The Acts of the Apostles and the Early Church

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Each study has also been made up into a Grace Notes course, with lesson and quizzes. To enroll, write to Jon Carpenter at jon@gracenotes.online .

acts of the apostles - warren doud

acts 1 to 7 | acts 8 to 14 | acts 15 to 21 | acts 22 to 28
acts table of contents
bibliography - partial list of resource materials used to compile the Acts course.
MP3 files: 108 audio files of Warren Doud’s teaching of Acts 1 to 14.
The Grace Notes Topics Library has links to all of the 204 studies that accompany the exposition of Acts: GN Library

Paul - the 28 chapters of the book The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, by W. J. Conybeare and J. S. Howson.

history of the christian church - philip schaff - volume 1. first period - apostolic christianity

Chapter 1: Preparation for Christianity in the History of the Jewish and Heathen World
Chapter 2: Jesus Christ
Chapter 3: The Apostolic Age
Chapter 4: St. Peter and the Conversion of the Jews
Chapter 5: St. Paul and the Conversion of the Gentiles
Chapter 6: The Great Tribulation
Chapter 7: St. John; the Consolidation of Jewish and Gentile Christianity
Chapter 8: Christian Life in the Apostolic Church
Chapter 9: Worship in the Apostolic Age
Chapter 10: Organization of the Apostolic Church
Chapter 11: Theology of the Apostolic Church
Chapter 12: The New Testament

The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (Unit V; 20 lessons) Alfred Edersheim. Among the outward means by which the religion of Israel was preserved, one of the most important was the centralization and localization of its worship in Jerusalem. If to some the ordinances of the Old Testament may in this respect seem narrow and exclusive, it is at least doubtful, whether without such a provision Monotheism itself could have continued as a creed or a worship.

Sketches of Jewish Social Life (Unit IV; 10 Lessons)- Alfred Edersheim. The lives of Jews, Jewish Christians, in their families and in the society at the time of the early church.

The Temple: Its Ministry and Services as They Were at the Time of Christ (Unit III; 19 Lessons) – Alfred Edersheim. A very thorough study by a great Jewish Christian scholar.

History of the Jewish Nation after the Destruction of Jerusalem under Titus (Unit VIII; 12 Lessons) - Alfred Edersheim.

The Wars of the Jews  (Unit XII; Seven (7) Lessons) - Based on the book The Wars of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus.

History 100 (Unit I; 10 lessons) - A general introduction to history in Bible light, including Old Testament History, Roman History, Judean History (the 400 silent years), and a brief history of Crete.