Two more columns of mine are up at MWR: Discord resolved (looking at the beginning of Acts 6, including the stoning of Stephen) and A changed life (reflecting on Paul's encounter with Jesus outside Damascus in Acts 9). These are two in a thirteen week series focusing on a survey of the New Testament through the "lens of community."
So Paul took his stand in the open space at the Areopagus and laid it out for them: "I'm here to introduce you to this God.... He doesn't play hide-and-seek with us. He's not remote; he's near. We live and move in him, can't get away from him!" ~Acts 17