After Jesus ascended, his disciples gathered in an upper room – this group of people who had abandoned Jesus, denied him, doubted that he was really risen – and they prayed. Maybe they prayed for forgiveness. Maybe they asked for…

In Acts 1:8 Jesus gives the apostles a huge task: “to be [his] witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” before his return – what an enormous task! And then after…

Jesus really rose! We were thinking about this mind-blowing truth on Sunday – that a man died and then came back to life, never to die again. And this really happened! Luke, the writer of Acts, sets out his aim…