In the book of Acts, Luke often calls Christianity, “The Way” of the Lord (9:2; 19:9; 22:4; 24:14, 22). This was an appropriate term because it accurately described the Christians beliefs, practices and preaching of Jesus Christ as “The Way”!

This “Way” was actually at the source of the great riot recorded in this chapter.

Read Reflect The city of Corinth is situated on the isthmus that joins the Peloponnese – the large peninsula in the south east of mainland Greece – to the rest of the mainland. The people who lived there in Paul’s time were very different from those in Thessalonica. The ancient city had been completely destroyed […]

Read Reflect “I beg you to get along with one another” (v 10). Sound familiar? After Paul had left them the Christians in Corinth started to argue with one another. One of the matters of contention was which leader you claimed allegiance to. Apollos was a Jew from Alexandria, with a Greek name, well educated […]

Read Reflect The Christian faith is not a philosophy. You don’t have to be clever to understand it. So Paul warned the Corinthians, don’t brag, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth. […]

Read Reflect This is one of those passages that takes your breath away. When we become Christians we learn to think in a completely new way. Ordinary human wisdom is warped, because it comes from fallible and sinful human beings, who position themselves at the centre of the universe. To them, Jesus Christ was nothing […]

Read Reflect What a splendid psalm for us to take and flesh out with our own particular circumstances  – or those of someone else whom we’re praying for. The psalm is vague in all its details, so that we can easily fill in our own. The first verse in the CEV sounds a bit flat […]

Read Reflect Have you ever heard someone tattle about one of the employees to a person in authority? The comment could have been made to you or even made about you to the boss. I have personally experienced this type of situation in my professional career when I was a director at a company that […]