{"id":4685,"date":"2014-08-14T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/14\/introduction-to-the-acts-of-the-apostles\/"},"modified":"2014-08-14T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:51:00","slug":"introduction-to-the-acts-of-the-apostles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4685\/introduction-to-the-acts-of-the-apostles\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to the Acts of the Apostles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi John,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bWe are so blessed with all the wonderful songs that Jesus has given us, and Joel’s voice has gotten so strong. \u200b I loved hearing Aaron and Abby singing together\u200b. It sounded so good!! \u200b \u200b I really like how you \u200bcolor-coded the \u200bIntroduction to the Acts of the Apostles in red\u200b,\u200b green \u200b,\u200b black\u200b,\u200b and blue. \u200bIt sure made a differen\u200bce\u200b in how we looked at what was going on \u200b after Jesus was raised from the dead until Pentecost\u200b. \u200b \u200bIt made it very simple as you were reading over it \u200b. T\u200bhank you\u200b,\u200b John. They were people just like us \u200b,\u200b chosen by God to hear and feel his spirit\u200b,\u200b and know his ways!!!\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n

Stuart<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

I certainly don’t want this to sound like a “compliment” or “flattery”. . .<\/span><\/p>\n

I just have to express how much I loved<\/strong><\/em> that lesson, and the fact that you have taken the time, energy and thought to make it such a detailed study for your lambs and sheep. The color scheme was wonderful, just wonderful… very enlightening! While you were walking us through the lesson, I felt your hand in mine (or Jesus’ hand, probably), truly, as if I were a child just eating up the truth of God with joy and confidence. It gave me such peace today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Love,<\/span><\/p>\n

Brad<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

Tonight was so good! I was expecting to jump right into Acts, but to get all that background was wonderful! It made it alive. How blessed we are to have God’s life!<\/span><\/p>\n

Carrie<\/span><\/p>\n

PS I loved that Acts 2:4 was both red and blue print! \ud83d\ude42 )<\/span><\/p>\n

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John,<\/span><\/p>\n

Your message last night on the introduction to Acts was extremely good.\u00a0 The manner in which you broke things down made it very clear as to the spiritual condition of the apostles prior to Pentecost.\u00a0 Even though they were told by some that Jesus had risen and was alive they still could not believe.\u00a0 And as you pointed out in the scriptures, they even saw Jesus before he ascended into heaven, yet still had doubts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today I was thinking about when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon back in 1969.\u00a0 I was 18 years old at the time.\u00a0 I remember sitting in front of the TV at a friend\u2019s house watching this extraordinary event take place.\u00a0 Our eyes were glued to this amazing scene as it was broadcast around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

As you probably remember, many doubted what they saw, and I assume they counted the whole thing as some sort of governmental propaganda or political scheme.\u00a0 The truth is, even though I believed it happened I cannot be completely sure it actually did because the experience was based primarily on what we were seeing and hearing on the TV.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your teaching on the introduction to Acts, however, is entirely convincing because we have had first-hand experiences similar to the apostles.\u00a0 We know what it feels like to doubt what we at times have seen and felt.\u00a0 I heard all my young life that God and Jesus were real and worthy to be worshiped.\u00a0 I believed what I was told the best I could but there was always room for doubt.\u00a0 But, when Jesus made himself real to me one night by pouring out the sweet holy Ghost there was no longer any room for doubt!\u00a0 When one experiences the power of God it is not hard to believe what we read in the scriptures such as what you taught last night.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are so blessed to know these things are true.\u00a0 Thank you for taking the time to explain what the scriptures actually say and for the many other things you pass on to us from Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi John, \u200bWe are so blessed with all the wonderful songs that Jesus has given us, and Joel’s voice has gotten so strong. \u200b I loved hearing Aaron and Abby singing together\u200b. It sounded so good!! \u200b \u200b I really like how you \u200bcolor-coded the \u200bIntroduction to the Acts of the Apostles in red\u200b,\u200b green […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}