In Matthew 16:18 Jesus promised to establish His Church. This glorious event took place on the Day of Pentecost. Acts tells us that God of Heaven launched His Church that day. In the first few chapters of Acts we are told that early church centered their ministries in the city of Jerusalem. They had nit […]
The Persecution: Acts 4:1-7 The first persecution the early church suffered came from the Sadducees. This was not all that unusual, in the fact that the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection from the dead. It was the resurrection of the Lord Jesus that the Apostles were proclaiming to the people that day. The Captain […]
Introduction: The thoughts for this proposed new series of articles came from an old sermon outline I found yesterday while cleaning out some boxes. It was the message I preached on September 29, 1991. It was the last service at Shawnee Church of Christ in Louisville, KY. In the next paragraph is a summary of […]