Peter’s encounter with a sheet full of sin is one of the hardest passages in all of scripture to deal with. Peter is called by God directly in a vision to do something, something major, that God had forbidden again and again in His Word. The fact that the vision comes in the form of […]
If God told you to walk up to a stranger and offering them healing like Peter did here in Acts 9, would you do it? What if there was no direct command from God’s lips but rather you chose to offer it in Jesus’ name while walking downtown one day? Jesus told the disciples who […]
“I don’t thank God for the gutters He pulled me out of. I thank God for the gutters He kept me from in the first place.” This sentiment was part of a lecture by Bob Stromberg many years ago, and it so resonated with me that it has become my story as well. In my […]
What are the odds? How unlikely is this whole story? Looking at Philip’s encounter with an Ethiopian eunuch, we can’t help but ask how this could possibly have come to be. But then we remember that God is involved, and it begins to make sense. The treasurer to the Queen of the Ethiopians, a believer […]
Our motives matter. Why we do something is sometimes as important as what we do. In seminary, as I read and studied, I began to formulate an entire theological framework around the idea of motives rather than behaviors. Unfortunately, that kind of thinking leads to horrendous acts perpetrated with good motives. For example, in the […]