This is one of my entries for the Abingdon Creative Preaching Annual for 2014. Acts 17:16-34 Paul shares the Good News of the Gospel with a crowd of Athenians in the marketplace and his rhetoric is masterful. He doesn’t insult them. He doesn’t scare them. He invites them to see something familiar in a new…

Acts 17:22-31 And Paul suggests that one of the reasons we were created by this now known God was so we “would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us”. I love this. What a gift. How would we live life differently…