The Big Problem with the Book of Acts and the Big Solution
There are times to read Scripture from a tactical angle and there are times to read it from a larger perspective.
There are times to read Scripture from a tactical angle and there are times to read it from a larger perspective.
Are you more interested in how the Bible is relevant to your life or how your life is relevant to the Story of the Bible?
Word and Spirit are the fundamental fundamentals that together keep us out of the ditches of religious fundamentalism.
When the boundaries of one’s experience with God are stretched, it reveals two basic responses: self-abandonment or self-protection.
These earliest Christ followers kept time not with a clock but with a calendar and common calendar came from their common text.
Because of the power of the Holy Spirit, and the truth of the Word of God, we, the Body of Christ, stand in the present day place of that twelfth apostle.
The Holy Spirit fills us with the power of the love of God to bless all of creation and in doing so, we will experience blessing.
“God works in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform,” said William Cowper in 1774. I fully agree. One of those mysterious ways is providence (a big theme in John Wesley, about which I’ve written).