The book of Acts relates a fascinating incident in the early days of the church. Philip. one of Jesus’ followers, met an Ethiopian man on a desert road between Jerusalem and Gaza. The traveler, a high official in the court of the Ethiopian queen, had made a...
From the very beginning, the church has been a place for all kinds of people. The church was born on a Sunday in Jerusalem when thousands of Jews from around the world gathered for one of the major yearly festivals (called Pentacost or the Feast of Weeks). That was...
The book of Acts, the fifth book of the New Testament, tells the story of the church’s birth and development in the first three decades after Jesus’ death, resurrections, and ascension. If you were to survey every chapter in that story, you would find that...