Faith in Real Life

THE ASTOUNDING LANGUAGE OF LOVE   Acts 10:44-48   44 While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. 45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out...

PROGRESSIVE INCLUSION Acts 8:26-40 26 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) 27 So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court...

SPEAKING WHAT WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD Acts 4:1-22  The scripture is lengthy.  I encourage you to read it.  I have tried to summarize some of the salient points in the blog rather than provide the entire text....

                        TO GOD BE THE GLORY Acts 3:1-12 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer at three o’clock in the afternoon. 2 And a man lame from birth was being...

DISCOVER NEW POSSIBILITIES: DO THE WORK Acts 4:32-35   32 Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common. 33 With great power the apostles...

PUTTING WORDS TO THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE  Mark 16:1-8   16 When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week,...

Mark 11:1-11 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, ‘Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never...