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2 days ago · The Book of Acts is to be thought of as the direct continuation of Luke’s Gospel, with the exalted Christ as its solely dominant figure (Ac 1:1). The book does not pretend to be a history of the Early Church or even a history of early missions; it would be woefully incomplete as either of the two. It is the continuation of the story of the ...
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. KJV, YLT, DARBY. Verse Concepts. Lev 25:53.
Mar 14, 2024 · The book of Acts shows how God essentially took a group of fisherman and commoners and used them to turn the world upside down (Acts 17:6). God took a Christian-hating murderer and transformed him into history’s greatest Christian evangelist, the author of almost half the books of the New Testament.
The Book of Acts is a fast-moving historical account of the first three decades of the church. Acts begins in Jerusalem just after Jesus' resurrection, recounts how the Gospel reached what are Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, and Malta today, and closes with the apostle Paul's two year ministry in Rome.
- Dr. Luke The Historian
- The History of The Early Church
- First Century Church Growth
- Prescriptive Verses Descriptive
- Book of Acts Two?
- Conclusion
There are modern historians that declare Luke’s gospel and the Book of Acts to be one of historical veracity and accuracy. Both Luke’s gospel and the Book of Acts vividly display times, events, and names with an extraordinary precision that makes many declare Luke one of history’s greatest historians. We know he is the author of the Book of Acts bu...
As we’ve already said, Luke wrote the Book of Acts and the purpose was probably so we’d have a historical record of how the church started and how it grew and what the church did through men and women of God by the Spirit of God however, the church may have predated the Day of Pentecost because we see Jesus already mentioning “the church” in the go...
How did the first century church grow so rapidly? The answer is as easy to find as Acts 2:42 which says the church “devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers” and they were “attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous...
There are different sections of the Bible like the poetry found in the Book of Psalms and even though they’re written for musical accompaniment, they do have wisdom within them. The Book of Proverbs and the Book of James belongs to the section called wisdom literature. The gospels are eye witness accounts of Jesus earthly ministry. The epistles or ...
It is my personal belief that since the Book of Acts ended having no conclusion or ending (Acts 28:30-31), the Book of Acts Two is being written today and many like Martin Luther, John Calvin, Polycarp, the prince of preachers, Charles Spurgeon and many more you can probably think of will be in it. Of course, most of us will never show up in a book...
Someday the whole earth will be full of the knowledge of God and the person who doesn’t know much about God will be deemed cursed. Habakkuk writes of this time when “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea” (2:14) “And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it togeth...
Discover how the small Jesus community grew into a multiethnic international movement in the book of Acts in the Bible. Explore the book’s design and key themes with videos, podcasts, and more from BibleProject™.
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Sep 6, 2017 · The book of Acts is an important book for understanding the actions of the apostles, mostly Paul and Peter, after Jesus's ascension into Heaven. It is an important book in understanding how we can be directed by the Holy Spirit and the role of Jesus' lessons in our lives.
