On vacation, our family stayed in a cabin near Mount St. Helen’s in southern Washington. My wife’s brother and his family were in the cabin next door, and that morning the eleven of us gathered around the picnic table and read God’s Word and prayed together. When I later commented to my little girl that…
Category: Acts
Acts 2:14-41
Here’s a question and answer that might surprise you: ‘Pastor, how do you know that Jesus is Lord?’ My answer: ‘I don’t.’ The truth is, I don’t know. But I believe he is. In fact, I believe strongly enough to make Jesus’ Lordship the center and foundation of my whole life. And considering we only…
Acts 2:1-13 Pentecost
My kids have recently discovered the old Looney Tunes cartoons. Many of you will remember those cartoons, and their characters: Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, etc. Though there were always different episodes, and if you remember those old shows, you know that there was essentially one storyline…
Acts 1:12-26 Prayer and choosing a twelfth apostle
Praying and Choosing Matthias Last week we began our study of the Book of Acts, which is the historical account of the early church. In this time when we as a church are very deliberately fixing our attention on the person of Jesus, Acts shows us what happens when a community of people is fired…
Acts 1:1-11 Prologue
Today, we are starting a series in Acts. The timing is right. As a church, we are re-centering ourselves on the person of Jesus Christ, and in the book of Acts we see what happens when a community of people is also centered upon Jesus. As I’ve studied in Acts, I am struck again and…