Acts (St. Andrews Expositional Commentaries | StAEC)
Overview
In 1997 scholar and teacher R.C. Sproul was called to the pulpit of St. Andrews Chapel in Sanford, Florida. The published collections of his sermons, the St. Andrew’s Expositional Commentary series, are the result of years of careful preparation and weekly, Bible-centered preaching. Readers will follow Sproul as he preaches through the book of Acts. The account of the gospel spreading to the Gentiles is the story of the roots of the Christian faith. By God’s grace and the labor of Paul and the apostles, salvation has spread to all the nations. Balancing broad and narrow perspectives of each passage, Sproul explores important theological terms and themes, offers perspective from his own wisdom and experience, and engages in practical application.
Delivered from a pastor’s heart for his congregation, readers will find Acts readable, applicable, appropriately paced, and thoroughly Bible-centered. Here is an opportunity to sit at the feet of an eminent theologian and teacher, encountering the Word of God.
- Provides insights into understanding, applying, and preaching the Word
- Offers verse-by-verse exposition from a world-class Reformed preacher
Top Highlights
“One of the most difficult virtues to acquire in life is the ability to handle disappointment and the frustration that inevitably comes with unfulfilled expectations. A friend once told me, ‘Everybody has land mines in their personality, and land mines are hidden bombs under the surface.” (Page 40)
“Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight (v. 9). This was the Shekinah cloud predicted in the book of Daniel, where the Son of Man appeared before the Ancient of Days, arriving on the Shekinah cloud of glory.” (Page 28)
“In this study we are going to look at the record of the first sermon preached in” (Page 46)
“Peter then cites from the book of Joel, ‘It shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour” (Page 48)
“Calvin said that it is the task of the visible church to make the invisible kingdom of Christ visible, to manifest to people what it would be like to live in a commonwealth ruled by Jesus. We are called to bear witness to a reign based on righteousness, truth, mercy, and charity.” (Page 28)
The St. Andrew’s Expositional Commentary will be welcomed throughout the world. It promises to have all R.C.’s hallmarks: clarity and liveliness, humor and pathos, always expressed in application to the mind, will, and affections. R.C.’s ability to focus on ‘the big picture,’ his genius of never saying too much, leaving his hearers satisfied yet wanting more, never making the Word dull, are all present in these expositions.
—Sinclair B. Ferguson, senior minister, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, SC
R.C. Sproul, well known as a master theologian and extraordinary communicator, now shows that he is a powerful, insightful, helpful expository preacher. This collection of sermons is of great value for churches and Christians everywhere.
—W. Robert Godfrey, president, Westminster Seminary California
R.C. Sproul is a legend in our time. His preaching has held us in awe for half a century, and these pages represent the fruit of his latest exposition, coming as they do at the very peak of his abilities and insights. I am ecstatic at the prospect of reading the St. Andrew’s Expositional Commentary series. It represents Reformed theology on fire, delivered from a pastor’s heart in a vibrant congregation of our time. Essential reading.
—Derek W.H. Thomas, John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary
Thousands of us have long been indebted to R.C. Sproul the teacher, and now, through the St. Andrew’s Expositional Commentary, we are indebted to Sproul the preacher, whose sermons are thoroughly biblical, soundly doctrinal, warmly practical, and wonderfully readable. I predict that Sproul’s pulpit ministry in written form will do for Christians in the twenty-first century what Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s sermonic commentaries did for us last century.
—Joel R. Beeke, president, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary
- Title: Acts
- Author: R. C. Sproul
- Series: St. Andrew’s Expositional Commentary
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Acts › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9781433522734, 9781433522741, 9781433522765, 9781433522789, 143352273X, 1433522748, 1433522764, 1433522780
- Resource ID: LLS:SPROULACTS
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:06:19Z
R. C. Sproul (1939– 2017) was a respected teacher, theologian, pastor. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries where he served as executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Sproul held degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, Free University of Amsterdam, and Whitefield Theological Seminary. He taught at several colleges and seminaries including Reformed Theological Seminary and Knox Theological Seminary. He served as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, in Sanford, Florida. Sproul’s teaching can be heard daily on the ‘Renewing Your Mind’ radio broadcast which plays in over 40 countries.
Sproul wrote over 70 books and articles including the classic The Holiness of God and several theological articles in Tabletalk magazine.