Acts 7:54-60. Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, sees heaven open and dies asking God not to hold the sin against those killing him.
Stephen in Acts 6 — three chapters in the whole New Testament, and an example of what following Christ costs. Framed as a story about the person in the pew,…
Acts 6:1-7. The first church's first conflict — widows overlooked in the daily distribution — and leaders who knew what they were built for and delegated the rest.
Acts 5:17-21, preached into Advent — on transcendence as something a church can make room for but never manufacture, and on Jesus as no one's commodity.
Acts 28 and the end of the voyage: Paul reaches Rome, is met by believers who walked out to the Three Taverns, and takes courage from the sight of them.
Acts 5:12-16, signs and wonders in Solomon's colonnade — and the notice that Luke now counts men and women, which the sermon reads as part of the gospel's liberation of…