Acts 3:1-26 At the end of Acts 2 there is a summary of the activity of the church and Luke wrote Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. There were many wonders and miraculous signs, but some were more dramatic than others. Someone may have had…
Acts 3:1-10 The text this morning tells a story that is quite dramatic and is one of the stories in the Bible that I understand better after having lived in Rabat for six years. Beggars in Morocco have assigned places where they sit each day. I don’t know how it is worked out, but I…
Acts 2:42-47 I have a rich fantasy life. I used to do a lot of traveling when I was in business in the US and I used to work on a system of rules that would govern my ability to travel into the past. I wasn’t concerned about the technology of how I would travel…
Acts 2:22-36 Jerusalem at the time of Jesus had a population of about 35,000 to 55,000 people. By modern definitions this was not a city, merely a decent sized town. To help you put this in perspective, Jerusalem was about the size of Chefchaouene and El Aïoun or perhaps as large as Azrou. During the…
Acts 2:14-21 Last week when I preached from the first thirteen verses of Acts 2, I made the point that Pentecost was an historical event, like the birth of Jesus and the death and resurrection of Jesus. And in this sense, Christmas, Easter and Pentecost are all unrepeatable events. After church someone came up and…