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Sermons by Wade Allen (Page 22)
I can identify with Paul here in Acts 20 as he is saying goodbye to the leaders from Ephesus—a place where he had spent at least three years of his life pouring into these brothers and sisters. Paul knew that he could not take the time to see everyone again, but I assume that the emotional turmoil that it would cause would have been equally difficult. So Paul had the Ephesian church leadership come to Miletus to meet with him there. There is a great deal from this passage that could be our focus, but we will spend our time examining Paul’s final encouragement to them.
In Acts 20, Paul continues his travels on his third missionary journey. Very little information is given about these stops in his journey—save for one interesting story about a young man from Troas who fell asleep while the church members were having an all-night discussion with Paul about Scripture. In this study, we focus not…
Paul and the believers in Ephesus were experiencing true repentance and its effects. True repentance always has an effect—on both the life of the one repenting and to all those around that one. This morning, we hope to examine some of these effects of repentance with the goal of challenging ourselves to experience true repentance…
In our study together last week, Paul had just arrived in Ephesus on his third missionary endeavor. As was his custom, Paul began teaching and preaching Jesus of Nazareth as the promised Messiah in the synagogue there in Ephesus. In our study today, we’re going to take some time to note the impact that Paul…
In our previous studies in the Book of Acts, Paul was in the midst of his second missionary journey when he arrived in Corinth and ended up staying for 18 months of fruitful ministry. But now the time had come for Paul to move on to be able to complete this journey and begin anew.…