Setting up opposition is well-worn track to telling a classic good vs. evil story. This passage depicts two completely opposite behaviours, the model behaviour of Barnabas and the united sharing community of the early church vs. the deceptive and selfish behaviour of Ananias and Sapphira.

Why do Jesus’ followers start their prayer with, “Sovereign Lord…”? They were rooted in the certainty of God’s plan for their lives and His sovereignty over all things. This knowledge gave them great boldness, can you be bold?

If you were asked, “Who are you?” What would your answer be? Would you choose to tell them your name, your job, your hometown? When the Jewish religious leaders asked the Apostle Peter who he was he had a very different answer, could it be yours too?

After spending three weeks in Acts 4, we hosted a conversation between two of our preaching team, Fiona Dorman and James Stevenson. What does it mean to live out the belief that ‘Salvation is found in no other name under heaven except Jesus’.

This is such an important passage as we think about what it means to be witnesses to Jesus in a world where so many people think that it doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you keep it to yourself.

“Societies become secular not when they dispense with religion altogether, but when they are no longer especially agitated by it.” The early church found themselves amongst people who were agitated by them. “By what power and in whose name do you do these things?” They were asked. How can we be like them, how can we speak into, shape and agitate our culture.