Exciting and dramatic events have been described earlier in the book of Acts. Jesus has ascended into heaven, Pentecost has happened, Stephen has been stoned, Paul has been converted and so we come to the end of Paul’s missionary journeys. Often a series of study on Acts will end here. What Paul goes on to say he also says in […]
Pastor Jeremy Ross looks at this passage to examine the way the church grew and developed. We want the church in Dunfermline to grow spiritually and in number because we love people and family and friends. In this passage, Paul urges the overseers to keep watch over themselves and the flock. We also see that the church […]
Continuing our series in Acts, Paul takes the gospel to the Thessalonians, the Bereans and to the Athenians. He uses different ways to connect with people, visiting the synagogue to reason from the scriptures, showing compassion and proclaiming the gospel wherever he goes to the glory of God. He goes out in obedience to tell people […]
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. In this passage three people believe. It all begins with someone telling them the good news. Firstly, Lydia, a business woman who worships god but realises that’s not enough – she learns about Jesus and believes. Secondly, the poor slave girl possessed by a […]
This passage describes the continuing work of Jesus Christ building his church, a church planted and growing throughout Asia. As God opens and closes doors in Dunfermline Free Church and as thousands of Syrian refugees head to the UK and to Scotland, we may see new things happen when new people are involved in the […]
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 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.
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 […]