The Acts of the Apostles (Biblia.com)

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"What Acts aims to do," writes Barclay, "is to give us a series of typical exploits and adventures of the great heroic figures of the early Church. Although the book never says so, from the earliest times Luke has been held to be its writer." If this is so, then Luke wrote both the gospel and Acts with a purpose of showing how the new faith that had begun so humbly in Palestine had expanded. In...

Whenever they speak of it, there is a kind of shocked horror in their voices. They tried to wound people’s minds with the realization of the sheer enormity of what happened on the cross. It is as if they said: ‘Look what sin can do.’ (2) The early preachers always stressed the vindication of the resurrection. It is the simple fact that without the resurrection the Church would never have come into being. The resurrection was proof that Jesus was indestructible and was Lord of life and of death. It

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