Bible Study Notes

14 April 2026

Waiting on Tables, Waiting on the Word: Acts 6:1–7

Just as the young church is riding the wave of remarkable growth, it runs into its most delicate crisis yet — not persecution from outside, but a complaint from within.

7 April 2026

Signs, Wonders, and Standing Firm: Acts 5:12-42

The apostles perform remarkable signs and wonders, are arrested and miraculously freed, and then boldly face the Sanhedrin again.

31 March 2026

Lying to the Holy Spirit: Acts 5:1–11

After the golden generosity of Barnabas, who sold a field and laid the whole price at the apostles' feet, Luke turns without warning to a married couple who did almost the same thing — with one crucial difference.

24 March 2026

The Sovereign Lord and a Shaken Room: Acts 4:23–37

Fresh from a warning by the Sanhedrin never to speak of Jesus again, Peter and John do not go quiet — they go straight back to their own people and report everything that was said to them. What follows is not panic but prayer: a united, Scripture-soaked cry to the "Sovereign Lord" that ends with the building shaking and the believers speaking boldly.

17 March 2026

No Other Name Under Heaven: Acts 4:1–22

A healing that no one can deny becomes the spark for the first real clash between the apostles and the Jewish authorities.

10 March 2026

The Author of Life: Acts 3:11–26

Who Jesus really is, why the crowd is responsible for His death, and what they must now do about it.

3 March 2026

Silver and Gold I Do Not Have: Acts 3:1–10

A man lame from birth is carried to the temple gate each day to beg, and on this particular afternoon two disciples going up to pray stop, look him in the eye, and offer him something no coin could buy.

24 February 2026

A Community Devoted: Acts 2:42–47 & Acts 4:32–37

Two snapshots of the earliest church, one taken just after Pentecost and one taken a few chapters later, show exactly the same picture: believers who held nothing back from each other, met constantly, and gave until it hurt.

17 February 2026

Repent, Be Baptised, Receive the Spirit: Acts 2:37–47

Repent, be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

10 February 2026

Repent and Be Baptised: Acts 2:37–47

Why does baptism matter so much that the New Testament seems to know no such thing as an unbaptised believer?

3 February 2026

Cut to the Heart: Repentance, Baptism, and the Promise of the Spirit: Acts 2:36–47

Peter's Pentecost sermon reaches its point: the very people listening had a hand in crucifying Jesus, yet God has made this same crucified Jesus both Lord and Messiah.

27 January 2026

Cut to the Heart: Acts 2:22–41

From the prophecies of Joel, Ezekiel and Jeremiah through to the crowd's stunned response: "Brothers, what shall we do?"

20 January 2026

Not Drunk, But Filled: Acts 2:14–41

Tongues of fire, a sound like a violent wind, and a room full of ordinary people suddenly speaking in languages not their own — the watching crowd in Jerusalem does not know what to make of it, and their guesses run from wonder to ridicule.

13 January 2026

From Eden to Pentecost: The Whole Story Behind Acts 1:1–11 & 2:1–13

Tracing the single storyline that runs from the opening verses of Genesis all the way to the day of Pentecost. The session set out to show why Acts does not begin the story of God and His people but completes it.

9 December 2025

Firstfruits, Wind, and Fire: The Full Meaning of Pentecost — Acts 2:1–47

Why does it matter so much, and what did this outpouring actually change?

2 December 2025

The Holy Spirit Comes: Acts 2:1–47

The Day of Pentecost, when the promise Jesus made before His ascension is finally kept.

25 November 2025

Matthias, the Casting of Lots, and the Case for Waiting: Acts 1:12–26

18 November 2025

Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Power: Acts 1:1–11

The widening mission from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth, and the strange ascension scene that launches it all

11 November 2025

Power, Witness, and the Ends of the Earth in Acts 1:8

The disciples want to know about timing - "when" - but Jesus answers with a mission instead

11 November 2025

The Mount of Olives, Zechariah, and a Sabbath Day's Walk: Acts 1:12

The return to Jerusalem, the upper room, Peter's speech, and the casting of lots for Matthias.

28 October 2025

Baptised in the Spirit, Not Told the Times:

The promise that Jesus would baptise His followers with the Holy Spirit, and the disciples' very human question about when Israel's kingdom would finally be restored

25 October 2025

Wait for the Promise - Acts 1:1-11

Picking up directly from Luke's Gospel, this session traces the risen Jesus' forty days with His apostles - the convincing proofs that He was alive, His teaching on the kingdom of God, and His command to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit before the mission can even begin

7 October 2025

Turning the World Upside Down: An Introduction to Acts

This opening session steps back from the text itself to ask why Acts still grips readers today, who actually wrote it, what Luke was trying to achieve in writing it, and what its theology adds up to