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PV Bible Alive
This podcast will take you on a journey through the Bible. It takes the Scriptures, beginning in Genesis, explains what they meant when they were written, and what they mean to you today. In the end, we hope you discover what the Bible says about itself; that it is "sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit....and is a discern-er of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
PV Bible Alive
Acts 18:1-17 part 1 God's Gifts of Encouragement
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Bruce Hays
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Season 20
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Episode 34
Part 1: When Paul entered the city of Corinth as recorded in Acts chapter 18, he had hit a low point emotionally. He had been forced out of previous towns before he could solidify the new believers there. He had been dismissed as a fool in Athens. And now he enters the city of Corinth, the "sin city" of the ancient world. The whole place was given over to sexual immorality.
He had to have wondered if he was just throwing seed into the wind trying to share Jesus Christ there. But God stepped in and gave him 5 gifts of encouragement to carry him over the tide of his malaise. And God offers those same 5 gifts to every Christian when they are depressed.