Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts

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MacLaren's expositions

Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library; in the public domain.

Contents

1. The Ascension
2. The Theme of Acts
3. The Forty Days
4. The Unknown To-morrow
5. The Apostolic Witnesses
6. The Abiding Gift and Its Transitory Accompaniments
7. The Fourfold Symbols of the Spirit
8. Peter’s First Sermon
9. The Name above Every Name
10. A Fourfold Cord
11. A Pure Church an Increasing Church
12. ‘Then Shall the Lame Man Leap as an Hart’
13. ‘The Prince of Life’
14. The Healing Power of the Name
15. The Servant of the Lord
16. The First Blast of Tempest
17. With and Like Christ
18. Obedient Disobedience
19. Impossible Silence
20. The Servant and the Slaves
21. The Wheat and the Tares
22. Whom to Obey,—Annas or Angel
23. Our Captain
24. Gamaliel’s Counsel
25. Filled with the Spirit
26. Stephen’s Vision
27. The Young Saul and the Aged Paul
28. The Death of the Master and the Death of the Servant
29. Seed Scattered and Taking Root
30. Simon the Sorcerer
31. A Meeting in the Desert
32. Philip the Evangelist
33. Grace Triumphant
34. ‘This Way’
35. A Bird’s-eye View of the Early Church
36. Copies of Christ’s Manner
37. What God Hath Cleansed
38. ‘God is no Respecter of Persons’
39. Peter’s Apologia
40. The First Preaching at Antioch
41. The Exhortation of Barnabas
42. What a Good Man is, and How He Becomes So
43. A Nickname Accepted
44. The Martyrdom of James
45. Peter’s Deliverance from Prison
46. The Angel’s Touch
47. ‘Sober Certainty’
48. Rhoda
49. Peter after His Escape
50. To the Regions Beyond
51. Why Saul Became Paul
52. John Mark
53. The First Preaching in Asia Minor
54. Luther—A Stone on the Cairn
55. Jewish Rejecters and Gentile Receivers
56. Unworthy of Life
57. ‘Full of the Holy Ghost’
58. Deified and Stoned
59. Dream and Reality
60. ‘The Door of Faith’
61. The Bearing Out of Discord
62. The Charter of Gentile Liberty
63. A Good Man’s Faults
64. Now to Secure a Prosperous Voyage
65. Paul at Philippi
66. The Riot at Philippi
67. The Great Question and the Plain Answer
68. Thessalonica and Berea
69. Paul at Athens
70. The Man Who Is Judge
71. Paul at Corinth
72. ‘Constrained by the Word’
73. Gallio
74. Two Fruitful Years
75. Would-be Exorcists
76. The Fight with Wild Beasts at Ephesus
77. Parting Counsels
78. A Fulfilled Aspiration
79. Parting Words
80. The Blessedness of Giving
81. Drawing Nearer to the Storm
82. Philip the Evangelist
83. An Old Disciple
84. Paul in the Temple
85. Paul on His Own Conversion
86. Rome Protects Paul
87. Christ’s Witnesses
88. A Plot Detected
89. A Loyal Tribute
90. Paul Before Felix
91. Felix Before Paul
92. Christ’ Remonstrances
93. Faith in Christ
94. ‘Before Governors and Kings’
95. ‘The Heavenly Vision’
96. ‘Me a Christian!’
97. Tempest and Trust
98. A Short Confession of Faith
99. A Total Wreck, All Hands Saved
100. After the Wreck
101. The Last Glimpse of Paul
102. Paul in Rome