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Silver and Gold: What You Already Have to Give
The man at the Beautiful Gate had been carried to the same spot every day for forty years. Lame from birth, he had one job: ask people for money so he could buy enough food to stay alive one more day. He sat at the busiest of the temple’s ten gates—the one most worshipers passed
What the First Church Was Actually Devoted To
After Peter preached at Pentecost, three thousand people surrendered their lives to Jesus in a single morning. The church went from 120 to 3,120 in a matter of hours. And then came the question nobody talks about: what now? These were devout people, far from home, who had just been handed a brand-new faith. They
Same Peter, But Different
Of all the people who could have stood up to address the crowd that morning, it was Peter. If you know his track record, you know why his friends were probably holding their breath. This is the man who declared Jesus the Messiah one minute and got called “Satan” the next. Who walked on water
The First Date: Meeting the Holy Spirit
For a lot of us, the Holy Spirit is the part of God we never quite learned to talk about. The Father makes sense. Jesus makes sense. We’ve got the Father, the Son, and the holy Bible—and then there’s this third person we’re not sure what to do with. We’ve tried to tame it with
Power, Purpose, and Plan: Where the Church Begins
We do a lot of things without ever asking why. Your fingers wrinkle in water to improve your grip. Goosebumps are an ancient reflex to insulate you against cold or fear. You yawn to get more oxygen to a tired brain. Fascinating—but you’ve never stopped mid-yawn to demand an explanation. You just do it. A
The Three Chairs Every Christian Sits In
There’s a certain kind of rest that comes from pulling off the road and setting up camp. No schedule, no climb, just stillness for a while. Camping is a wonderful thing—for a season. The trouble starts when the campsite quietly becomes the permanent address. When we could keep going but decide we’ve gone far enough.