Acts 5 During the course of thirty-six years of priesthood I’ve heard a hundred versions of: “We talk too much about money in Church; my pledge is my business; just cut the budget.” This pleasant little vignette in Acts 5 regarding Ananias and Sapphira reminds us, on the off chance we missed the teaching of Jesus on the …
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Acts 4 The priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon Peter and John proclaiming the Gospel, and they are annoyed; they are so annoyed they put the two men in jail. The next day the disciples are brought before Annas and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and all who were of …
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Acts chapter 3 Nothing like a powerful experience to make you behave like an idiot. At the conclusion of Acts 2, once the Holy Spirit has descended, the fired-up disciples decide to form a commune. All goods shall be held in common…the Lord is coming soon! This does not work out. I led a college …
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Acts chapter 2 Shavout was a Jewish Festival occurring on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan. This moveable feast celebrated the important harvesting of wheat, and, spiritually commemorated the giving of the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai. It was one of three pilgrim festivals during the course of the year, and …
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