Posts from March 2023

In Acts 3 Peter made it clear six ways from Sunday that the lame man was healed in Jesus’ name. No surprise, then, that the name of Jesus dominates the book of Acts, not to mention the rest of the New Testament. That is why in the name of Jesus we preach and pray and baptize, we serve and suffer, we ask God to do miracles, and so much more! I’ve…

During our February Retreat we met the theme of mercy over and over in the book of Jonah. When we come to the New Testament gospels we find them reverberating with the mercy of the Lord: In the epistles we are taught the theological underpinnings of God’s mercy: But what about in the book of Acts, where the word mercy is entirely absent? Did God pause His mercy…

Have you ever noticed how often the word “new” is used in advertising and promotional material? It’s a hands-down favorite of marketing professionals. And it works! It gets our attention! There is something about new that appeals to us. I think the Lord must have wired us that way. This Sunday we begin a new series at 9:30am called Experiencing God.…