What a glorious, happy day that will be, when people seek out the church, seeking God and knowledge of God. Some people do just show up; they find us. This…
Paul speaks of the people who belong to God and to the Lord Jesus Christ (1:1). Have you thought much about belonging to God? In Jesus Christ, we are people…
His spirit fills us. Beloved, how beautiful, those words! We feel so full of so many things. Sometimes, it’s fear. Sometimes, it’s anger, resentment. Sometimes it’s love, yes, that’s true,…
Jesus reminds us to be humble, to seek humility, to learn it and grow in it. We praise beauty; we praise excellence; we praise performance. Humility is more worthy of…
A number of people, including some who ought to know better, seem to behave as if this life was all that mattered. Jesus tells us of a world to come.…
Paul and Silas, still in Philippi, encounter a girl, a slave girl. That wasn’t unusual. This slave girl is possessed; a spirit is in her, that, as spirits do, reveals…
Saul didn’t know Jesus. Blind, thrown down in the dust there on the road, Saul calls the one speaking to him Lord (9:5): whoever is speaking to him has authority…
“You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” Life happens, and we wonder what God is up to. What is He thinking? There is…
Jesus and his disciples are celebrating, eating; it’s a joyful occasion: the one who brought life is with them. Lazarus who was dead is alive, through Jesus. Passover was near:…
Christ came to proclaim, to call. He came to assure whom he called. We aren’t living for ourselves, anymore. We’re living for Jesus: we live for him by seeing ourselves…