Where the Bible Comes Alive

Yes, that is how I've felt walking the streets of Athens and wandering around the ancient city of Corinth. The highlight of my time in Greece was reading Acts 17 at Mars Hill and I Corinthians 13 at ancient Corinth. Walking around up here it feels like you might see around the next corner the Apostle Paul speaking to a gathering. Athens, although a modern city today-still gives the ancient feel. We enjoyed our time immensely there. I was thinking today about how God prepared even the city of Athens and all of the Roman empire of Paul's day to help us in our walk with Christ. The problems they had in Corinth or Ephesus, etc. were not unique. In fact they were quite typical. God prepared those cities so we could learn-and so the world could learn about how to walk the life with Christ. May we learn and grow-and be like the Bereans(Central Greece) -who searched the scriptures and lived Holy Separated lives unlike some of the Corinthians who were trying to live their lives apart from the principles of the Word of God. We are now in Cyprus and I hope we can encourage the believers here-like Barnabas-who was from Cyprus and is known as the great encourager. We are praying for brother Howie and his ministry with all of you on Sunday. Please don't be shy with comments!!! The first picture is me at Mars Hill and the second is a pic from Corinth at the great canal built from the Ionian to the Aegean Sea at the Pelopennisius (sorry for the spelling).
22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 29Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. 30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.