Acts Archive

You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them (Acts 11:3). Peter has run into trouble with his Jewish–“circumcision party” —brethren for heeding the voice of the Spirit to fellowship and eat with Gentiles (Cornelius and his household. Acts 10). They protested. As Jews, they had thought every other person was unclean. In fact, the whole narrative in Acts 10 does confirm this. Even Peter …

As a fellowship, we recently started a study of the Acts of Apostles  and are presently in Chapter 9. This post will be a brief introduction to The Acts of Apostles and then subsequent posts will follow the lessons we have learnt so far. Author The author is identified as Luke the Physician and seen as a sequel to the Gospel according to Luke: “In …

Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! (Acts …