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Book: Acts of the Apostles

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    • Acts 2:1-13

Reading the Old Testament by the New (& the New by the Old)

The Christian reads as did the prophets, by the Spirt and in search of Jesus Christ
  • rah
  • March 3, 2023
The Pentecost feast found its expected celebration in the usual sequence of Jewish festival days that became part of the Jewish calendar in connection with the Exodus. Pentecost was, accordingly, an annual Jewish festival; but this particular Pentecost found a unique situation and expression because it succeeded Jesus’ recent resurrection.
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When Facts are Crowned with Meaning

A short introduction to the second chapter of Acts
  • rah
  • January 14, 2023
The meaning of scripture, in this way, is the gift of God to the questions that he, himself, excites in man. This is illustrated on Pentecost day, in the litany of strange phenomena that overtakes the crowd that is gathered in Jerusalem.
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    • Acts 26:1-18

The Gospel & Corresponding Christian Witness

The facts of the gospel shape an ironic ministry
  • rah
  • February 23, 2022
The Apostolic witness regarded the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. When the fact of the resurrection was combined with the records of Jesus’ life and death, these together became the essential characteristics of a different kind of news, even a new kind of news—the gospel.
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