My wife's step-brother is a self-proclaimed atheist. For some reason, he has begun reading through the Bible book by book. Please pray that, as the Bereans who believed because of the scriptures, he would believe in Jesus.

I'm sure some of you followed the conversation on this blog about baptism. It seems to me that in all of these passages,  water baptism always follows belief. What do you think of this?

I thought this verse was kinda funny:

Don't you think thats kinda redundant?

The rest of Acts is about Paul going to Jerusalem and subsequently to Rome. A lot of things happened on the way, but the most important, it seems, were his defenses of the gospel to the authorities. He spent years in chains just waiting to give his defense of the gospel only to go back into chains for a couple more years, again waiting for a chance to defend the gospel. That gives a lot more credit to Paul when he tells us to "be ready in season and out of season."
May we be like Paul and be ready to be on trial "for the hope and resurrection of the dead!"