Dear Mosaic friends,

We’re nearing the end of the book of Acts, and we’re spending a lot of time with Paul during his unjust incarceration in Caesarea. It would be easy to dismiss these last chapters in Acts as little more than a mostly dry and sometimes dramatic account of courtroom proceedings like an episode of Law and Order. Why would Luke, our narrator, devote nearly a quarter of his account of the early church to the arrest and imprisonment of Paul?

As we will see, Paul’s bondage didn’t stop him from sharing the Gospel. Jesus knew the kind of man Paul was when He confronted him on the road to Damascus, and He chose him precisely because he had the talent and temperament necessary for the task to which he dedicated his life right up to the very end. You could say he was “created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for to do”!

I look forward to studying Acts 25 with you and gleaning from it the lessons the Lord has for us!

We’ll see you this Sunday,

Ron Miller