Want to learn more about Acts? Use these Bible Studies for personal devotion, group Bible studies, or teaching a church class. Below are links to the lessons in this 14-part series.
Introduction: Have you ever faced a crisis in your life when someone let you down? You had a certain plan for the future, but then your plans all changed. Do you remember the turmoil in your mind? You did not know what to believe and you did not know what the futu...
Introduction: When I read internal criticisms of the Church of which I am a member, they most often deal with theological differences, or a concern about appropriate standards of behavior. This reminds of my car. If I were missing a headlight, or had a dent in th...
Introduction: Our study this week is the church after Pentecost. Is it a model for us today? It is certainly different than the church today. What lessons can we learn? The early church called on sinners to repent. What does that mean? If we see different opini...
Introduction: Would you like to do great things for God? Is your desire to do great things hindered by the fact that your Church assignment is something ordinary? For example, "soul-winning" is not your assignment, rather coordinating potluck. This week we turn...
Introduction: Do you know people who are so hostile to the gospel that you think they will never change? Perhaps you are wrong. This week we study a person who hated the gospel so much that he made it his mission to imprison or kill Christians. Yet, God turned...
Introduction: If you read the Gobible.org lessons regularly, you know that I routinely remind you that salvation is by grace alone, our works do not save us. However, that should not cloud the fact that our works generally make a difference in the quality of our...
Introduction: Is it sometimes difficult to be a church leader? Does opposition and name-calling get discouraging? Our study this week is about Paul's first missionary journey. We will read about the ups and downs of his work. However, the encouraging conclusion...
Introduction: Times change, but God does not change. Is the Church authorized to modify or reject the commands of God? My natural reaction is an emphatic, "No!" But, our study this week shows that an emphatic "No!" cannot always be correct. That should make ever...
Introduction: Last week we discussed the conflict over circumcision. The church resolved the conflict, put its resolution in writing, and Paul and Barnabas delivered the resolution to the believers in Antioch. Almost immediately after that conflict was resolved, a...
Introduction: In our study of Acts we read that at times Paul was prevented by the Holy Spirit from entering Asia. We don't know why, because Asia is on God's map for Paul's evangelistic work. We know that is true because this week our study focuses on Paul's w...
Introduction: Where we last left Paul he had just raised Eutychus to life as he was about to leave the city of Troas. From there Paul did a little more missionary work. Then in Acts 20:16 we read that Paul is in a hurry to get to Jerusalem in time for the feast...
Introduction: Very few people look forward to a trial. When we last left Paul, the Governor told him, "I will hear your case when your accusers get here." In our study this week, Paul's accusers arrive and we study the charges and how Paul defends himself in not...
Introduction: Paul appealed to Rome! We learned last week that Paul would have been found "not guilty" of the criminal charges against him - or so the judges said privately to each other. But, Paul was concerned that he would be turned over to the Jews, and so h...
