The outsiders from the east came to visit the newborn Jesus with gifts of great wealth. But they looked in the most unexpected places to find the king, and when they finally did, they found Jesus and never looked back.
The outsiders from the east came to visit the newborn Jesus with gifts of great wealth. But they looked in the most unexpected places to find the king, and when they finally did, they found Jesus and never looked back.
Simeon and Anna were elderly people patiently waiting on the birth of the Messiah…but as they aged could they help but wonder if they were past their prime and had maybe missed their opportunity to do what they thought they were supposed to do?
Zechariah and Elizabeth had prayed for decades to have a child…perhaps by the time they were “too old” to have children they had given up on that dream. But in an instant their entire word is changed. They are given a promise, a glimmer of hope cracking through the darkness of despair.
Each person is on their own journey of progressing in the likeness of Jesus. We all take different paths to get there but the Holy Spirit guides us as we need to be guided. For the Apostle Paul, who began his Acts narrative as Saul, there was the bright light of Jesus transforming him. But…
The first conflict recorded in the early church was over a division of ethnicity, but the conflict was resolved through a division of labor.
When the Holy Spirit fills the people with the power to preach, it doesn’t matter how simple the words are or how eloquent, there is power in the simplicity of bringing Good News to people who need to hear Good News.
Acts 2 shows the moment when the Holy Spirit blew into the room where the disciples were gathered and filled them fully. But how does one become “full of the Holy Spirit”? Mostly, it requires surrender of things that are not the Holy Spirit so we can create space for the Holy Spirit to move…
Our friend Tim Walk gives the message about the power provided to the first disciples, and to us, in the form of the Holy Spirit.
Right at the beginning of Acts we see Jesus preparing to depart the earth and ascend to heaven. In his final instructions, he tells the disciples to wait for the power of the Holy Spirit to come into their midst before moving on to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth. We…
After the miraculous victory at Jericho, the hubris of the Hebrew people caused sin and failure at the next battle of Ai. But what do we do when we fail? How do we handle it well? This message is all about how we confront our failures and sins so that God defines us and not…
As Joshua and the Israelites approached Jericho, God gave them a series of unusual instruction for their battle plan to conquer Jericho. In the end, they wouldn’t even have to fight because God had delivered Jericho into their hands before they even drew the first sword! What walls do you have in front of you…