Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts

About this book

One volume of Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture, gathering his expository sermons on the Acts of the Apostles. MacLaren spent his long ministry in Manchester, and these sermons show his gift for taking a passage apart, explaining it in order, and pressing it home to conscience and conduct. They remain valued helps for preachers and for any reader working steadily through this part of Scripture.

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 🔒