This one caught my attention so I did some checking. One site I found is Daily Bible Study by a Canadian man from Ontario. Then I looked a few sites that were in the top twenty. How can I find one that is authoritative? That really deals with what God’s Word says so we don’t get into some weird or misleading doctrines. And since I can only budget about 20-30 hours in a week for study and sermon preparation. To be sure there is just as much false and erroneous information as there are helpful sites contained in those results. Adding just one more word to the search, the word “Biblical” it reduced the results to 197000. I don’t read that fast! So that was out of the question. (google) immediately reported that there are 539,000 results for that word: If I read one result per second it would only take me 149 hours or so to read them all. Other than if you don’t have access to the internet of course.įor example, I took a moment to refresh my memory on where Capernaum was since Matthew seemed to think it was important to mention it when telling this particular part of HIStory. And in the internet age we really don’t have an excuse for not knowing. When we are telling someone HIStory we do well to study and understand what it is we are talking about. To see all of today’s study questions, click here. And when she was baptized, with her household, she besought us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.Let’s begin with reading HIStory this morning. The Lord opened her heart to give heed to what was said by Paul. One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. "We remained in this city some days and on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together. It's important to note that her subsequent conversion to Christianity was made possible only after "The Lord opened her heart to give heed to what was said by Paul" (see Ears To Hear): dyed purple cloth, an expensive commodity in ancient times). Lydia was a believer in God, a Jewish proselyte, a "seller of purple cloth" (i.e. Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a direct voyage to Samothrace, and the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is the leading city of the district of Macedonia, and a Roman colony." (Acts 16:7-12 RSV) And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing beseeching him and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." "And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. ![]() "And when they had come opposite Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them so, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. Turkey is in Asia, and Paul apparently intended to concentrate in the same area on his second missionary journey (see Paul's Second Missionary Journey), but Jesus willed otherwise - The Lord decided that it was time for the Gospel to go across The Aegean Sea to Europe: Paul's First Missionary Journey was limited to Asia Minor, which corresponds to Turkey today. Although she is mentioned only briefly in the Scriptures, she holds a prominent place in Bible History - Lydia is the first recorded Christian in Europe to be converted by Paul, and her home became the place where the subsequent first church (the literal Biblical meaning of church is called out ones, the people) in Europe gathered to worship. Lydia was originally from Thyatira (where one of The Seven Churches of Asia were later located), but was a resident in Philippi, in Greece, when the apostle Paul travelled there.
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