A listing of free resources available to help you better prepare and teach a Bible study group using Adult Explore the Bible. These ideas support Session 2 (“Empowered”) in the Summer 2024 study of Acts 1–12 (Acts 2:5-16,36-38). Extra Idea Extra provides an idea for using a current news story to introduce and conclude the…
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“So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them. And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to the prayers. Then fear came over everyone, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles. Now all…
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The Holy Spirit’s arrival upon the multinational crowd of Jews gathered at Pentecost miraculously lifted the confusion of man’s speech at the tower of Babel. Thus, the gospel of Jesus Christ overcame the language barrier to reach people of every language and dialect (vv. 5-11). It was just as much a miracle of hearing as it…
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[Acts 2:1-15; “Empowered”] On Sunday, October 30, 1938, hundreds of thousands of American radio listeners tuned in to hear the weekly broadcast of The Mercury Theatre on the Air. That week’s episode, in a tip of the hat to Halloween, was an adaptation of the H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds, the…
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