Category: Acts
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Turning the Tables
Turning the Tables 5/6/2018 Acts 7:51-53 Download MP3 As Stephen winds his way to the conclusion of his speech before the Sanhedrin, he turns the tables on them. They have charged him with irreverence for the law and rebellion against the temple and Stephen in turn charges them with gross crimes, murdering Christ and disobeying […]
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Putting God In A Box
Putting God In A Box 4/29/2018 Acts 7:44-50 Download MP3 As Stephen winds down his sermon before the Sanhedrin, he concludes with a powerful critique of their flawed conceptions about God, holy space, and worship. At the heart of Stephen’s critique is the charge that these Jews operate with a false conception about God, […]
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Rejection Leads to Rejection
Moses Episode 2: Rejection Leads to Rejection Acts 7:30-43 Download MP3 Beginning in verse 35, Stephen refers to Moses with a series of demonstrative pronouns over 4 verses and then in verse 39 he switches to the objective pronoun, to him. The whole construction is designed to highlight the uniqueness of Moses in his divine […]
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Battered But Not Broken
Acts 5:33-42 With jealousy planted deep down in their hearts, the Sanhedrin put the apostles under arrest and threw them in jail publicly. During the night, the angel of the Lord set the apostles free from captivity and commissioned them to preach in the temple. When the apostles were recovered by the authorities, they were beaten, […]