After the stoning of Stephen, terrible persecution rose against the followers of Christ so that the church was scattered throughout the...

At the end of Acts 7 , Stephen is tragically and coldly murdered by the leaders of his own people when they stoned him to death after a...

One very powerful benefit provided by the New Testament is that it offers for us a proper interpretation of the old one.  Because...

During the infancy of the church, all believers willfully shared things in common.  The resulting common supply was then redistributed to...

Paul declares in Galatians 3:28  that there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, and that there is neither male nor female....

Although most people may not be able to meaningfully articulate the reason why, we all inherently know that murder is a particularly...

When the spirit of God began to actively work through the apostles of the early church, he performed amazing miracles, signs and wonders...

When we think of angels, we tend to think of how beautiful they are, or how powerful they are, or even how frightening they are. They’re...

Excitement and victory jump from every page of the first four chapters of the book of Acts.  In those chapters, you are almost...

There is clarity in a group once it has been targeted for persecution. That clarity, in turn, becomes unity.  The persecution of Peter...

When the power of God flowed through Peter to publicly heal a lame beggar, it also at the same time, supernaturally arranged the...

Luke, who wrote the Gospel of Luke, but also gave us The Book of Acts, was a great documentarian who captured for us important details in...

H.L. Mencken, the supposed atheist, arguably anti-Christian, certainly controversial, but often brilliant early 20th century American...

In  John 8:31-59, Jesus provoked some palpable tension in the midst of Jewish religious leaders when he shed light on some uncomfortable...

At Pentecost, God reversed the curse placed on humanity at Babel. Because of hubris and sin at Babel, God splintered humanity into...

The human race had three significant rebellions against God in the book of Genesis.  First, they rebelled in the Garden of Eden when they...

A dizzying number of Old Testament prophecies – maybe as many as 300 or more – fulfill themselves in the person of Jesus Christ.  That...

Power is the ability to do work, or to effect a cause, or to make something happen.  When there is no power there is no work, no...

Jesus uses an obvious truth in Matthew 5:14-16 to teach us a powerful lesson about our potential as image bearers of God.  He points out...

When I decided to go on a mission trip to the Philippines in January of 2014, I envisioned myself preaching to crowds of people, and...