Tag: paul

  • 1 Corinthians 14: Words & Women

    Paul returns from his celebration of love to the gift of prophecy, speaking truths, and tongues, utterances in other languages or unknown words. Paul says that prophecy instructs and consoles the Church while praying in tongues encourages the spirit. There are groups within Christianity today that either over-emphasize or deny the use of tongues in…

  • Acts 9: On the road 

    How Saul is at the beginning of this chapter to how he ends is like night and day. He starts out breathing death threats about the men and women who follow Christ. He plans a trip to the Temple in Jerusalem to get papers giving him permission to go to the synagogues (branch worship locations)…