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Joel discusses Acts 17, focusing on Paul's message to the people of Athens about their spiritual longing and the nature of idols.

This week Joel walked us through Acts 17, where Paul stands on Mars Hill in Athens and, rather than mocking the city's countless idols, aches for it as a place of people starving for a God they cannot name. We are showed that an idol is not the absence of longing but longing that hasn't found its true home, and that God had been introducing Himself to Athens for six hundred years through their own poets and nameless altars before Paul ever arrived to fill in the name of Jesus. We are left wit...

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