Once more, we looked at different decorations for our Jesse Tree, which help us to understand better the significance of Jesus's birth and how this fits into the bigger picture of God's story. The first decoration this week was a scroll, symbolising the prophets who...

Acts 21:17-36 demonstrates to us once again the ongoing opposition which the presentation of the gospel aroused. Jewish opposition had been evident from the beginning of the book of Acts and has been a constant theme throughout: The Sanhedrin imprisoned Peter and John...

Paul’s arrival in Jerusalem (Acts 21:17-36) provided him with an opportunity to tell the believers there about all God had done on his missionary journeys; he reported ‘in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.’ (Acts 21:19), reports which...