Category: Acts for a 21st c. Church
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Damascus Road: Witness into all the World
Witness from Jerusalem to Damascus Of all places the Apostles would not have ever thought the risen Christ would anoint yet another Apostle, a road to Damascus likely would have been the last place to come to mind. Jesus had led them to places beyond Galilee (now formally a part of Syria under the administration…
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Acts 8:1 Syria – Strategic Map into all of the world
Our cover photo may look like an intelligence map for a modern military operation in Syria. That’s right. War in Syria is hardly anything new under the sun. So you ask, what does this have to do with a first century Syria of the Roman Empire and Jesus’ great commission? Some text on Talk of…
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What hinders me from being baptized?
“Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?” It’s a life-changing question the Kandake’s official asks Philip after reading about the Messiah Jesus from Isaiah. Perhaps you have asked yourself this same question about conversion to Christ. ACTS of a Queen’s servant on the road to Gaza If you have not read our previous scene…
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Philip: Evangelizing Christ’s Sheep Beyond Gaza
How important is Gaza to Philip’s Evangelizing Mission? What does Gaza have to do with, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” and evangelizing Christ Jesus? Quote of Jesus from the Gospel of Mark 16:15 We’ll talk of JESUS’ evangelism model begun in the Apostles and now a command to…
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Philip: Preaching to Good and Bad Samaritans
ACTS of Philip the Evangelist Φίλιππος Philip who? Jesus chose Twelve Apostles at the beginning His ministry in Galilee. The Apostle Philip was one of the Twelve. Philip has been an Apostle for about five years now. The year c. A.D. 32 or 33. When Simon Peter healed a lame man and spoke at Solomon’s…
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Stephen: Witness and Martyr
Many of us remain fascinated with the testimony of a witness impacting the outcome of a trial. μάρτυς – martys – a witness WE are simply spectators at a trial, not a familiar rerun of a fictional courtroom scene by Erle Stanley Gardner six decades ago, but an actual ancient trial of an accused defendant,…
