Timothy Ford
Saturday morning cinco de mayo with things I like and things I do not like. Do not like includes a circling low pressure system down between Florida and Cuba, centered on the southeast end of Cuba, about a month early for these things to be showing up. Like includes a gorgeous 1940 Ford DeLuxe tudor sedan. No, that's love not just like. Our years growing up, the Guy family next door had that car in maroon ...
and predawn visit to 7H porch just as a tug pushes barges by shadowed by a shrimpboat with the moon high overhead. Picture's not so clear, I guess you had to be there.
All of a sudden we are encapsulated, is an apt word, in fog. Finally, I'll take a circling low pressure system before a smoking, erupting, spewing volcano any day.
Meantime, here's TGBC reading for today as Paul moves into his second missionary journey and Timothy gets good news: owing to his Jewish mother, he is entitled to a bris. Early in this narrative is where the first person plural "we" shows up that many readers, hearers, and scholars believe signifies the presence of Luke himself on the journey. On that matter, I am ambivalent; you may decide for yourself.
Acts 16:1-15
Timothy Joins Paul and Silas
Paul went on also to Derbe and to Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him; and he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went from town to town, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith and increased in numbers daily.
Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia
They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. When they had come opposite Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them; so, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.
During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’ When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.
The Conversion of Lydia
We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some days. On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there. A certain woman named Lydia, a worshipper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, ‘If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.’ And she prevailed upon us.
and predawn visit to 7H porch just as a tug pushes barges by shadowed by a shrimpboat with the moon high overhead. Picture's not so clear, I guess you had to be there.
All of a sudden we are encapsulated, is an apt word, in fog. Finally, I'll take a circling low pressure system before a smoking, erupting, spewing volcano any day.
Meantime, here's TGBC reading for today as Paul moves into his second missionary journey and Timothy gets good news: owing to his Jewish mother, he is entitled to a bris. Early in this narrative is where the first person plural "we" shows up that many readers, hearers, and scholars believe signifies the presence of Luke himself on the journey. On that matter, I am ambivalent; you may decide for yourself.
Acts 16:1-15
Timothy Joins Paul and Silas
Paul went on also to Derbe and to Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him; and he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went from town to town, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith and increased in numbers daily.
Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia
They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. When they had come opposite Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them; so, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.
During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’ When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.
The Conversion of Lydia
We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some days. On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there. A certain woman named Lydia, a worshipper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, ‘If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.’ And she prevailed upon us.