to explore when Paul meets Jesus. In this episode we consider the irony around some aspects of the story - the hunter is the hunted, the pious one learns he doesn't quite know what's going on, the zealot is invited to think differently about zeal.

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In which John and David explore the moment when Paul meets Jesus. As you might expect we are going to take a few episodes on this one, but here we set out our introduction to what's going on with Paul as he encounters Jesus on the road to Damascus.

The Tom Wright book we mentioned in the episode was "What St Paul Really Said"

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