#acts

[littlealienproducts]

Animal Stack Set of 3 Art Print A5 Illustration cute by SoCuteCompany

[heart-for-god]

Acts 10:43

[bro-god-is-good]

The story of Stephen in Acts Chapter 7 is awe inspiring.

Stephen: a man appointed by the apostles to spread the gospel, who was described as full of grace and power, died a horrible death following God till the end.

As Stephen is spreading the gospel, people are getting angry at him and creating lies forcing him in front of the council to defend himself.

Stephen uses the Holy Spirit and speaks wisdom telling the story of how the Old Testament connects to Jesus, but still he is not believed and is stoned to death.

As Stephen is being killed, his last words are a crying out to God telling Him to not hold the people’s sins against them.

Stephen : the first martyr of Christianity stayed true to Christ till the very end. ♥️

[stoicmike]

You can’t trust someone based on mere words. -- Michael Lipsey

[redwritr]

trinkets and journal scraps from redbird and acts. side effects of writer's block

thanks to @shootybangbang for the idea and for the sketch of the buttons from acts 🥹i love them and their delicate highlights thank you

[iesnoth]

"Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him

 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”"

Acts 12:8-11 NIV

Part 2/3, first part here

[wiirocku]

Psalm 145:4 (NLT) - Let each generation tell its children of Your mighty acts; let them proclaim Your power.

[aodh-screaming]

been thinking about the Ethiopian Eunuch™ and how they're specifically reading Isaiah when Philip comes up to them

it makes me very happy to think that maybe after meeting Philip and being baptised (HUGE) they went back to their chariot thing

and maybe picked up their book

and a few chapters later they might have read:

"I will give them [eunuchs] a name better than sons and daughters".

gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous moment. UGH.

[dylanadreams]

‭Acts 10:34-35

Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.”

[christianotome]

“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,” ‭‭(Acts‬ ‭3:19‬)

[kemetic-dreams]

Was Christ a common name around the time the Bible was written?

No, because “Christ” is not a name; it is a title. It comes from the Ancient Greek word χριστός (chrīstós), which means “anointed one.” The Greek word comes from the verb χρίω (chrī́ō), which means “to anoint.” The word in Greek is used in the New Testament as a calque of the Hebrew word מָשִׁיחַ‎ (māšîaḥ), which also means “anointed one.” Neither of these words were names; they are both, in fact, titles. Nonetheless, because Jesus is so often referred to in the English-speaking world as “Jesus Christ,” many people have come to incorrectly believe that “Christ” is Jesus’s last name.

Ironically, although Christ was certainly not a common name in Jesus’s time—or even a name at all—Jesus actually was an extremely common name. The name Jesus is an Anglicization of the Latin name Iesus, which is a Latinization of the Greek name Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), which is a Hellenization of Jesus’s original name in Aramaic ישוע (Yēšū́aʿ).

Yēšū́aʿ was an extremely common name for Jewish men in the early first century AD. Indeed, Jesus of Nazareth is not even the only person by that name who is mentioned in the New Testament. Other notable Jesuses mentioned in the New Testament include Jesus Barabbas in the gospels and Jesus Justus in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles.

[heart-for-god]

Acts 20:35

[blackswaneuroparedux]

For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more - remembering my own sins and follies; and realise that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien    

[booksofthebiblebracketpoll]

Acts propaganda:

Malachi propaganda:

[many-sparrows]

17 “‘In the last days, God says,

    I will pour out my Spirit on all people.

Your sons and daughters will prophesy,

    your young men will see visions,

    your old men will dream dreams.

Acts 2:17, a verse I am thinking a lot about lately. Could also be:

Your children will speak to you with wisdom and will challenge your rulers with justice

Your young people will glimpse at the glory of heaven,

And your old will remain full of hope and will dream new dreams