Acts 27: Shipwrecked!

The Rev. Dr. Jason Wagner, pastor of Hope Lutheran Church in High Ridge, MO, joins the Rev. Dr. Phil Booe to study Acts 27. The Apostle Paul is taken as a prisoner to Rome to stand trial before Caesar. A tempest suddenly ravages the vessel, testing both crew and prisoner. As the ship battles fierce winds and crashing waves, tensions rise, and hope wavers. Amidst the chaos, Paul receives assurance from God that they will be safe, and so he offers comfort and guidance to his companions even as a shipwreck looms on the horizon. The Book of Acts takes us back to the earliest days of Christianity, unveiling the incredible acts of the apostles and the growth of the early church. Acts offers a firsthand account how the Apostles and Jesus’ disciples respond to his death and resurrection. It makes us witnesses to the beginning of fulfilling Jesus’s command to spread the Gospel from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. We encounter miracles and wonders, we see the church struggling to organize itself in the absence of Jesus, and we learn of the trials and tribulations the early Christians faced in a world that rejected them.