The Gospel of Luke focuses a lot of attention on Jesus’ ministry to marginalized and disenfranchised people (women, the poor,...

During the earthly portion of his ministry, Jesus recruited people to be disciples by telling them to take up their cross and follow him....

One of the first internal problems the church faced was ethnic tension between Hebrew-speaking and Greek-speaking Christians. The...

Peter, as all elders must be, was a teacher. He taught about Jesus “in season and out of season,” when people wanted to hear and when...

Peter was an apostle and at some point he was also an elder in a church (see 1 Peter 5:1). It’s easy to read about the miracles Peter...

The story of Ananias and Sapphira is one many of us would rather skip over, but we must not ignore the parts of Scripture that make us...

After their first arrest and being threatened by the Jewish authorities, the early church did not try to seize political power or rally...

The Jewish council of rulers, elders, and scribes arrested Peter and John and eventually told them to stop speaking and teaching in the...

Scripture: James 5:13-20