This is the eighteenth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles This post examines Stephen rsquo s preaching and the plot to arrest him and bring him before the council Stephen is one of the seven who has just been appointed to serve the practical needs of the Helle

We are what we remember granted that memory is deep and wide and that sometimes who we are even who we rsquo ve been may yet surprise us Yet that which is completely forgotten if such be possible would be as though it had never occurred To be human is ever to reclaim one rsquo s past To live

A new image for Pentecost

As he saw it he didn rsquo t just make it He was history ldquo I am the revolution rdquo That was the explanation Napoleon Bonaparte offered in 1804 when he announced that he would be crowned Emperor of the young French republic As Bonaparte saw it stability would never come to France as lo

Try to imagine how distant our loved ones could be before Facetime Skype texting email even telephoning Then you can better appreciate the desperation of a colonial device one attempted far before its time It rsquo s retrieved in Malcolm Gaskill rsquo s Between Two Worlds How the English Bec

nbsp This is the seventeenth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles This post examines a conflict between Hellenists and Hebraioi both groups of Jesus rsquo disciples divided on linguistic grounds and the choosing of seven to serve the needs of the Hellenists r