The Acts of The Apostles Part 8

Chapter Eight (8:1-40) Vs. 1-8 The line has been drawn on Jerusalem. The nation has officially rejected God’s pleading with His own people. John the Baptist, Jesus and now Stephen head the list of murders for the “sake of” the Law and Moses and God. The mention of Saul (Acts 7:58) is certainly not accidental. It introduces the central [...]

The Acts of The Apostles Part 7

Chapter Seven (7:1-60) Vs. 1-7 The high priest asks Stephen if these things are so when he knows that the accusations are full of half truths and lies. Stephen, as Peter and Paul are famous for, never misses an opportunity to preach. Stephen begins on a positive note by bragging on the history of Israel starting in (Gen. [...]

The War Report: Gets at Jay-Z, New Music from Dwayne Tryumf, Name Basic, Yung Semaj, HeeSun Lee and SeDa, D-MAUB, Lavoisier, Ruslan (of theBreax) and More!

Bizzle releases “Clarification Freestyle” In Response to Comments It’s seems like there’s a lot of people getting at Jay-Z lately. Bizzle, AKA “Lavyss,” just dropped a response track called “Clarification Freestyle” to those who had comments about his “explaining To Do (Jay-Z Expose’)” song, which pretty much asks Jay-Z to explain the demonic and satanic ideals and [...]

The Acts of The Apostles Part 6

Chapter Six (6:1-15) Intro: Even first century Christianity had practical problems. Any time there is a group of people gathered together there will be difficulties in attempting to satisfy everyone Each group always considers their needs to be the greatest. Acts (6) give us a prototype of how to deal with these kinds of problems. Vs. 1-3 This might be [...]

The Acts of The Apostles Part 5

Chapter Five (5:1-42) Vs. 1-11 Ananias and Sapphira are spiritual pretenders. Their big sin worthy of death in this transitional period, was not the keeping part of what they sold, for it was their own, their sin was in pretending they “gave their all like the others (Acts 4:37) had.Ananias means “Jehovah is gracious.” Sapphira means “beautiful.” The crime [...]

The Acts of The Apostles Part 4

Chapter Four (4:1-37) Intro: In Chapter 4 many practical lessons can be learned. The key word seems to be BOLDNESS. Herein we see how these early believers received this boldness. They were filled with the Spirit (vs. 8,31), they prayed (vs. 29) and relied upon the Word of God (Vs. 25-28). Vs. 1-4 The persecution of the early church begins. [...]

The Acts of The Apostles Part 3

Chapter Two (2:1-13) Intro: The feast itself came fifty days after the Passover. (Lev. 23:15,16) describes the Jewish Feast and marks it as a commemoration of the giving of the Law at Horeb. The two heresies extracted from this passage are: A. You are not saved and “sanctified” until you have the “baptism of the Holy Ghost.” B. The initial [...]

The War Report: Saylah Flowz Rally For Haiti, Canton Jones is Still About “Kingdom Business,” Corey Red is Honored

Saylah Flowz and Artists “Rally of Hope” Haiti Benefit Concert Jan 29th I feel a lot of artist get caught up in music and forget all about ministry. On January 29th, 2010 Saylah will be partnering with one of the largest churches in the Bay Area [...]

The Acts of The Apostles Part 2

Chapter One (continued) (1:9-26) I. The Ascension – (vs. 9-11) One of the keys to helping us get the full impact of these verses is found in (vs. 11) “…this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” What things can we look [...]

The Acts of The Apostles

Introduction Lesson I. COMPOSITION OF BOOK A. Author – Luke the “beloved physician” (Col 4:14; 2 Tim 4:11; Philemon 24) clearly connected with earlier work, as author of “former treatise” (1:1) addressed also to Theophilus (Lk 1: 1-4) – eyewitness of much (16:1017; 20:5-21:25; 27:1-28:16) where he writes in first person. medical phraseology additional testimony (3:7; 12:23; [...]