Acts 1:3-11Luke, a Greek physician, wrote a history of the ministry of Jesus and the early church. The first half of the book is the Gospel according to Luke and the second half is the Book of Acts. It doesn’t take long for Luke to get to the heart of the second half of his…
Acts 1:1-5 I talked with Elliot last week about where we would go next in the Bible for preaching. Elliot suggested the book of Romans and the book of Acts. As I thought about our conversation, I was drawn to begin sermons from the book of Acts. Why have I been drawn to this book?…
For someone with an active imagination, a pandemic is not a good time to develop a high fever. On Wednesday afternoon I started shaking and shivering and eventually took my temperature. 100.5 F, 38 C. For two days my temperature varied from 100.5 to 102.5 F, 39.2 C. Friday night my temperature dropped to 99.5…
various We talk about the covid-19 pandemic as a once in a lifetime event, and that is true – at least until the next pandemic. But history has a wider point of view than a mere one hundred years. When viewed from a broader historical point of view, looking at just the past two thousand…
Matthew 12:46-50 When Matthew wrote his gospel, he did not randomly pick stories to tell about Jesus. He was writing to Jews and wanted to show how Jesus fulfilled prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, what we call the Old Testament. He began with the genealogy of Jesus, showing that Jesus was descended from David and…