by Matthew Borgstrom | Dec 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
What does your life consist of? When Christ says, “I came that my people may have life, and have it abundantly,” is this the life we are hoping in? This life that came about through his death. This life that makes us more like him now and will...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Dec 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
There are a couple of biblical realities that have not only been evident on the pages of Acts, but they are realities we might have experienced ourselves or may perhaps experience in the future. On the one hand, Jesus promised hostility from the world simply due...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Dec 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s a great danger to try to attach the name of Jesus to one’s personal ministry without being really linked to him, which is obvious by one’s refusal to do what he has said, namely with regards to ministry methods. What’s clear in the book of Acts...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Dec 4, 2018 | Biblical Fruit, Holy Spirit
The group found at the beginning of Acts 19 were stuck in the time, having received only the teaching of John the Baptist and not being familiar with the finished work of Jesus Christ in all its fullness. Upon the completion of God’s revelation, the NT knows of no...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Nov 26, 2018 | Equipping the Saints, Faithfulness, Obedience, Pleasing Christ
So upon reaching the end of Acts 18:23, we have seen God’s protection of the gospel through the encouragement of the messengers. The encouragement came first through human partnership in vv.1-5. What a privilege it is to have a spouse who is a partner in the gospel...
