Jesus wins. That's not a spoiler, that's the whole point.

There's a strange thing that happens when you already know how a story ends, you actually enjoy it more, not less. Studies on this back it up. And that's exactly the confidence running underneath this message. We know how the story ends. Jesus wins. So when the story gets messy along the way, and it gets messy fast in Acts 18, that's not a reason to worry, it's a reason to keep watching closely.

Last week Paul got run out of Berea and landed in Athens, a city he never planned to visit. This week he lands in Corinth, wealthy, diverse, morally notorious, the same city that later gets two of the most unflattering letters in the entire New Testament written to it. And in the middle of all that mess, Jesus tells Paul something remarkable in a vision: keep speaking, don't be silent,  ...