History
John Newton captained slave ships. A storm at sea in 1748 began his conversion, but he did not leave the trade immediately — a fact…
Grace · Conversion · The Cross
Newton · Wilberforce
History
The man who fell in the road
Acts 9:1–19
Saul is not seeking. He is breathing threats, papers in hand, and the risen Christ knocks him into the dust with a question: why are you persecuting me? Three days of darkness, a reluctant Ananias, scales like falling, and a commission. Conversion here is not self-improvement. It is an interruption so complete he will spend the rest of his life explaining it. The church’s first great missionary begins as its enemy.
How you’d preach it
Use when people think they have to clean up before they can be called, or when a church has already decided who cannot change.
- Grace
- Calling
- Conversion
Acts 9
Acts 9:1–19