Acts

As we read Acts and the early letters of Paul, we see the people of the early church selling everything, constantly in worship, doing miracles. Does that mean we should do these things also?

The history of the early church is no doubt exciting, as they worked miracles, held everything in common and lived a life of continual worship.

However, a key question for us living today is which of their actions should we follow as a normative command for the church today—meaning we should keep doing it because they did it and what should we understand simply as a history of the birth of the church, something to learn from in principle, but not necessarily a practice to precisely follow?

That’s what this podcast is about. Below you can listen and below that is a PDF of the notes.

To download a copy of the PDF of the notes, Click the following link: NOTES for The Early Church—what to learn from, what to follow

What does it take to change a habit?

We’ve all struggled to lose weight or exercise or get up earlier or all sorts of things we wish we’d do differently.

But it’s never easy to change something we’ve been doing for many years, is it?

It’s never easy to change even the most simple of habits, but in our podcast today we’ll see that the followers of Jesus not only changed their personal behavior from that of fearful cowards to fearless leaders, but that thousands of Jewish believers totally changed the faith practices that had been the core of their identity since the time of Abraham.

In our podcast, we’ll look at the history of the incredible changes that took place after Jesus Resurrection that we read about in the book of Acts and then we’ll look at two of the earliest books that were written to the early church, James and Galatians.

CLICK the following link to download the PDF of the notes for the podcast and then below the podcast is a print out of the notes: Notes Birth of the Christian Church, Acts, James, Galatians