{"product_id":"acts-personal-workbook-volume-1-chapters-1-12-by-chad-sychtysz","title":"Acts Personal Workbook, Volume 1 (Chapters 1–12) by Chad Sychtysz","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFifteen lessons through Acts 1–12, from the Mount of Olives to Herod's prison and the gospel's first steps beyond the Jews.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eActs is where the New Testament comes together. The gospels end with a risen Lord and a commission, and the epistles assume churches already planted in Corinth, Ephesus, and Rome. Acts tells you what happened in between. It's the record of how the gospel was first preached, how people responded to it, and how a band of Galilean fishermen turned the Roman world upside down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChad Sychtysz reads Luke as both a careful historian and an inspired writer. Luke names more than a hundred people and more than a hundred places, and nearly all of them have been confirmed by secular sources and archaeology. Sychtysz takes that history seriously, from the Pax Romana and the Roman roads to the Jewish councils and Herod's court, but he never lets it crowd out the point. Acts answers the question every lost person eventually asks: \"What must I do to be saved?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 1 covers the first twelve chapters, where Peter is the central figure and Jerusalem is home base. The church is born at Pentecost, tested by persecution from outside and sin from within, scattered by Stephen's death, and finally opened to the Gentiles in the house of Cornelius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat's Inside\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction to Acts\u003c\/strong\u003e covers Luke's authorship, the Roman world God prepared for the gospel, the apologetic purpose running through the book, and the resurrection testimony that anchors every sermon in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChrist's Ascension (1:1–11)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChoosing an Apostle (1:12–26)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter's First Sermon (2:1–36)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Response to Peter's Sermon (2:37–47)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHealing of the Lame Man; Peter's Second Sermon (3:1–26)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter and John's Arrest (4:1–31)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe First Discipline within the Church (4:32–5:11)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Apostles' Arrest (5:12–42)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStephen's Appointment and Arrest (6:1–15)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStephen's Defense (7:1–60)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhilip's Ministry (8:1–40)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaul's Conversion; Peter's Ministry (9:1–35)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCornelius' Conversion (10:1–48)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter's Defense; the Church in Antioch (11:1–30)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter's Arrest and Deliverance (12:1–25)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFormat \u0026amp; Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach lesson works through its passage section by section and closes with discussion questions that have room left for writing. The questions push past the facts of the text. Why didn't the risen Jesus appear to the men who crucified Him? Why does God keep the \"times and epochs\" to Himself? What drives a man like Herod to resist the truth when the evidence is standing in front of him? They're built for a Sunday or Wednesday adult class, and they work just as well for one person with an open Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEndnotes carry the scholarly detail without slowing the lessons down, and a full source list closes the book, including Barnes, Boles, F. F. Bruce, Calvin, Coffman, and Beasley-Murray's \u003cem\u003eBaptism in the New Testament\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003cthead\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eTitle\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eActs Personal Workbook, Vol. 1 (Chapters 1–12)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAuthor\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eChad Sychtysz\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpiritbuilding Publishers\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback workbook\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePages\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e199\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTrim size\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e6 x 9 inches\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLessons\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15, plus a full introduction\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTranslation\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNew American Standard Bible\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e978-1-964805-98-6\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCover design\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLarissa Lynch\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication year\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdult Bible class teachers who want a full quarter on the birth of the church. Preachers working through the conversion accounts or the sermons of Peter and Stephen. New Christians who want to see how the church they've just joined got its start, and longtime members who've never studied Acts closely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChad Sychtysz\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a minister of the gospel since 1994, serving churches in Alaska and Washington state. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and has written numerous books and workbooks on the Bible, including personal workbooks on 1 \u0026amp; 2 Thessalonians and 1 \u0026amp; 2 Timothy and Titus, and studies of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Proverbs. 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