The Sanhedrin has issued their warning: If you keep speaking about Jesus, we’re going to do to you what we did to your King. The Apostles have drawn their line in the sand: We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard. The church is about to feel the wrath of the world. […]
Our passage this morning is the second half of the story that we considered last Sunday – Peter and John and the healing of the man lame from birth. The lame man is dancing, Peter is preaching, and the crowd is repenting and believing! Our text this morning picks up in the middle of that […]
Our passage this morning begins to recount how the Apostles engaged in the first stage of their four-part assignment – the witness to Jerusalem. Acts 3:1-26
In our passage this morning, we find a summary of how the church engaged with stage one – their ministry in Jerusalem. They were a healthy church – and their neighbours were compelled by what they saw. Acts 2:42-47
In Acts 2, in Jerusalem during the festival of Pentecost, something like the sound of thunder has rattled the city and a crowd has gathered. As they make their way towards the source of the disruption, they’re met by 120 followers of Jesus crying out the mighty works of God in languages that they have […]
Psalm 109 is an imprecatory Psalm – a Psalm in which David is praying down curses on his enemies. This Psalm will shock us, but it is from God, so let’s listen with humility and expectation.
The Christian life is joy-filled, but it is also simultaneously heart-breaking. It is glorious and exhausting – exhilarating and debilitating. It is up and down and everything in between. Nevertheless, if you are a Christian then, by the grace of God, you will continue to put one foot in front of the next. Because, according […]
The way that you respond to hardship, spend your money, treat your neighbour – the way you conduct yourself when no one is watching – EVERYTHING about you is shaped and dictated by your view of God. Who is He? What does He require of you? What will it be like when you stand before […]
How does a person pray when their world has been turned upside down, when their closest loved ones have dealt them their deepest wounds or when they find themselves in times of trouble? Psalm 3 is a beautiful example of how David prayed after one of his darkest moments – when he was driven out […]
At first glance, the events during the 10-day period between the Ascension and Pentecost seem entirely uneventful and, one might even say, ordinary. But Luke – inspired by the Holy Spirit – saw something significant here, and he means for us to see it too. Acts 1:12-26