The Spirit of Discipleship
This sermon was written for Pentecost sunday based on the first two chapters of Acts...
There were three men of God, talking over the coffee. One was a Presbyterian minister, ...
... hen stoned in Acts 7 by the Jews, the story that begins the narratives about Paul.
The reason this feast day is the most famous is that it is remembered in Good King Wenceslas. The song goes - Good ...
Asuza St: America, Pentecostalism
1) Parham and Stone's Folly
The year: 1900 - a young methodist minister compared his life and ministry to acts and decided his needed to change. To seek the deepe ...
... e ordained ministry was in many cases supportive. A key source of support for example were the many tracts written by Alexander which became the life blood of the teaching in the revival. However the ce ...
... bed to satan, I entirely agree with Mr. Wesley, that they are involuntary and unavoidable, and don't in the least question the facts. Physical writers tell us, that laughing-fits are one species of a d ...
... he received calls to return to America. This was the middle of the first great awakening. Whitefield on his previous visit had been greatly used to encourage revival through large tracts of America. Now ...
... of the woman with seven husbands - Mk 12:18-27
- Paul used the debate to divide the sanhedrin that was condemming him Acts 23
- The Sadducees were concerned to maintain the Sabbath and avoided the ...
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- The major mover in all events of the first century church was the Holy Spirit.
- He began the ministry of the church at pentecost Acts 2
- encouraged and supported them under persecution
- underwr ...
... r - the layer we have in the bible today.
- we delve into the separate theologies of different books/works to gain insight into the theology of the whole. For example in Luke-Acts there is little or ...
... Gospels
Luke-Acts Two parts of the three part work.
John, 1John, 2John, 3John Revelations - Johannine corpus
Romans - Thessalonians, Philemon Pauline Epistles
Timothy, Titus Pastoral Epistles
Hebrews, ...
... en the synagogue and the temple
- the synagogue managed to survive the destruction of the temple in AD 70 and the Romans allowed its continued operation
- The method of evangelism in Acts was largel ...
... ng ranged from giving everything (Acts 4:34) to only giving on the basis of famine relief. As an aside, I personally tithe, and plan to continue to do so on the basis of supporting the extension of the king ...
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The term breadth in this context indicates that the vision impacts many people i.e. little breadth is few people, great breadth is many people. The term depth indicates how greatly individual peopl ...
... I feel, in my reading of Acts, that this is very close to the understanding that Luke presents as the driving force for the expansion of the church.
1) Acts 2:1-4, 14,41
· What was the ministry of ...
... ve reading is the link in the number three between the questions here and the number of times Peter denied knowing Jesus.
Release and Ministry:
1) Acts 2:14
· What happened before this?
· ...
... the Seleucids and Ptolemies.
9) Apostolic - Acts 5:1-12, Acts 6:1-6
I have to be very careful in using this term - it means many different things to many different people. It seems very clear ...
... ture begins in Acts 6 with the choosing of the seven. At this point the twelve make very clear their calling. They were to be the keepers of the tradition ie the Gospel rather than administrators of chur ...
... ous were the disciples?
· Was Jesus with them?
4) Acts 2:14
· What stage of the ministry formation process are these disciples at?
· Where is Jesus now?
· How much do they still have to learn? ...