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The Mission of the Triune God: A Theology of Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Acts is unlike any other in Scripture; it has no rival in terms of a book spanning so many different lands. Written by a Gentile, it recounts the birth of the church age and the lives of early Christians that serve as lasting examples for the church today. When believers see how these events worked together to fulfill God’s promises, they gain a better understanding of the Trinitarian...

All of Jesus’s actions are oriented toward the goal of welcoming more into the kingdom. He dies for his people, he lives so that they too might have life, and he ascends so they too might be glorified. Luke specifically puts emphasis on the “surprising” converts to the kingdom. Jesus does this in Luke as he proclaims good news to the poor, liberty to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, liberty for those who are oppressed, and the year of the Lord’s favor (Luke 4:18–19). Jesus says the Spirit
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