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Acts Study - Session 1
Published: 1/19/09 3:06 PMby: Larry ReynoldsACTS STUDY – SESSION 1 (Introduction and Acts 1:1-5) Importance Acts is a book of beginnings. Just as Genesis tells of the beginning of God’s physical creation, Acts tells of the beginning of God’s spiritual creation, the church. It is a remarkable story of t... -
Acts Study - Session 1
Published: 1/19/09 3:06 PMby: Larry ReynoldsACTS STUDY – SESSION 1 (Introduction and Acts 1:1-5) Importance Acts is a book of beginnings. Just as Genesis tells of the beginning of God’s physical creation, Acts tells of the beginning of God’s spiritual creation, the church. It is a remarkable story of t... -
Acts Study - Session 1
Published: 1/19/09 3:06 PMby: Larry ReynoldsACTS STUDY – SESSION 1 (Introduction and Acts 1:1-5) Importance Acts is a book of beginnings. Just as Genesis tells of the beginning of God’s physical creation, Acts tells of the beginning of God’s spiritual creation, the church. It is a remarkable story of t... -
Acts Study - Session 2
Published: 1/19/09 7:58 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 2 (Acts 1:6-26) In our last session we looked we briefly overviewed the background to Acts. We saw that the book plays a key role in the New Testament, serving as a bridge between the gospels and the epistles. The appropriate title is “Acts of the... -
Acts - Session 3
Published: 1/30/09 8:58 AMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 3 (Acts 2:1-13) Acts 1 closes with the disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem waiting for the fulfillment of a promise from God (Acts 1:4). In chapter 1 they received their final instructions from Jesus (Acts 1:8) and witnessed His ascension back into heaven (Acts ... -
Acts - Session 4
Published: 2/5/09 10:42 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 4 (Acts 2:14-36) In our last session we began looking at the key event in the book of Acts – the infusion of the Holy Spirit into the lives of the followers of Jesus. It is not that the Holy Spirit came into being on the Day of Pentecost. He is pa... -
Acts Study - Session 5
Published: 2/12/09 5:03 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 5 (Acts 2:37-47) For the past several sessions we have been focusing on Acts 2 which tells the story of the infusion of the Holy Spirit into the lives of the followers of Jesus. This will be our third and final session on this chapter. While we cannot d... -
Acts Study - Session 6
Published: 2/20/09 3:54 AMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 6 (Acts 3:1-26) Acts 2 ends with a beautiful description of the church functioning as the church was designed by God to function. There was a deep reverence for God, a demonstration of miraculous power, a genuine sense of community, meaningful worship, and ... -
Acts Study - Session 7
Published: 2/26/09 9:45 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 7 (Acts 4:1-35) In our last session we saw that the idyllic early days of the church were soon interrupted by the attacks of Satan from both within and without the new fellowship. Beginning in Acts 4, we encounter a series of events in which the young church... -
Acts Study - Session 7
Published: 2/26/09 9:45 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 7 (Acts 4:1-35) In our last session we saw that the idyllic early days of the church were soon interrupted by the attacks of Satan from both within and without the new fellowship. Beginning in Acts 4, we encounter a series of events in which the young church... -
Acts Study - Session 9
Published: 3/14/09 10:12 AMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 9 (Acts 6:1-15) Chapters 3 – 8 in Acts introduce us to a series of events which severely tested the young Christian fellowship. While each of the attacks on the young church in these chapters involved people—some from outside the fellowship and s... -
Acts Study - Session 10
Published: 3/26/09 2:14 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 10 (Acts 7:1-8:3) God does not call His people to a life of ease. There are always difficulties and challenges to be faced. Anyone who becomes a committed follower of Jesus expecting the path to be easy is in for a rude awakening. Jesus repeatedly ... -
Acts Study - Session 11
Published: 4/2/09 1:57 PMby: LarryThe book of Acts tells the story of the birth, development, and growth of the church. The church described in the book of Acts is very different from the institution we call “church” in our culture in several ways: · &nb... -
Acts Study - Session 12
Published: 4/17/09 10:14 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 11 (Acts 8:4-24) The book of Acts tells the story of the expanding witness of the early church. We have seen that Acts 1:8 is the thesis sentence of the book and provides us a broad outline or table of contents of what is to follow. In Acts 1:8 Jesus to... -
Acts - Session 13
Published: 4/30/09 10:59 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 13 (Acts 9:1-31) Some events in life are so dramatic and life-changing that you never forget where you were and what you were doing when you first heard news of the event. Of course, we all have personal events in our lives that fall into that category, most... -
Acts - Session 14
Published: 5/7/09 11:14 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – Session 14 (Acts 9:32-43) In the first part of Acts, the prominent character of the narrative is Simon Peter. To this point in the story we have come across Peter on numerous occasions. For example: Acts 1:13 – Peter is listed first, indicating his... -
Acts - Session 15
Published: 5/14/09 10:59 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – Session 15 (Acts 10:1-23a) We began looking in our last session at a rather large section of the book of Acts which deals with some of the travels of Peter. This section of Acts focuses on the ministry of Peter in four places: Lydda – Acts 9:32-35 ... -
Acts - Session 16
Published: 5/21/09 11:27 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – Session 16 (Acts 10:23b-11:18) In this session we are going to continue looking at the story of the meeting between Peter, the Jewish apostle, and Cornelius, the Gentile centurion in the Roman army. In our last session we saw that the importance of this meeting is h... -
Acts - Session 17
Published: 5/28/09 10:03 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 17 Acts 11:19-30 Acts 1:8 (“…but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth”) is the thesis sentence ... -
Acts - Session 18
Published: 6/19/09 11:39 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 18 Acts 12:1-25 Acts 12 marks a new era in the persecution of the Christians. To this point in time the Romans had pretty much taken a hands-off attitude toward Christianity. The Romans tended to few Christianity as nothing more than a sect of Judaism.&... -
Acts - Session 19
Published: 6/28/09 10:21 PMby: LarryACTS STUDY – SESSION 19 Paul’s First Missionary Journey – Part 1 Acts 13 marks a major turning point in the book of Acts. Four major changes occur in Acts 13 that are carried throughout the remainder of the book: The primary focus of the witness of the church ...
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