Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So we'll go ahead and get started.

And we'll get started.

Just a few moments, we'll be picking up at the beginning of Acts of the Apostles Chapter 19.

And I get to say a slightly different version of this this time, because as we speak,

the first Bible study on the Book of Acts is online.

I don't post them.

They're edited and posted, but it was just posted last night.

So everyone in this room, not just people listening to this recording, can go online and

listen now and listen to the first Bible study of the book of Acts and the introduction

to the book there.

To get us cut up to where we are right now.

We last time read about sort of the completion of St. Paul's second missionary journey in which right at the end he visited for the third time some of the churches he had

originally planted with St. Barnabas, and then

returned to Antioch, and expressed his intent to return to Jerusalem in time for Paska, time for the Passover.

And right at the end of the last time we read for the first time a little more information about Apollos,

who was a convert from Alexandria in Egypt, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who had heard the gospel.

But as of when we met him last time, had been baptized by St. John the forerunner, St. John the Baptist,

but hadn't been received

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