Daily Devotions - Jesus and the Resurrection

Daily Devotions - Jesus and the Resurrection

From Lutheran Hour Canada Radio On Demand by Lutheran Laymen's League of Canada

May 5, 2026 · 3 min

About this episode

This episode discusses Paul's experience in Athens as he preached about Jesus and the resurrection.

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.” Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new. So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said … “The God who made the world and everything in it … commands all people everywhere to repent, because He has fixed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed; and of this He has given assurance to all by raising Him from the dead.” (Acts…

Topics covered

  • resurrection
  • Paul's teachings
  • Athens
  • idolatry
  • philosophy
  • Christianity
  • repentance

Keywords

  • Paul
  • Athens
  • resurrection
  • Areopagus
  • idols
  • philosophers
  • Christian teaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Areopagus

Books & works: Acts

Places: Athens

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