Why is the Book of Acts in your Bible?

The book of Acts may seem like a bunch of strange events in cities you don’t know how to find on a map.  But it tells a critical part of God’s story and introduces a man we’re going to meet again and again as we continue through the Bible. But before...

The Spread of the Church

So far in the book of Acts, we’ve watched the church explode onto the scene, beginning the fulfillment of Jesus’ promise in Matthew 16:18.  Propelled by the advent of the Holy Spirit and His dynamite power, Peter preached a great sermon and the harvest...

The Birth of the Church

At the end of the gospels, we leave the resurrected Jesus giving the famous Great Commission to His disciples.  “Go and make disciples.”  He’d spent forty days with them, but the promised Comforter (John 14:16-17) had not come and He had not begun to build...