Category: Bible Study Series
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How did the Gospel confront jealousy, intellectual pride, idolatry, displacement, and fear? Part 18 follows Paul in Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, and Corinth as he explains the suffering and risen Messiah, faces mob opposition, reasons from Scripture, proclaims the unknown God, meets mixed responses at the Areopagus, works with Priscilla and Aquila, and receives Jesus’ command…
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How did Jesus continue His mission through conflict, closed roads, conversion, deliverance, and injustice? Part 17 follows Paul and Barnabas’s separation, Timothy’s calling, the Spirit’s redirection to Macedonia, Lydia’s opened heart, an enslaved girl freed from oppression, Paul and Silas in prison, the jailer’s rescue and household faith, and the demand for public accountability before…
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How did the gospel move from pagan worship and persecution to the Jerusalem Council’s defense of grace? Part 16 follows the healing at Lystra, Paul’s stoning, the strengthening of new churches, the missionary report in Antioch, the circumcision controversy, Peter and James’s testimony, the apostolic letter, and the Gentile believers’ joy that salvation rests in…
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How did the first missionary journey carry the risen Jesus across Cyprus and into Asia Minor? Part 15 follows Paul and Barnabas before Sergius Paulus, Elymas’s opposition, John Mark’s departure, the synagogue sermon in Pisidian Antioch, God’s promises through Israel, the resurrection and forgiveness through Jesus, Gentile joy, persecution, and bold witness in Iconium.
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How did Jesus lead the early church across barriers of disability, ethnicity, power, and geography? Part 14 follows Aeneas and Tabitha, Peter’s vision and Cornelius’s household, Gentile inclusion, Barnabas and Saul in Antioch, famine relief, James’s death, Peter’s prison escape, Herod’s fall, and the Spirit setting apart Barnabas and Saul for mission.
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How did Stephen’s witness, persecution in Jerusalem, Philip’s ministry in Samaria, an Ethiopian official’s questions, and Saul’s encounter with the risen Jesus reshape the early church? Part 13 follows Stephen’s martyrdom, Simon’s attempt to buy spiritual power, baptism on the desert road, Ananias welcoming “Brother Saul,” escape from Damascus, and Barnabas standing beside a feared…
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How did the followers of the risen Jesus respond when threats, deception, prison, neglected widows, and false accusations tested their witness? Part 12 follows prayer for boldness, Ananias and Sapphira, angelic deliverance, Gamaliel’s counsel, seven trusted servants, Stephen’s signs and defense, and Israel’s story from Abraham through Moses and the wilderness.
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What happens when the risen Jesus sends His witnesses, ascends in authority, and pours out the promised Spirit? Part 11 follows the Great Commission, the Ascension, the praying upper room, Pentecost, Peter’s call to repentance, the church’s shared life, the healing at the Beautiful Gate, times of refreshing, and the confession that salvation is found…
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What happened when darkness covered the cross, Jesus entrusted His spirit to the Father, and a sealed tomb could not hold Him? Part 10 follows His death and burial, the guarded grave, the women at dawn, Mary Magdalene hearing her name, the Emmaus road, peace behind locked doors, Thomas’s confession, breakfast by the sea, and…
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What happens when Jesus prays for His disciples, accepts the cup in Gethsemane, and walks willingly into betrayal, denial, trial, and crucifixion? Part 9 follows His prayer for unity, arrest, Peter’s collapse, the hearings before Annas, Caiaphas, Pilate, and Herod, Barabbas’s release, the crown of thorns, Simon’s burden, Golgotha, and the dying criminal welcomed by…