INTRODUCTION [PRAYER] My parents taught me about God and Jesus as a child. When I was ten years old, I decided to submit to God, repent of my sins, and…
Baptism is a command by Jesus, whom we have chosen to follow and obey. Matt 28:19-20 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of…
This is the last conversion experience of the Bible. Here we learn about some fellow followers of Jesus and why the disciples are baptized. Paul is in Ephesus at this…
As mentioned in The Old Covenant, I was baptized when I was ten but didn’t quite have a handle on everything. Then, more than a decade later, a man approached…
In The New Covenant (Part 1), we learned what the New Covenant was about, why it came to be, and what the terms were. While discussing these terms (Belief, Confess,…
We are hot off the heels of Lydia and her family being baptized. If you’ll remember, Paul receives a vision and heads to Macedonia. Long story short, he never makes…
Now, this account of conversion is relatively small—just four verses. We will learn why Lydia is Baptized in a moment (Acts 16:11-15), but first, let’s go back to a couple…
As we move through the book of Acts, we read about another Centurion. The last Centurion we met amazed Jesus (Matthew 8:5-13) – and that’s a big deal considering Jesus…