Emphasis Preaching Journal

Through all the accounts in Acts of Paul's missionary journeys, there is a clear sense of God working in the background. A man of Macedonia appears to him in a dream, pleading with him to bring the gospel to that land. Paul sails there, and a little while later, by a Macedonian riverbank, he is led to the pious and wealthy merchant, Lydia, who will be instrumental in establishing the church in Philippi.