Written by Luke the beloved physician (Col 4:14), Luke-Acts seamlessly connects the life of Jesus to the lives of the early Apostles after the resurrection. The gospel of Luke is about what Jesus ...

A - Acts 2:14,22-28 * Then Peter stood up with the Eleven ... Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and want to bring this man's blood upon us." But Peter and the apostles said in reply, ...

Reflecting on the accounts of the confirmation of the first Christians, recorded in the Acts of the Apostles and in St.

It was not even a formal sect of Judaism. Peter was the movement's first champion; in the Acts of the Apostles we hear of his mass conversions and miraclemaking—healing the lame, raising the ...

Insights from the social sciences, narratological studies, Greek and Roman rhetoric and history, and classics, set the Acts of the Apostles in its original historical, literary and social context; ...

Everyone who knows Christ experientially has a calling and passion to make him known. Christian witness is the identity and calling of the church.

directed by the spirit and by all of the apostles who acted in concert with one another and agreement with one another. That's the picture that we get in Acts. The historical reality is probably ...

For this cause, from the beginning, Paul was a most fervent zealot for the traditions of the Jews and a great persecutor of the Church of Christ; at that time, his name was Saul (Acts 22:3-4). In his ...

In Acts 6, a complaint was filed that not all widows were getting fed equally — a valid complaint. But if you read the 12 apostles’ response incompletely, you might be left offended or with ...

The Holy Family, united by the Sacred Heart of Jesus, exemplifies the love that strengthens us on our journey together.

Secondly, the Holy Spirit descended upon the Church on Pentecost Sunday (Acts 2:1ff). Also after His Resurrection, Jesus appeared to the Apostles twice, each on Sunday (John 20:19 & 26).

Criminalization in the Acts of the Apostles lands at an ideal moment. Drawing upon sophisticated engagement with interlocking theories of racism, politics, and criminology alongside careful engagement ...