Attentive Hearkening

The older I get, the more my hearing is impaired by background noise.

Noisy rooms are the worst, and if I am nodding and smiling at you, you can be fairly confident that I can’t hear what you’re saying. 

Ephesus was a noisy city. 

Besides the regular hustle and bustle of city life, there was also the temple worship of Artemis and the practicing of magic spells adding to the cacophony. 

The Apostle Paul had to put forth supreme effort just to be heard, as he took the Gospel to bo...