II. Compassion on the Outcast

This story of Dorcas (or Tabitha) shows us that Jesus has compassion on the outcast. Aeneas was one who was not only weak but an outcast. Dorcas is another example of an outcast to whom Jesus shows compassion. Jesus does...

Even as the persecution of the Church intensified, the manifestation of Christ’s sovereignty became more manifest. Christianity became a “spreading flame” as F.F. Bruce has called it. After thousands were saved in Jerusalem, more were saved in...

Last week we observed that when the Word of God’s Gospel came to Samaria and set the people free from their sins and the evil spirits dominating them, their city was filled with joy (8:8). Likewise, when the Ethiopian in the passage before us hears...

Today we celebrate Palm Sunday. It is the remembrance of that day when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and people laid palm branches in the road to honor him. John12 gives a powerful recitation of this Palm Sunday story and there are parallels...

In this portion of Acts, Stephen has been taken into custody by the religious leaders. Stephen was a new deacon in the early church and had refused to stop spreading the good news about Jesus Christ. Eventually, he is tried and killed tragically by...