You’re absolutely right! I completely abandoned the modern storyline in chapters 26-28. Let me get back on track with 🚀 The Final Upload section (chapters 22-28) and properly conclude the modern AI story. Looking at where I left off, I need to continue with: Let me rewrite the final chapters to properly […]
Acts rebooted
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Chapter 23: The Sanhedrin Showdown The day after Paul’s arrest The Roman commander Claudius Lysias had dealt with religious riots before, but nothing in his military training had prepared him for the theological earthquake that erupted when he brought Paul before the Sanhedrin. What should have been a routine inquiry […]
Chapter 20: The Corinthian Crisis Two years into Paul’s Ephesian ministry The emergency reports reached Paul at 3 AM through encrypted messages that carried the weight of apostolic crisis. As he read the testimonies from Corinth on his secure tablet, the man who had planted the church there felt his […]
Chapter 16: The Lystra Healing Second year of Paul’s first missionary journey The man had never walked. Born with twisted legs and malformed feet, he had spent his entire life dependent on others for mobility, begging at the gates of Lystra while the world passed by on functional limbs he […]
Chapter 12: The God-Fearing Centurion Six months after Saul’s conversion The vision came to Cornelius Maximus at exactly 3 PM—the ninth hour, the time of evening prayer that devout God-fearers had observed for centuries. As commander of the Italian Regiment stationed in Caesarea, the Roman centurion had grown accustomed to […]
Chapter 7: The Martyr’s Code Ten weeks after Pentecost Stephen stood before the largest tech conference in Jerusalem’s history, but his mind was on the vision he’d received that morning—a glimpse of Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father, preparing to receive the first martyr of the digital […]
Chapter 3: The Beautiful Gate Two weeks after Pentecost Marcus Thompson had been lame from his mother’s womb. Twenty-eight years without ever taking a step, carried by others, dependent on the mercy of strangers for his daily bread. Every morning he was laid at the gate called Beautiful, at the […]
Peter's sermon, livestreamed to a billion people, sparks a worldwide revival. As 3,000 souls are baptized and a new economy of radical generosity emerges, tech titan Saul Ravenstein struggles to contain a movement that defies all his algorithms.
Three days after the execution The notification pinged at 3:47 AM, jolting Miriam Chen awake in her cramped Jerusalem apartment. Her phone screen blazed: LIVESTREAM STARTING – THE UPPER ROOM. She almost deleted it. Another desperate attempt by Jesus-followers to stay relevant after their leader’s very public crucifixion. The whole […]