Luke opens his account of the acts of the apostles by referring back to his first book, his gospel. There, he says, he recorded all that Jesus had ‘begun to do’. What an amazing thought! That all we have in the gospels is the beginning of what Jesus wants to do in this world. He hadn’t finished his work – it had merely begun. And Luke closes the gospel by referring to Jesus’ ascension which brings his e...

I have a bee in my bonnet about the apostolic. In fact regular readers of the blog would say I have several bees in several bonnets about a whole host of things, but I think especially the concept of the apostolic is stirring something in me these days. I’ve already posted some thoughts, but I’d like to develop more over the next few weeks. They’re not going to be fully thought out truths about what an apos...