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What do you say when you say goodby? When an apostle says farewell and addresses leaders of the next spiritual generation for what he thinks is the last time, a “farewell discourse” is in order. As Paul reviews his past as a model for the Ephesian elders’ future work and charges them as

From the moment the military tribune handcuffs Paul in the court of the Gentiles, the apostle conducts his ministry as a prisoner awaiting final trial and verdict. This last quarter of Acts, parallel to the passion narrative of Luke’s Gospel, provides a realistic and necessary balance to Luke’s

The third missionary journey displays Paul at the height of his apostolic powers, fulfilling his calling as a guarantor of the church’s gospel and its mission. Through Paul God proclaims a powerful gospel and performs extraordinary miracles, the signs of an apostle. Paul embraces an equally

The prevailing philosophies of the West’s post-Christian era—secular humanism’s scientific empiricism and the New Age pantheistic type of postmodernism—are remarkably similar to the Epicureanism and Stoicism Paul encountered at Athens. Paul’s speech becomes a model for how to witness to the

Part of St. Patrick’s benediction, “May the wind be always at your back,” well suits the experience of the Pauline missionary band at the beginning of its second journey. The wind is, of course, the wind of the Spirit, and it blows in some surprising directions. Hearing how this push west into