Episode notes
Scripture Text: Acts 1:1-11
Bryan Buck
Quotes for Reflection
N.T. Wright, Acts for Everyone
The point of the resurrection itself is that without it there is no gospel, no Deeds and Teachings of King Jesus II. There would only be the sad and glorious memory of a great, but failed, teacher and would-be Messiah. The resurrection of the Jesus who died under the weight of the world’s evil is the foundation of the new world, God’s new world, whose opening scenes Luke is describing.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men ...