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Ian continues our series through the book of Acts. Today we consider Paul’s adventures at sea which saw him shipwrecked on Malta. Ian asks us if our anchor will hold?

John looks at the beginning of Paul’s first missionary journey, in Acts 13.

As we reach the end of the first half of the book of Acts, we find a collection of short episodes: the start of the church in Antioch, and Barnabas and then Paul going to work with them; a prophecy about the famine which was going to be affecting the Roman world and how the [ more… ]

Peter’s vision of a sheet filled with animals being lowered down from heaven might stick in our minds, simply because it’s a slightly strange story… but is it anything more than that? Surprisingly, for most of us it might turn out to be one of the most important passages in the Bible. Acts 9:32 – [ more… ]

‘Everyone’ knows the story of Jonah; children still hear the story and often as adults we remember it with some fondness. Jonah, the man who tried to run away, the many who was swallowed by a great fish, the man who eventually obeyed. Jonah the moaner! A source of fun and one of the easier [ more… ]

God’s choices are often remarkably unlikely – rarely more so than the person he chose to be one of the most influential people in the history of the church, as we see in Acts 9.

Four years on from Pentecost, and things for the early Church in Jerusalem are going brilliantly – except for the bits that aren’t. Then disaster strikes – which God turns around into great news.

Take a minute to read Acts 6:8 to 8:3 before watching this. We think of this as the story of Stephen, famously the first Christian martyr. But there are actually a surprising number of different stories intertwined here – and Stephen’s is not the central one.

As we reach part 6 of our series Breakout studying the book of Acts, we’re thinking about injustice in the early church, and the obvious link to injustice in the world today.