Tertullian wrote in 197AD “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church”. This passage in Acts 8 sees the church scattered after a great persecution breaks out. Philip finds himself in a city in Samaria where he proclaims the Messiah and meets Simon the Sorcerer. Peter and John join Philip and the […]
The church is growing through God’s grace. Problems can start and that is what is happening in this passage. The devil is trying to disrupt the work of the church through persecution, corruption and disunity.
The apostles have been warned not to preach in Jesus’ name but they defy this instruction. They continue to proclaim the good news that Jesus is the Christ and that he has been raised from the dead.
This bible passage looks at how much and with what attitude we should give, about God’s judgement and about hypocrisy. However, its main message is about what kind of community the church should be. The passage illustrates a bad example but within a good church.
What do people think is important to us as a church? Do people think we try to rob people of their joy and freedom?
Lydia and members of her household and the Phillippian jailer and his household are baptised in this passage in Acts. Christians may have differing ideas about whether children or adults should be baptised. This has been an area of debate for a long time, the early church fathers were discussing baptism in 150AD and so was St Augustine […]
A man is healed from paralysis. Was it on account of Peter and John’s godliness that the man was able to walk or was it something else?
The description of the unity and the community of the New Testament church is a huge challenge for us today. Pastor Jeremy Ross asks ‘How do we measure up?’
The Apostle Peter addresses the crowd with new-found boldness and proclaims Jesus as the Son of God and that the promised Holy Spirit has come.
Should we be ‘pentecostal’? Jeremy Ross argues that the effects of Pentecost have to be ongoing or there will be no salvation. What happened at Pentecost? What did it mean and what does it mean for us today?