Tag: acts

  • Breaking NEWS from ACTS 9!

    Good NEWS (the gospel) Even in this 21st century in the year of our Lord, 2022, the Gospel of Jesus Christ has enemies. NO Good News where atheist leaders can prevent it. But any map of the world will reveal MANY roads – paths for Good News to Damascus or ANY other city in the…

    Gospel blocked by Russian Federation - READ Acts 8 anyway
  • σκληροτράχηλος – a stiff-necked people

    I must confess that one of my favorite phrases of conviction today comes from one of several sermons which was not well-received by its audience: Stiff-necked! “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. Acts 7:51 ESV – from Stephen preaching to…

    Statue of Hammurabi in San Francisco _California - a stiff-necked people focused on anything other than God
  • An Apostolic Model: Administration of a Growing Church

    Now that we have defined some key terms of the church (including ‘church’ – ἐκκλησία), we can proceed to examine the administration of disciples following the Lord Jesus Christ (‘Christians). If you missed this defining first post about ACTS 6, you may want to visit some of the secure links included in Ministering to a…

    Acts 6 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, maps of empires impacting the Jews