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Waiting for the Holy Spirit
Luke starts out by building a bridge between his Gospel and the book of Acts (vv. 1-2). At the close of the Gospel according to Luke, he had left the believers in the temple praising God. Now he picks up the story and explains what happened next. He explains to Theophilus wh …

Commissioned to Witness Everywhere
“Witness” is a key word in the book of Acts, and is used 29 times as either a verb or a noun. Instead of knowing the times or dates, the Apostles were to be Christ’s witnesses to the ends of the earth (v. 8). A witness is someone who tells what he has seen and h …

Unity In Prayer Among the Brethren
After the Lord ascended the disciples immediately returned to Jerusalem from nearby Mount Olivet and had a prayer meeting (vv. 12-13). When we face a difficult task or an important decision we shouldn’t rush into the work and hope it will turn out the way we think it should …

Peter Leads The Prayer Meeting
After the Lord Jesus ascended Peter became the recognized leader of the disciples. He was bothered by the empty space left by the treachery and suicide of Judas, and had decided that someone must replace the missing member of the Apostolic ranks. With this mind a prayer meeting w …