there were many false teachings and legends that could lead believers astray. Paul emphasizes the importance of adhering to the truth of Scripture, as myths can distort the Gospel and lead to confusion and error. This is a call to discernment, urging believers to focus on the truth of God'...
Thoughts on life, some of which are about what it's like to be a single woman who is a member of and loves the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, loves the gospel, and is just trying to find her place in it each day.
This occurred in Phillippi, a Macedonian city where the gospel had never been preached before. St. Paul, summoned thither by the Holy Spirit, hunted up the worshipers of the true God by going to this place where it had been customary to meet for his worship. Those who thus met must ha...
The apostles were desirous to show that they, as well as the Jews, held entirely to the prophets, and taught no doctrine which they had not taught before them. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary21. until the times—embracing the whole period between the ascension and the second advent ...
Acts is a selective history of thousands of examples of baptisms over the first few decades of the church. Surely Luke did not record the only household baptisms in the entire apostolic period. Rather, this was the normative practice of the apostolic church as the gospel went to Gentile fami...