They called him a babbler. It wasn’t a compliment, either: spermalogos, which isn’t quite what it sounds like in English, but almost. Seed picker. Word scrapper. Someone who spouts childish, raggedy ...
Preaching at the Areopagus, they laughed at him. Only a few were converted. Evangelically speaking, Paul’s famous sermon given before the good and the great of Athens was not all that successful.
Paul’s Epistle to the Romans has been widely regarded as the most prominent peak throughout the range of Scripture. It is dense and broad-gauge enough to stand as a theological treatise in its own ...
While Paul was preaching this sermon in the church which was in the house of Onesiphorus, a certain virgin named Thecla (whose mother's name was Theoclia, and who was betrothed to a man named Thamyris ...
Preaching to academics is not always an easy job for any homilist or evangelist and I speak from personal experience here. In Chapter 17 of the Acts of the Apostles we read the account of St. Paul ...