A Suicidal Oath
Acts 23:12–14 “When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink …
4 Things to Know About Pentecost
This extended excerpt comes from John Stott: Yet this reality is multi-faceted, and there are at least four ways in which we …
Charismatic Politics
The prophetic character of Luke’s politics has less to do with the specific arrangements of human society than it does with the …
Matthias, Circle of the 12, and the True Israel Wrought by the Spirit
…the gift of the Spirit is the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham and establishes the restored Israel. This is indicated by …
Rejecting the Spirit’s Witness Leads to Severing
This is from the Kindle version of Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church: The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians by Luke Timothy Johnson: …
Luke-Acts as Prophetic Challenge to the Modern Church
The first readers of Luke’s narrative would perhaps not have seen his story as a nostalgic recollection of a time past but …
Preview of Pentecost in Luke 1-2
Luke notes the work of the Holy Spirit surrounding Jesus’ birth unlike the other Gospels. Among the characters mentioned in narrative form …
My Views of the Pentecostal Spirit in Response to the Tensions Presented in G.W.H. Lampe’s Proposals
Turner, M. (2000). Power from on High: The Spirit in Israel’s Restoration and Witness in Luke-Acts. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic. Turner offers …