THE BOOK OF ACTS Lesson 29, Chapter 13 As we concluded Acts chapter 12 last week, the focus that had been mainly on Peter and the goings-on in the Holy Land now shift to Paul and to the foreign lands that were home to the majority of Jews. We have passed a new milestone in […]

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THE BOOK OF ACTS Lesson 28, Chapter 12 We just barely got into Acts chapter 12 last week, and the first thing we see mentioned in the chapter is that Herod Agrippa is now the King of Judah. The chapter will end with his death. His grandfather Herod the Great was the first Herod to […]

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THE BOOK OF ACTS Lesson 27, Chapters 11 and 12 Acts chapter 11 explains that after the incident with Cornelius and his household (when the Holy Spirit fell in a Pentecost-like event upon this group of gentiles), that Peter went back to Jerusalem where he faced a barrage of questioning and skepticism by the Believers. […]

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THE BOOK OF ACTS Lesson 26, Chapter 11 Before we begin Acts 11, I want to take a breather to summarize the high points of our study up to now so that we don’t get too swamped in facts and new terms and lose our way. But before I do that I feel it necessary […]

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THE BOOK OF ACTS Lesson 25, Chapter 10 conclusion We are still in Acts chapter 10. And while we’ll finish it today, the issues that surface from its God-inspired words are most challenging and profoundly important to our faith; so we’ll keep on hacking away at it to try to extract from these passages both […]

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THE BOOK OF ACTS Lesson 24, Chapter 10 continued It is said that to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So I suppose for me as a Hebrew Roots Bible teacher, Acts chapter 10 looks like one of those places in the Bible that needs to be attacked with great vigor. Therefore as we […]

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THE BOOK OF ACTS Lesson 23, Chapter 10 Acts chapter 10 is one I have been looking forward to teaching for some time. It gets into an important subject that causes significant tension between Christians and Jews, and within Christianity and Messianic Judaism; it is the issue of whether the Torah food laws are still […]

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THE BOOK OF ACTS Lesson 22, chapter 9 continued Acts chapter 9 began with the fierce heretic hunter, Paul, determined to help eradicate this new sect of Judaism that called itself The Way, but whom the other Jewish factions called the Notzrim . But by halfway through the chapter Sha’ul has had a life-changing encounter […]

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THE BOOK OF ACTS Lesson 21, Chapter 9 We began Acts chapter 9 last week but I purposely postponed getting too deep into the Scripture passages to instead focus our attention on the person of Paul; or better Sha’ul , which was his given Hebrew name. Paul is the English version of a Latin word […]

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THE BOOK OF ACTS Lesson 20, Chapters 8 and 9 In many ways Acts chapter 8 is a significant pivot point. Up to now all the activity concerning the knowledge and spreading of the Good News of the Gospel has taken place in the city of Jerusalem, has been strictly among Jews, and the focus […]

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