podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/cf588e42/double-down-on-this-no-51-acts Somewhere in the middle of the airplane I sat, winging my way west to Southern California ... right after take off, I got out my pink Filament Bible  1  and started reading further in Acts, when I noticed the guy across the aisle was reading his Bible too . What?! That was a first on an airplane...and I liked it.  hmmm...   And then, from the smiling part of my brain, I recall one morning at the gym...

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/298ec333/gamechanger-he-is-no-50-acts What's the point? When I read a passage of Scripture, I endeavor to determine the main point-- including what I learn about God,  what He might have me apply to myself and readers near and far. As we turn the page in Luke's rendering of the spread of the gospel in Acts 18 and 19, it would be easy to miss that Paul is embarking on his third and final missionary journey. Reading this passage multiple...

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/250d6c37/may-this-be-you-and-me Does this  W o R D  describe you?    I remember a day I was kinda putzing in the kitchen with two of my boys nearby, and I turned and asked them,  ' What are you devoted to ?'   And they did what you would likely do . . . they turned and looked at me and said, 'What?!'  Partially because the question came seemingly 'out of the blue'  but also because the word  devoted   itself seems to have lost much of a...