We can believe, with certainty, that Jesus is who He says He is, He did what the bible records Him as doing, and He said what the bible records Him as saying. May our faith, founded on fact, increase as we read this powerful account of Jesus, gathered from many people who saw and heard Him.

It doesn’t bear thinking about what it would be like if we didn’t have the book of Acts! Imagine never having an account of the earliest church, never knowing how the gospel spread or how the church operated. Thankfully we do have this book and if we will read it with minds and hearts wide open, we can expect to be thoroughly and powerfully changed.

This eleven week study introduces you to God’s eternal plan that is being worked out through Christ and His body, the Church. You will discover every that is needed for believers and learn how to work that out in the daily Christian life.

Welcome to the book of Philippians! Allow me to explain a bit about the context of the book. The book is a letter. It is written by the famous Missionary Apostle Paul to a group of Jesus followers in a city called Philippi, in Macedonia, in Greece.

The letter of James was most likely written around AD 40-45 to Jewish Christian house churches scattered around the Mediterranean world. As a scattered people they would have experienced more than their fair share of persecution and poverty. It is possible that these believers were the ones who were from the early Jerusalem church, scattered after Stephen’s death.