Acts

A few homiletical observations on Acts 1:6-14:

• Luke is always concerned about place. Now, oddly, when it comes to Jesus' ascension, he's not.

The Areopagus--the former location of the Athenian equivalent of the Roman senate--was a center of civic life. The name comes from "Ares," the Greek god of war, and "pagos," which means "hill" or "rock." The Roman equivalent of Ares is Mars, hence the translation sometimes used: the Mars Hill.

I love interfaith gatherings, but I would never invite Stephen.

At times I will again be struck by the smallness of the thing, of this bit of bread and sip of wine.

When Acts says Jesus is "taken up to heaven," this is not a spatial claim.

Acts 11:1-18