A Bible Handbook to the Acts of the Apostles

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Mal Couch
Kregel Academic - 455 páginas

Mal Couch has combined the talents of numerous evangelical scholars to present an in-depth look at the major doctrinal themes and issues in the Book of Acts.

This three-part work begins with a discussion of the major theological issues in the Book of Acts. The second section explores the person and work of the Holy Spirit. The third section presents a verse-by-verse handbook to Acts; discussing the background and significance of the people, places, and events.

Contributors to this work are Paul Benware, Mal Couch, Thomas Figart, Arnold Fruchtenbaum, Robert Lightner, Steven McAvoy, Russell Penny, and J. Randall Price.Contributors are well-known and respected theologians from across the countryIncludes numerous charts and mapsDeals with a pivotal book in the Bible

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Foreword
7
The Theology and Work of the Holy Spirit in Acts
119
82
156
A VersebyVerse Background Guide to the Book of Acts
177
The First Organized Official Persecution
227
Problems in the Church Persecution Outside
241
The Selection of Deacons Stephen Before the Sanhedrin
253
Stephens Sermon and Martyrdom
259
The Ministry at Ephesus
354
Travels Through Greece and Asia Minor
361
Return to Jerusalem the Arrest of Paul
368
Pauls Defense Before the Jerusalem Crowd
374
Paul Before the Sanhedrin Journey to Caesarea
378
Pauls Address Before Felix
381
Pauls Testimony Before Festus
385
Pauls Defense Before Agrippa
388

The Conversion of Saul Sauls Journey to Jerusalem
270
Peter and the First Gentile Conversions
281
The Gentile Witness Controversy Saul and the Antioch Church
287
Increasing Persecution and the Death of Herod
297
First Missionary Journey Paul at Pisidian Antioch
309
Outreach to Iconium Lystra and Derbe Return to Antioch
312
The Jerusalem Council Second Missionary Journey
317
The Gospel in Macedonia the Ministry at Philippi
323
The Ministry at Thessalonica Berea and Athens
334
The Ministry at Corinth Third Missionary Journey
343
Pauls Journey to Rome
390
Pauls Arrival at Rome Meetings with the Roman Jews
395
Appendixes
401
Timelines Acts 128
403
The Laying on of Hands in the Old Testament and the Gospels
405
The Sign Gifts
412
Progressive Dispensationalism and the Book of Acts
417
Endnotes
425
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Página 30 - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
Página 80 - Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High...
Página 52 - And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Página 52 - From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 22 And Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, "God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you.
Página 62 - And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow ; and continued his speech until midnight.
Página 23 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
Página 22 - And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always : but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
Página 78 - I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day : and not only to me, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.
Página 68 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Página 285 - And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne ; and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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