Tag: acts

  • The Elder John and Leadership of the Church

    The A.D. First Century Church I tend to look at the Acts of the Apostles and oversimplify the History of the Church, Although Jesus says of Peter, “Upon this Rock I will build My Church,” we tend to miss the frequency of John at Peter’s side throughout the early acts of all of the Apostles…

    John the Elder
  • The Longest Faithful Apostolic Journey of John

    How do you picture the Apostle John? INTRODUCTION to JOHN’s Apostolic Faith late A.D. 20’s at the Jordan river near Bethany John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!” And when the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.…

    John disciple of John the Baptist and Jesus the long faithful journey to Apostle Elder of the Church pictured as young man and old man
  • I have finished my course – the Apostle Paul

    The Apostle now closes his final letter to Timothy noting that his course redirected by Christ on a road to Damascus so many years before — his marathon race of missions into all the world — indeed even the end of the Apostle’s mortal life is at hand. δρόμος – I am spent in the…

    a Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy - map of missionary journeys "I have finished my course. Paul"