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The Acts of the Risen Lord Jesus: Luke’s Account of God’s Unfolding Plan is unavailable, but you can change that!

When the book of Acts is mentioned, a cluster of issues spring to mind, including speaking in tongues and baptism with the Holy Spirit, church government and practice, and missionary methods and strategies. At the popular level, Acts is more often mined for answers to contemporary debates than heard for its natural inflections. Alan Thompson argues that Acts is an account of the “continuing...

have suggested that the book should be called the ‘Acts of the Holy Spirit’.72 As important as the Holy Spirit is in Acts, it should be noted that even this designation does not quite capture the emphasis of Luke in Acts. Acts 1:1 indicates that the book is going to be about what Jesus is continuing to do and teach; therefore, the ‘Acts of the Risen Lord Jesus’ would be a better title. It must be said, though, that this could also be understood as a shorthand expression for something like ‘the Acts
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