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 7 (“Worthy”) in the Summer 2024 study of Acts 1–12 (Acts 5:29-42). Extra Idea Extra provides an idea for using a current news story to introduce and conclude the…
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For more than two millennia, the enemy has tried in vain to extinguish Christianity from the earth by slaughtering believers. God, in His sovereignty, has used what the enemy meant for evil to accomplish beautiful good. The blood of the martyrs cries up from the ground. They carry on the legacy of Stephen who, with…
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Too often, Christians are surprised that they suffer at all for their faith. First Peter has something to say about that. I love Peter’s tone in 1 Peter 4:12. “Dear friends, don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes among you to test you as if something unusual were happening to you.” Peter, having suffered…
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Christianity has come through the fire many times throughout history. Attempts to persecute the church out of existence have repeatedly only refined the church and rendered her stronger. In the first century, the church throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, and Bithynia came under heavy persecution from the crazed Emperor Nero. He burned huge portions of Rome…
Read MoreWritten by Ken Braddy – Manager of Adult Ongoing Bible Studies at Lifeway Christian Resources “After they called in the apostles and had them flogged, they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them. Then they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to…
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