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Study Questions for Acts Ch 6 verses 1 - 7 In any community and in any church, problems can arise because people forget the Second Commandment: sometimes it is a matter of just not bothering to put myself in another’s shoes and thinking of how I might feel in their...

Acts chapter 8 verses 1 to 25 Today’s passage from Acts is quite interesting and features among other things persecution, exorcisms, healings and a sorcerer who can do magic. In it we see a snapshot of the spiritual battle that has been going on in the world since the...

Notes and Questions for Study and Prayer on Acts Chapter 2 verses 37 – 47 This passage comes immediately after Peter, emboldened by the Holy Spirit, has told the assembled crowds that they are responsible for the death of the one whom God had sent to save them from a...

Sunday 12th May              Acts Chapter 2 verses 37 – 47 Can any of you remember an occasion and how you felt when someone accused you of doing something wrong or of being complicit in wrong-doing; and...

AN INTRODUCTION TO ‘ACTS’ Over the next weeks we shall be taking a closer look at St Luke’s second book of ‘Acts’. Episodes from it will be the themes for the main Sunday service sermons and for the Afternoon and Evening Study Groups.   The title actually ought...

Initially in order to understand today’s passage from Acts we need to recap on what’s just happened in the previous chapter. Peter and John – on their way to the temple in Jerusalem meet a beggar – a man lame from birth. Peter says to him; “I have no silver or gold...

Pentecost Acts 2; 1 to 21 Today we’re starting our series of talks on the book of Acts. Hopefully many of you will have read Campbell’s excellent Introduction to Acts which he printed out for us to read last week. This will give you a good background to this second...

Luke 4; 1 to 13 In today’s gospel reading we meet a very important biblical character who doesn’t often make a centre stage appearance. He’s sometimes mentioned as being there in the backgound but we rarely get to see him in action. I’m talking of course about the...

John 12 verses 1 to 8. I think today’s gospel reading from John is primarily about worship. We see Mary the sister of Lazarus – who was raised from the dead – expressing what she feels in her heart for Jesus. In short she worships Him. She recognises him as God and...

John 18 ; 33 to 37 We can read the newspapers and look around us at what is going on in the world and think quite frankly - what a mess. Where is God in all this? What’s gone wrong with the world? In fact lots of people when they see poverty and war and injustice...

December 16th Sermon; Luke 3 verses 7 to 18 Advent is not only about preparing for the celebration of Jesus’ birth at Christmas. It’s also about preparing for Jesus Second Coming - at some point in the future - when he will come as the Judge of mankind. What would you...

STUDY QUESTIONS - John  14 ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life’ 1. Despite the comfort and assurance offered by Jesus in this passage, its unequivocal exclusiveness – his claims both about himself and about his being ‘the only way to the Father’ – some people...