Discusses the background of the Book of Acts and includes a detailed exposition and notes on the text.
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death.
The complete NIV text includes all the translators' footnotes, sectional headings, and a clear, 7-point type.
In Together with the World, Michael Wagenman shows how the book of Acts can help modern Christians respond to crisis and critique in our contemporary world. The book of Acts is about more than simply the beginning of church history.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
With this book a foremost New Testament scholar makes a signal contribution to the literature about the times of the first apostles.This period, when the memory of Jesus was fresh yet no written literature about him existed, lends itself ...
In addressing these stories it dives into many of the most vexing issues faced by the church in Acts and now again in the twenty-first century — issues of sexuality, money, exclusion, conflict in the church, pluralism, and the role of the ...
It worked in the early church, and it works in the postmodern world. The reader's study of Acts in The Book of Acts will bring new intimacy with the Spirit and new joy in doing His will.
Handbook on the Book of Acts
A contemporary, one-volume commentary includes comments, outlines, and introductions to every book of the Bible as well as extended discussios of key biblical doctrines.
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