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Luke’s primary purpose is to edify Christians by recounting how God’s plan, coming to fulfillment in Jesus, had continued to unfold in the history of the early church. Perhaps Luke’s most important contribution is precisely this careful linking of the apostolic proclamation of the Word of God with the word that Jesus both taught and fulfilled. The “Word of God” thus binds together Luke’s two volumes, as the salvation that the angel first announced on the night of Jesus’ birth on a Judean hillside (Luke 2:10-12) is brought finally to the capital of the Roman Empire. Luke thus presents “the things that have been fulfilled among us” (Luke 1:1) as a continuation of the salvific history of the Old Testament, showing how this history reaches its culmination in Christ and flows from him through the Spirit-led apostles into a new phase, the church as the eschatological people of God. By doing so, Luke gave to Theophilus, and continues to give to every Christian who reads his two volumes, an assurance that faith is solidly grounded in the acts of God in history and that the message we believe is the same message sent from God. read more…
Also: Bunch o’ Acts resources
Mon Oct 22 Acts 1
Tue Oct 23 Acts 2
Wed Oct 24 Acts 3
Thur Oct 25 Acts 4
Fri Oct 26 Acts 5
Sat Oct 27 catch up/reflect/review
Sun Oct 28 Acts 6
Mon Oct 29 Acts 7:1-53
Tues Oct 30 Acts 7:54-8:3 + catchup
Wednesday Oct 31 Acts 8:4-40
Thursday Nov 1 Acts 9
Friday Nov 2 Acts 10
Sat Nov 3 Catchup/reflect/review
Sun Nov 4 Acts 11
Mon Nov 5 Acts 12
Tue Nov 6 Acts 13
Wed Nov 7 Acts 14
Thu Nov 8 Acts 15:1-35
Fri Nov 9 Acts 15:36-16:5 + catchup
Sat Nov 10 Catchup/reflect/review
Sun Nov 11 Acts 16:6-40
Mon Nov 12 Acts 17:1-21
Tue Nov 13 Acts 17:22-34
Wed Nov 14 Acts 18
Thu Nov 15 Acts 19:1-20
Fri Nov 16 Acts 19:21-40
Sat Nov 17 Catchup/
Sun Nov 18 Acts 20:1-16
Mon Nov 19 Acts 20:17-38
Tue Nov 20 Acts 21:1-16
Wed Nov 21 Acts 21:17-40
Thur Nov 22 Acts 22:1-29
Fri Nov 23 Acts 22:30-23:11
Sat Nov 24 Catchup
Sun Nov 25 Acts 23:12-35
Mon Nov 26 Acts 24
Tue Nov 27 Acts 25:1-12
Wed Nov 28 Acts 25:13-27
Thur Nov 29 Acts 26
Friday Nov 30 Acts 27:1-12
Satu Dec 1 Catchup
Sun Dec 2 Acts 27:13-44
Mon Dec 3 Acts 28:1-16
Tue Dec 4 Acts 28:17-30
Sunday we will use the following prayer as our confession. Taking time prior to familiarize yourself with the themes should yield fruit now and Sunday.
Keep, we ask, O Lord, your Church with your perpetual mercy, and,
because the frailty of man without you cannot but fall,
keep us ever by your help from all things hurtful,
and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Perpetual mercy our frailty our dependence His sufficiency keep us from lead us to through Jesus Amen!
“We all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and loving yield suffering. Love in our world is suffering love. Some do not suffer much, though, for they do not love much. Suffering is for the loving. This, said Jesus, is the command of the Holy One: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” In commanding us to love, God invites us to suffer.”
― Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son
― Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son
I want you to consider turning up tonight or tomorrow at one or two events where Nicholas Wolterstorff will be speaking.
First, let me briefly introduce him to you. If you google Nicholas Wolterstorff your first “auto fill ins” are:
Justice (not a bad thing to have associated with your name) and “Lament for a Son”. “Lament for a Son” was my introduction to NW years ago. I remember reading it and being so absolutely floored by the pain and hope of a parent at the sudden and tragic death of his college-aged son.
“God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. … It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is splendor. … Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.”
“How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity’s song–all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself….We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.” Wednesday 6:15pm on UF Campus (Pugh Hall, Room #170)
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Thursday 7:30pm at Creekside Community Church
The Christian Study Center has much more info on these two different lectures. I just wanted to provide some background for you who might not be familiar.
And here are the two main things for which I knew NW prior to this week:
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Lament for a Son: Nicholas Wolterstorff: 9780802802941: Amazon …
www.amazon.com/Lament-Son-Nicholas–Wolterstorff/…/080280294…Wolterstorff, a well-known Christian philosopher, lost his 25-year-old son to a mountain climbing accident. His reflections in the wake of that tragedy are at times …
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The Grace That Shaped My Life – Calvin College
www.calvin.edu/125th/wolterst/w_bio.pdfFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – Quick View
by N WOLTERSTORFF – Cited by 5 – Related articles
The Grace That Shaped My Life. NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF. Nicholas Wolterstorff has a joint appointment in the divinity school and the philosophy and …
The memorial service for Chipper’s Dad will be held at 2pm on Saturday, October 20. The service will be at Aloma Church in Winter Park, Florida. Everyone is welcome to attend. There is plenty of room. Here is the address:
Aloma Church
1815 State Road 436
Winter Park, Florida 32792
