In Acts 12 we find that Peter was arrested – again! Herod Agrippa, who was part Jewish and wanted to please the Jews (v. 3), arrested Peter…during the Passover feast. Because Peter was mysteriously (read: miraculously) delivered the first time the Jewish leaders arrested Peter and his fellow apostles (Acts 5), this time Herod had […]
Acts Chapters 10 and 11 tell the story of Cornelius, a Roman centurion in the city of Caesarea which was about halfway between the modern-day Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv along the Mediterranean coast. The Lord used Peter to bring the gospel to Cornelius and his family – it was a major event […]
Paul the apostle wrote to the Corinthian church in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4: For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. This […]
Saul was formerly the number one enemy of the growing Christian community as a result of his efforts to persecute and imprison any and every Christ-follower he could find. However, his encounter with the Lord Jesus Himself on the road to Damascus that left him blind was an immediate game-changer. But how could the believers […]