Notes for my weekly Bible Study group. Resources Acts overview (video): Part 1, Part 2 Reading Guide Teaching Notes (PDF) Video Overview Acts 24 recounts Paul’s trial before Governor Felix in Caesarea Maritima. Accusations against Paul: Jewish leaders accuse Paul of stirring up trouble, promoting a dangerous sect, and desecrating the temple. The charges against…
Bible Study: Acts 23
Notes for my weekly Bible Study group. Resources Acts overview (video): Part 1, Part 2 Reading Guide Teaching Notes (PDF) Video Overview Paul is before the council giving testimony. The high priest tells his people to smack Paul in the mouth for what he was saying. Paul calls him a hypocrite but later apologizes since…
Bible Study: Acts 22
Notes for my weekly Bible Study group. Resources Acts overview (video): Part 1, Part 2 Reading Guide Teaching Notes (PDF) Video Overview At the end of Acts 21, Paul was back in Jerusalem. The Jews seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple complex, planning to beat him to death. A Roman commander arrested…
Bible Study: Acts Chapter 20
Notes for my weekly Bible Study group. Resources Acts overview (video): Part 1, Part 2 Reading Guide Teaching Notes (PDF) Video Overview Jews were plotting to kill Paul. Many people hated Paul because of what had happened before the Jewish Council. Paul sent for the disciples in Ephesus and said goodbye before heading north to…
Bible Study: Acts 17
Notes for my weekly Bible Study group. Resources Acts overview (video): Part 1, Part 2 Reading Guide Teaching Notes (PDF) Video Overview Paul and Silas traveled through two cities: Amphipolis and Apollonia. Paul was dependent on the Holy Spirit’s prompting to minister and didn’t sense the Spirit moving in Amphipolis and Apollonia so they didn’t…
Bible Study: Acts Chapter 16
Notes for my weekly Bible Study group. Resources Acts overview (video): Part 1, Part 2 Reading Guide Teaching Notes (PDF) Video Overview In Acts 16 God uses Lydia so that her whole family can come to faith. Everything thst happens in Acts 16 is because of God’s timing: Paul being prevented from entering Asia because…
Bible Study: Acts Chapter 15
Notes for my weekly Bible Study group. Resources Acts overview (video): Part 1, Part 2 Reading Guide Teaching Notes (PDF) Video Summary In Acts 15, the authority of sharing the gospel comes into question when Gentiles were converted to follow Jesus. A group of men from Judea (known as Judaizers) were teaching that circumcision was…
Book Club: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry Part 3
Intermission: Gospels are biographies and we can learn from them Spritual Disciplines (“practies of Jesus”) – how we follow Jesus Bible Reading Prayer Sabbath Disciplne: any activity that enables me to eventually do something that I cannot yet do. Jesus doesn’t command us to do any of His practices, He just does them and says “follow…
Bible Study: Acts Chapter 14
Notes for my weekly Bible Study group. Resources Reading Guide Teaching Notes (PDF) Video Summary NOTE: There is a lot of confusion around when Saul becomes Paul. Paul was on a mission to spread the gospel among the Gentiles who spoke Latin anf Greek. Paul adopted his Roman name (Paul) because the name Saul had…
Bible Study: Acts Chapter 13
Notes for my weekly Bible Study group. Resources Reading Guide Teaching Notes (PDF) Video Summary Jesus said he did not come to eradicate the Law, but fulfill it. Acts is the product of that fulfillment Paul’s First Missionary: Jerusalem The church started in Jerusalem Then to Judea and Samaria Then to the ends of the…