Acts 3 presents the power of the name of Christ, Acts 4 exposes the powerlessness of Christ’s enemies to resist it
Acts 4 focuses on the power of the name of Christ in which Peter and John heal a man born lame. But what is the name of Christ?
The Church in Acts 2 is small, immature, and incomplete. But for that very reason it serves as the perfect example of the indispensable first principles upon which everything else must rest. They are a devotion to:
Although we often talk of the ‘offer’ of the gospel, the truth is that, at it’s heart, it’s a demand – God demands that we repent and turn to Christ. That is the substance of Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost. And as he makes that demand he makes two things clear:
The opening verses of Acts 2 describe the seminal event in the book in which God comes to indwell his people as once he indwelt his Temple, and before that the Tabernacle. In doing so Jesus …
What are we remembering on Remembrance Sunday? Nothing less than the true cost of war
Before his ascension the last command Christ gave his followers was to wait because in waiting we learn to:
We look at Romans 4 to see the nature and implications of our justification in Christ
Luke choses, as the turning point in his two-volume series, the moment when Christ ascended into heaven. That decision sets the scene for the rest of the book of Acts. The story starts here because …
As we begin a new series on the book of Acts we begin with an overview of the whole text to find,
What comes next, how does the life of Judah feed into the larger story of God’s redemption?
The climax of Judah’s story comes during his second encounter with Joseph, where he is finally forced to face the inescapable nature of his sin, and accept the just necessity of its punishment. What unfolds shows us …
Judah and his brothers have done something unforgivable – they sold their own brother into slavery in Egypt. So God, in his mercy, compels them to follow him and come face to face with their own sin because …
Judah’s response to his own guilt for selling his brother into slavery is to …
The first glimpse we have of Judah’s life comes in Genesis 37, an appalling sequence of events involving three characters who are, respectively,