The healing of the crippled man (Acts 3:1 – 10) was a miraculous thing to behold. In the blink of an eye, forty – plus years of suffering, for the crippled man, were over as God fixed the seemingly unfixable.

The text in front of us is the beginning of an episode in the early church that takes up nearly two entire chapters of the book of Acts.

Whenever I read this passage, I am awestruck by the awesomeness of the early church or better yet, the awesomeness of God as he plants the early church within a yard of hell. Think about the things that you and I call awesome. What experiences have you had that you would call awesome?

Peter’s Pentecostal sermon was very different than what you might hear in today’s so-called Pentecostal churches. The main differences are that…

The day of Pentecost in the book of Acts has been described as a day that was full of fireworks, much like our Fourth of July celebrations.² It was a day that had always been full of historical significance and anticipation of the promises of God being fulfilled.

The book of Acts is one of the most action-packed books in the New Testament. It records the beginning of the church as the Holy Spirit works powerfully through followers of Jesus to be his witnesses to the ends of the earth.

The book of Acts is one of my favorite books in the entire Bible. It is an action-packed description of the acts of Jesus through a Spirit empowered, ragtag group of uneducated misfits who became the church within a yard of hell; it is, without a doubt, the most action-packed book in the New Testament.