This past weekend, Pastor Tim Keller was called home to heaven after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. The 72-year-old pastor, who planted and led the influential Redeemer Presbyterian Church in the heart of New [...]
The conversion of the apostle Paul described in Acts 9 is not only the single most momentous event in the entire book of Acts (outside of the day of Pentecost itself in chapter 2), but [...]
“Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip when they heard him and saw [...]
In Acts 8, Luke follows the adventures of Philip, one of the Christians who fled Jerusalem during Saul’s persecution. Chapter 8 becomes for us a tutorial on how to witness for our faith, the first [...]
“Now those who were scattered…” begins Acts 8:4, referring to hundreds, maybe thousands, of Christians in Jerusalem who have just experienced the first shock of real persecution that’s broken out against them after the martyrdom [...]