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Acts 6 is the sixth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the institution of the first seven deacons, [1] and the work of one of them, Stephen. The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of ...
The Christadelphian Sunday School Union (CSSU) is an organisation which provides lessons, books, magazines and other services for Christadelphian Sunday schools and youth groups. [1] [2] The CSSU provides lessons both for the use of teachers, and also for distance education. Materials are divided for ages 3–6, 7–10, 11-14 and 14+.
[7] Published works by Ellen Mary Knox include Acts of the Apostles: Bible Lessons for School Children (1908), [ 8 ] Canadian Education and the War , The Girl of the New Day (1919), about the role of young women in Canada after World War I , [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and A Girl's Week of Prayer (1920).
Their names and an account of their appointment are given in chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 6:1–6). According to a later tradition they are supposed to have also been among the Seventy Disciples who appear in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 10:1, 10:17). The activities of Stephen and Philip are the only two recorded and their works ...
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The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
In 2007-2008, Elk River, Minnesota's board of education prohibited Child Evangelism Fellowship from distributing materials during open houses in that district's schools. . CEF took the matter to the U.S. District Court, where in February, 2009, Judge Ann Montgomery ruled that the school district's order deprived CEF of its freedom of speech righ
The painting of the Seven Works of Mercy by Frans II Francken (1605) represents the acts not as a picture cycle, but in one single composition. A major work of the iconography of mercy is the altarpiece of Caravaggio (1606/07) in Naples , which was commissioned by the Confraternità del Pio Monte della Misericordia for their church.