This book discusses the supernatural in Scripture, including the scope and significance of events and embodiments.

To varying degrees, life can be overwhelming for many. In some cases, it seems as though problems pile upon one another, with no end in sight. For those individuals, “hope” may be only a word: a far-off , unreachable concept. Author Lisa Noel Babbage shows readers that there is hope. In 333 Miracles, she shares her personal story, one that includes traumas such as the end of her marriage. Her personal testimony covers six months of her life but recalls more than thirty years of bondage. Babbage shares the road Jesus Christ took her on to achieve wholeness. She identifies specific principles she learned from Bible teachers that helped her on that journey to hope. 333 Miracles introduces people and relates experiences that can speak to anyone. Babbage’s openness about her experiences help readers learn how a closer relationship to God can help them reach beyond the traumas to find hope.

While there have been various studies examining the contents of the evangelistic proclamation in Acts; and various studies examining, from one angle or another, individual persuasive phenomena described in Acts (e.g., the use of the Jewish Scriptures); no individual studies have sought to identify the key persuasive phenomena presented by Luke in this book, or to analyse their impact upon the book’s early audiences. This study identifies four key phenomena – the Jewish Scriptures, witnessed supernatural events, the Christian community and Greco-Roman cultural interaction. By employing a textual analysis of Acts that takes into account both narrative and socio-historical contexts, the impact of these phenomena upon the early audiences of Acts – that is, those people who heard or read the narrative in the first decades after its completion – is determined. The investigation offers some unique and nuanced insights into evangelistic proclamation in Acts; persuasion in Acts, persuasion in the ancient world; each of the persuasive phenomena discussed; evangelistic mission in the early Christian church; and the growth of the early Christian church.