New Testament Archive

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once …

In Acts 7, the record is given us of Stephen’s sermon and his defence of wrong accussations brought against him. From Acts 6, a situation arose over the distribution of food to which the apostles charged that leaders be appointed over this particular “mercy ministry” so to speak of the first century church. The criteria was given as “seven men of good repute, full of …

In Acts 3, the story is told of a lame man who lays daily by a place he could have easy access to worshipers going to the temple for worship so he will ask them of alms. That is to be expected; people going for worship are generous he may have reckoned. Also, almsgiving was a normal part of Jewish society as it is today. …