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One-Issue Politics, One-Issue Marriage, and the Humane Society Pondering One-Issue Politics and Cruelty To Animals Investigating dog life in Minnesota has solidified my decision to vote against those who endorse the right to abortion. So then what is my response to the charge of being a one-issue voter? No endorsement of any single issue qualifies … Continue reading “02 ONE-ISSUE POLITICS…”

The Catacombs—Heb_11:38 Although we possess no very satisfactory information respecting St. Paul’s career subsequent to the close of the “Acts of the Apostles,” we are not in want of information of peculiar interest respecting the early condition of that church—the church in the imperial city—which, as its importance demanded, occupied a large place in his … Continue reading ““840. THE CATACOMBS—HEBREWS 11:38””

The Shipwreck—Act_27:27 to Act_28:10 Persons upon a tempestuous sea in a vessel slowly sinking under them, are not wont to turn a deaf ear to the voice that gives assurance of hope. The voice that was disregarded in the calm safety of the Fair Havens, is heeded well amid the dreads of the stormy and … Continue reading ““838. THE SHIPWRECK—ACTS 27:27-28:10””

Melita to Rome—Act_28:11-31 Three weeks spent in Melita brought round the time when the ancients considered the navigation of the seas practicable, and Julius secured for his soldiers and prisoners a passage to Italy in another corn-ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the island, and which was called the Castor and Pollux, twin demigods, … Continue reading ““839. MELITA TO ROME—ACTS 28:11-31””

King Agrippa—Acts 25-26 The new governor of Judea, Porcius Festus, though not without faults, was a far better, and more honest man than his predecessor; and with some little abatement, arising from his wish to ingratiate himself with the nation newly come under his rule, his proceedings bore the stamp of straightforwardness and firmness, which … Continue reading ““836. KING AGRIPPA—ACTS 25-26””

The Voyage—Act_27:1-26 It having been determined to send Paul to Rome, a ship was soon found in which he and other prisoners were embarked, under the charge of a centurion of the imperial cohort, named Julius, whose courteous attention to the apostle on all occasions may seem to intimate, that he had formed the acquaintance … Continue reading ““837. THE VOYAGE—ACTS 27:1-26””

Acts 22-28 : Fifty-Second Week Autor: JOHN KITTO

A Good Conscience—Act_22:30 to Act_23:11 As Lysias saw no other way of obtaining information for the regulation of his own proceedings, he determined to produce Paul the next morning before the Sanhedrin, to ascertain what they had to allege against him. He was accordingly released from the chains which had bound him to one or … Continue reading ““834. A GOOD CONSCIENCE—ACTS 22:30-23:11””

Felix—Act_23:12 to Act_24:26 Josephus relates that, in the time of Herod the Great, ten men—whose conduct he plainly regards with no displeasure—bound themselves by solemn oaths to assassinate the king, whom they deemed an apostate; and that, when their plot was discovered, they maintained to the last that the conspiracy they had sworn to was … Continue reading ““835. FELIX—ACTS 23:12-24:26””

Forewarnings—Act_21:1-17 The vessel in which Paul had embarked touched next at Coos, the largest of several small islands (the Sporades), off the coast of Caria, and the birth-place of Hippocrates the physician. The island of Rhodes, at which they next touched, looks like a large piece broken off from the south-west corner of Asia Minor, … Continue reading ““831. FOREWARNINGS—ACTS 21:1-17””