About this episode
William Klock discusses the connection between the Ascension of Jesus and the events in the Acts of the Apostles.
On Earth as in Heaven Acts 1 by William Klock It’s been over ten years since I finished preaching through Luke’s Gospel. I had planned to preach on the Acts of the Apostles after a short break, but it didn’t happen and didn’t happen and didn’t happen, but as I was preaching through Ephesians these last few months and pondering the things St. Paul tells us about the what the church is and what that means for us, I got to thinking that I really shouldn’t put off Acts any longer. So I’d planned to jump into it last Sunday. Acts begins with the Ascension of Jesus, and then the very next chapter is Pentecost. What providential timing! And then scheduling and a trip to a clericus threw me off by a week. So last Sunday, Ascension Sunday, you got Ephesians 6—which was a bit of an Ascension sermon—and now on Pentecost, you’re getting the Ascension and next week, on Trinity Sunday, you’ll get Pentecost! Now, in case you’re wondering what Acts has to do with Luke, it’s quite a lot. Luke probably wrote his Gospel around a.d. 59 or 60. He addresses it to someone named Theophilus. Theophilus means “lover of God”, so some think that Luke may have used this name symbolically and…
People in this episode
Host: William Klock
Topics covered
- Ascension
- Pentecost
- Acts of the Apostles
- Ephesians
- Christianity
- Church
Keywords
- Ascension
- Pentecost
- Acts
- Ephesians
- Theophilus
- Luke
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Acts, Ephesians, Luke’s Gospel
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