Acts 27:1 When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, they transferred Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort, named Julius.
A little bit of biblical history here: the apostle Paul traveled all through what is now Turkey and Greece spreading the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ and founding churches. He did this in places we know mostly because of the letters he then wrote to them later: Thessalonica, Philippi, Corinth, etc. He wrote the book of Romans as a kind of introductory letter. He'd never been to Rome but wanted to go. He never quite made it, at least in the way he planned. But God still worked good from a bad circumstance.
Paul got himself arrested for his preaching. Because he was a Roman citizen he had the right to appeal his prosecution all the way to the emperor in Rome. So he did that. So eventually Paul made it to Rome (the beginning of the journey is what we read above), but not as a free man. God took the awful circumstance of Paul's arrest and made it possible for him still to reach Rome, preaching the gospel to his fellow prisoners and to his captors.
Whatever bad situation is happening in your life, God is able to provide good news out of it. Even if you're in prison.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
Our summer worship service begins this coming weekend (May 28/29) with Saturday evening at 5 and Sunday morning at 9. This Saturday only, bring your bicycles and tricycles and other wheeled toys for a special blessing following worship.
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